. . .for taking lobbying money from Ivory Coast’s Laurent Gbagbo. I guess the comic is only funny to the Left when making fun of Bush.
Politico has the back-and-forth email exchange between the two. An excerpt:
On Thursday, in an email he shared with POLITICO, Trudeau responded to Davis:
“It doesn’t much concern me why or how you withdrew from your contract with the loathsome Laurent Gbagbo. Your view of yourself as peacemaker notwithstanding, I think it’s fair to say that Gbagbo didn’t send you $300,000 to arrange his own exit. Indeed, he murdered countless countrymen trying to avoid exactly that outcome,” Trudeau wrote.
“You may frame your resignation as a gesture of principle if you’d like, but most people know a face-saving exit strategy when they see one,” he added. “And retaining $150,000 in ‘expenses’ from a man accused of crimes against humanity certainly suggests your sense of honor had its limits.”
Trudeau closed by saying, “Sorry I can’t give you any satisfaction. There will be no correction.”





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