The Kawhi Leonard scandal is also, indirectly, a Clinton scandal

This could get pretty funny.

So, Kawhi. The tl;dr is that Steve Ballmer and the Los Angeles Clippers gave him $29 million for a "no-work contract with a now-bankrupt environmental company as a form of payment to circumvent the NBA’s salary rules."

The company is called Aspiration. Now, where have I heard that name before? Oh, right - from the guy the Democrats put in charge of "Project 2029," a longtime Clintonite.

[Andrei Cherny's] most recent project before this was a scandal-ridden corporate venture. For nine years, Cherny was the chief executive of celebrity-backed fintech firm Aspiration, which claimed to be democratizing investing by making it affordable for ordinary people and, in the process, being “in the business of fighting the climate crisis.”

In reality, as a series of exposés from ProPublica and others made clear, the firm sold itself through pathological deception: it boasted that it had planted thirty-five million trees, but counted twenty-three million that hadn’t actually been planted; it claimed that it had five million customers, but the actual number was a little less than six hundred thousand; it let customers round each purchase up to pay for planting a tree, but often pocketed many of the proceeds; it rewarded purchases from companies it deemed sustainable, but were in reality often pollutive; it trumpeted the chance to pay no fee on its investment fund, but actually charged a higher fee than many better performing funds; and far from being “one hundred percent fossil-fuel free,” that fund invested least in renewable energy while owning shares in a number of dirty companies.

The podcast that broke the Kawhi news, Pablo Torre Finds Out, goes into Cherny and Aspiration's political connections at length, and plays an ad Bill Clinton cut for Cherny when the latter was running for Congress. "He's innovative. He's creative. So, I trust him to get our economy going, and you should, too."