“The Right Side of History” is a podcast dedicated to exploring current events through a historical lens and busting left-wing myths about figures and events of America’s past.
On this week’s episode, we discuss investigations by special prosecutors, which didn’t start with Robert Mueller’s probe of President Donald Trump.
In 1875, President Ulysses Grant named the first special prosecutor to investigate the Whiskey Ring scandal and later fired him. Since then, several independent investigators—sometimes called special counsels, special prosecutors, or independent counsels—have been named to probe a presidential administration when a perceived conflict of interest occurs about the executive branch investigating itself.
These sleuths played a prominent role in key scandals ranging from Watergate to Monica Lewinsky. Click here to read about a history of special counsels. And listen as Hans von Spakovsky, senior legal fellow with The Heritage Foundation and a former Justice Department lawyer, joins us to talk about these prosecutors through the years.
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Today, even with President Trump’s victory, leftist elites have their tentacles in every aspect of our government.
The Daily Signal’s own Tyler O’Neil exposes this leftist cabal in his new book, The Woketopus: The Dark Money Cabal Manipulating the Federal Government.
In this book, O’Neil reveals how the Left’s NGO apparatus pursues its woke agenda, maneuvering like an octopus by circumventing Congress and entrenching its interests in the federal government.
You can read the first chapter of this new book for FREE in this eBook, The Woketopus: Chapter One using the secure link below.
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