Famed anti-Trump actress Rosie O'Donnell may find herself in hot water over a tweet she posted yesterday that offered $2 million each to GOP senators Jeff Flake and Susan Collins in exchange for a no vote on the tax bill. This, obviously, is a very serious crime and there is a chance that Rosie will be prosecuted for it. It looks like she attempted to bribe two senators, which is totally unacceptable.
I don't know what Rosie was thinking here. Even if Flake and Collins were on the fence, they would come under scrutiny if they had voted no after seeing this tweet. They would have to officially reject this offer in order to not fall under suspicion. I am not a fan of either senator, but they are not stupid and neither of them would have accepted this offer. Even the dirtiest senator ever would not have accepted such an obvious bribe. It would be the height of stupidity to do so when the offer is out in public!
Rosie also seems somewhat deranged. Shes willing to commit a major crime in order to derail the tax bill because it will let the "SUOER RICH" (sic) kill Americans? I'm not a huge expert on taxes but I am pretty sure doubling my standard deduction isn't going to kill me. But it seems that Rosie literally believes that this bill will cause people to die. If that's the case then perhaps she will get off if she is prosecuted on a plea of insanity!
Speaking of prosecution, will it happen? I don't know. I'm not a lawyer but it really does seem like Rosie attempted to bribe two public officials. I'm pretty sure that if she had walked into the office of a Senator with a briefcase filled with $2 million and said the same thing if the Senator had turned her in she's be in chains right now.
But since the offer happened on Twitter, publicly, Rosie might be able to claim that she wasn't serious and it was just a joke. The text of the tweet kinda shoots that defense down since she said "no shit 2 million cash each". I wonder though since she didn't tweet at them directly if she might have some defense. There is no evidence that either senator follows Rosie or would see her tweets, despite them being public. That might save her from prosecution.
All that being said though, even if Rosie isn't prosecuted what she did here was disgusting. Even if she was joking, and I don't think she was, bribery of public officials is not something you joke about. And if the offer was serious, then she tried to subvert the will of the people in order to stop a tax bill authored by the majority party. That's the exact kind of corruption that everyone on the left always complains about but this time it's out in the open for everyone to see. It is not ok and if there aren't legal penalties for what she did, there should at least be some kind of retribution. I don't usually support boycott movements but in this case one should happen immediately.
Finally, this probably stems from Rosie O'Donnell's long standing feud with Donald Trump. They both have hated each other for years and Rosie has long stated that she wants Trump gone. It's pretty clear that Rosie has let her hate for Trump consume her totally because she put herself into legal danger just to attack a piece of legislation he supports. Whatever you think of Trump you have to admit that he's really good at causing his enemies to make unforced errors like this just because they hate him so much...
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