Rosie O'Donnell Offers to Pay GOP Senators to Vote No on Tax Bill

Rosie O'Donnell is offering Sens. Susan Collins and Jeff Flake $2 million each to vote no on the Republican reform tax bill.

And the apparently tongue-in-cheek overture has conservatives crying foul, accusing the liberal, Trump-trashing comic of attempting to bribe public officials.

Late Tuesday, O'Donnell fired off a somewhat profane tweet to Collins, a Maine Republican, and Flake, an Arizona Republican, laying out her offer:

so how about this
i promise to give
2 million dollars to senator susan collins
and 2 million to senator jeff flake

if they vote NO
NO I WILL NOT KILL AMERICANS
FOR THE SUOER RICH

DM me susan
DM me jeff

no shit
2 million
cash
each

— ROSIE (@Rosie) December 20, 2017

Carl Arbogast, a writer for the conservative political blog Red State, responded: "Offering to pay a public official so they'll vote a certain way? There's a word for that, Rosie. BRIBE.

"It's a big no-no in politics, and while many politicians have surely gotten away with accepting bribes, many others have spent years in prison for taking them."

Conservative writer David Harsanyi of The Federalist interpreted O'Donnell's offer even more severely, tweeting "ARREST ROSIE."

According to 18 USCS prec § 201(b), whoever directly or indirectly, corruptly gives, offers or promises anything of value to any public official with intent to influence that person's official act will be fined for the offence of bribery.

ARREST ROSIE https://t.co/9it4wrcLAh

— David Harsanyi (@davidharsanyi) December 20, 2017

O'Donnell — star of such big-screen comedies as "A League of their Own" and the raunchy R-rated sex farce "Exit to Eden" — regularly comments on political issues and has been in an brusque war of words with Donald Trump for years.

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