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🗓️ 13 March 2024
⏱️ 18 minutes
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This week, Congress held a hearing on Special Counsel Robert Hur’s report on Joe Biden’s handling of classified documents. The situation is one that is closely tied with influence-peddling in the Biden family, but has Congress made that connection clear enough. Executive Director of The Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project explains.
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0:11.9 | Without a heritage, every generation starts over. |
0:15.0 | To remind the current regime. |
0:18.0 | We the people tell the governor what it is allowed to do. |
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0:32.4 | From the Heritage Foundation, this is Heritage Explains. |
0:44.3 | Thank you. Heritage Foundation, this is Heritage Explains. You probably have heard of the Watergate scandal that plague the Nixon administration. |
0:49.9 | You might have heard of the Teapot Dome scandal that tarnished the legacy of Warren G. Harding. |
0:55.8 | But I'm guessing you've never heard about Ulysses S. Grant and the Whiskey Ring scandal. |
1:01.8 | It turns out that in the 1870s, government officials colluded with whiskey distillers to commit fraud |
1:07.2 | by underreporting the amount of whiskey the distilleries were producing. |
1:11.6 | This amounted to a tax break for the distilleries and generous kickbacks for the officials. |
1:17.6 | The conspiracy had spread across multiple states and amounted to millions of dollars in evaded taxes |
1:23.6 | by the time it was discovered by a dedicated group of whistleblowers, journalists, and investigators. |
1:29.3 | While Grant was not implicated, members of his senior staff were, and the scandal was a devastating blow to his administration. |
1:37.3 | As Mark Twain said, history does not repeat, but it often rhymes. |
1:42.3 | And through the years, American officials, especially presidents, have had to answer uncomfortable |
1:47.2 | questions about the measures they did and did not take, the information they did and did not |
1:52.4 | know. |
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