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fetuspizza ago

ELI5: How is Podesta powerful enough to call for a hit on a SCOTUS Justice and get away with it?

TheJesusDude ago

Bill's chief of staff, counselor to Barack, campaign manager for Hillary. In 1988, he and his brother Tony co-founded Podesta Associates, Inc., a Washington, D.C., "government relations and public affairs" lobbying firm. Now known as the Podesta Group, the firm "has close ties to the Democratic Party and the Obama administration [and] has been retained by some of the biggest corporations in the country, including Wal-Mart, BP and Lockheed Martin."

He is a big time player