32 Political Scandals That Seem Like Fiction

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32 Political Scandals That Seem Like Fiction

Especially in recent years, there’s an idea that political scandals are stupider than ever. Sure, we might truly be scraping rock bottom at the moment, I’ll give you that. But that doesn’t mean that politicians of the past were sterling icons of civility and good reason.

There’s plenty of political scandals so weird, so strange or so downright stupid that they, too, seem like they could have been pulled from the pages of an as-yet unwritten Veep episode. Redditors collected suggestions of some of the dumbest political scandals in history, and you can read below for some of the dumbest things our so-called best and brightest have gotten up to.

EastValuable9421 1y ago Edited 1y ago In canada a bunch of covid money was redirected to a network of extreme Christian men so they could start businsses all over western Canada. It's like a cult and they have strict rules. The governments who stole the cash were caught but nothing happened, there is even a paper on it. Edited for more info The religious sec is called Plymouth Brethren Christian Church. I noticed a few companies pop up on my radar in my industry that had faceless marketing and a very very shady backlink network. They all evaporated when this
jhwheuer . 1y ago A SCOTUS judge presiding over trials that involve his wife, after being found out to basically live off wealthy 'friends'. Fire his corrupt behind already.
PSquared1234 1y ago SharpieGate, a.k.a. the Hurricane-Dorian- Alabama controversy. Then President Trump accidentally accidentally included Alabama in a list of states that would be impacted by incoming hurricane Dorian, Rather than admit he made a mistake, he instead later showed reporters of a hurricane track that had been altered with a black Sharpie marker to include Alabama, as well as making NOAA retroactively report that Alabama had been included in the initial warnings.
N/PLACE knockatize . 1y ago Eliot Spitzer leaving his socks on while banging his expensive call girl, and structuring his financial transactions to hide it. Pretty brass- onions for the Sheriff of Wall Street to pull that one.
1y ago Gary Hart, the Democratic frontrunner, banging a model on a yacht named Monkey Business. You can't make this stuff up, folks.
xz1224 . 1y ago South Korea's president got ousted because she was part of a religious cult that was running everything behind the scenes.
willoconnelly 1y ago Operation Bid Rig in New Jersey. In 2009, more than sixty people were arrested including at least twelve elected officials. It started out fairly normal. Politicians taking bribes from developers for favorable contracts and stuff like that. Busts like that happen all the time. This was a little bigger and a few higher profile names, but mostly a difference in scale, not type. What made this one different, though, was how these bribes came about. As they got into the money laundering portion of the investigation, it turned out that the way a lot of the bribes
-Kyphul . 1y ago Pizza Gate. I mean стоп, a secret dungeon under a pizza shop that is supposedly backed by a democrat deep state?
TBTabby ® 1y ago The Pig War: A farmer shot another farmer's pig on disputed territory, and it escalated to the brink of war between the US and England, complete with troops being deployed from both sides.
samurai_for_hire . ly ago From 2018 to 2020, Belgium had no government. Not much changed.
Oni_K . 1y ago Dick Cheney realizing that the country has elected a very useful idiot, and then spending Bush's entire presidency figuring out ways to mislead the country in ways that were profitable to him.
mguants 1y ago This is pretty tame by Chicago standards, but I'll just copy paste from Wikipedia because it's still so insane to me: In 2003, then-Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley ordered the overnight bulldozing of Meigs Field's runway without notice, ending operations and converting the airport into a park. The move shocked and disappointed aviation communities, and some have seen it as an example of mayoral overreach. The bulldozers gouged six Xs into the runway, rendering it unusable.
NoTeslaForMe . 1y ago On the tragic end of the scale, there's the mass deaths at Jonestown and the perpetrator's ties to the San Francisco city government, followed days later by the assassinations of the mayor and Harvey Milk.
Brickie78 . 1y ago Jeremy Thorpe. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorpe affair It's got everything from bungling hitmen accidentally whacking the pet dog, to gay sex, to hovercraft.
DrHowardCooperman 1y ago A utility company bribes the speaker of the Ohio house with $60 million to pass legislation to provide $1 billion in subsidies for two old nuclear power plants. It is so audaciously corrupt it would have to be fiction, right? Nope. Welcome to the very real scandal of House Bill 6.
cloudofbastard . 1y ago The prime minister of the UK having a scandal about fucking a dead pig's head! It was so crazy, especially because there had been a black mirror episode revolving around a similar premise released quite soon before it.
 . 1y ago Marion Barry, former Washington DC mayor. The scandal part was he was popped by the feds smoking crack in a hotel room, and ultimately sentenced to prison for six months. The unbelievable part is several years later he was re-elected mayor of DC.
realinvalidname . 1y ago Abscam. FBI agents dressed up as Arab oil sheiks to offer bribes to US congressmen. A bunch of them took the deal. Six reps and one senator, plus various other officials, were convicted. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abscam
nonsensepineapple . 1y ago The Iran-Contra scandal is pretty wild. I'm surprised I haven't seen it mentioned yet.
dcrico20 . ly ago The goat George Santos
 . 1y ago The Bridgegate scandal in New Jersey in 2013. It involved Governor Chris Christie's administration orchestrating lane closures on the George Washington Bridge as political retribution against the mayor of Fort Lee, who didn't endorse Christie's reelection bid.
res30stupid 1y ago John Stonehouse. Caught up in creative accounting of firms he established after he lost ministerial roles and related pay, this former Member of Parliament and head of the British Post Office decided to fake his own death so he could run off with his mistress to Australia, after embezzling a shit- ton of money. But his method of faking his death was so absurd - leaving his clothes on the beach and swimming out to sea, to make it look like he had either drowned or was attacked by a shark - was so absurd that it wasn't believed.
tubbstosterone 1y ago A US Vice President shot his buddy in the face while hunting birds with clipped wings. Then had the friend apologize on national TV.
surefirelongshot . 1y ago Four seasons landscaping .. need | say more.
Mutxarra 1y ago The mayor of Badalona being stopped for speeding under the influence and being outside of his confinement area during the pandemic and then biting a police officer.
natebradyy 1y ago How about that time the major telecoms took over 400 BILLION dollars to install fiber optics in homes, schools and libraries across the entire country and just....didn't? The money was just reinvested in the companies to expand overseas and pay legal fees fighting against competitors with fiber plans and blocking future expansion. Here is 400 billion dollars, please use it to give us all good internet Ok Hey, where's that high speed internet you were gonna put in? Oh we decided that was way too expensive, it would cost like 400 billion and we just don't have
Swimming_Crazy_444 . 1y ago South Carolina's republican Governor Mark Sanford went missing for 6 days, his press secratary said he was hiking the Appalachian Trail....he had a girlfriend in Argentina.
rakkadimus 1y ago Iceland's minister of finance was found in the Panama papers and the Ashley Madison leak. The whole government dissolved and a new election was planned. Не made a campaign video where he decorated his kids birthday cake. The country voted him in as Prime minister in the next election. This is just one of that guys scandals. Не just became Prime minister, AGAIN! After he had to step down as minister of finance, AGAIN! Because he sold a nationalised bank to his father at a family discount. Instead of leaving like most people wanted he just traded
bigbrother2030 a 1y ago Tractorgate - a British MP was caught watching porn in the Commons, and claimed he was trying to find pictures of tractors
da_choppa . 1y ago Before he was a talk show host, Jerry Springer was the mayor of Cincinnati. Не was caught soliciting a prostitute. How was he caught? Не paid her with a check.
SOWED . 1y ago Anthony Weiner being unable to stop sending women photos of his...weiner
Coded-influx . 1y ago Toronto mayor caught smoking Crack and spiraling into political rants on camera.

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