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WASHINGTON Today Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel and RNC Finance Chairman Steve Wynn announced additional members of the RNCs Finance leadership team:
I am delighted to announce the addition of these longtime friends of the Party and supporters of this administration to our Finance leadership team, said Chairwoman McDaniel. Elliott Broidy, Michael Cohen, and Louis DeJoy will serve as National Deputy Finance Chairmen, and Brian Ballard, Bob Grand, Gordon Sondland, Geoff Verhoff, and Ron Weiser will serve as Regional Vice-Chairmen. Together this team will employ their extraordinary talent and understanding of Americans across the country to maintain and build upon our unprecedented fundraising success.
"Our team is dedicated to the goal of increasing the number of Republican senators and representatives in the Congress, with the firm belief that all Americans will enjoy the benefits of a better future," said Chairman Wynn. "The challenge of guiding a swollen and overreaching government to a position that serves its citizens in a truly efficient manner will be best served by the leadership our team hopes to achieve."
https://gop.com/rnc-announces-additions-to-rnc-finance-leadership-team/
Stuart Shaffer April 09 · 08:26:52 PM
I think Mr. Mueller is finding, through the investigation of Manafort/Gates/Cohen, that numerous foreign nationals laundered campaign contributions for Trump through various Republicans and their organizations (e.g. NRA et al). Some of that information will be found in the documents seized today.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/4/9/1755779/-The-reasons-for-the-Cohen-raid-are-less-about-Stormy-whether-you-believe-witches-hunting#comment_69825889
underpants
(182,988 posts)nolabels
(13,133 posts)Got this link from there, I am kind of slow sometimes, I am guessing probably a lot of people have already seen something like it
nmgaucho
(527 posts)Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)Cohen has said it. Paul Ryan has said it. Trump has said it, referring to his own real family, and others.
It really seems like a mob family with associates and hit men.
kentuck
(111,110 posts)Good on Chris!
onit2day
(1,201 posts)MontanaMama
(23,366 posts)the deep end of the pool (swamp), IMO. There's got to be all kinds of good stuff there...
The_jackalope
(1,660 posts)poboy2
(2,078 posts)Somebody had to say it!
spanone
(135,919 posts)Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)in so many ways.
Overall, republicans are engaged in absolute BETRAYAL not just of America and the truth, but also in absolute BETRAYAL of all that is good and decent.
republican moral and ethical rot is total.
Wounded Bear
(58,765 posts)shanti
(21,675 posts)They are masters of projection.
Nitram
(22,945 posts)Hillary Clinton used the term back in 1998, and it wasn't a joke. Most people did, however, laugh at it. They had not yet connected the dots.
flibbitygiblets
(7,220 posts)Nitram
(22,945 posts)mountain grammy
(26,663 posts)flying_wahini
(6,684 posts)FakeNoose
(32,854 posts)Thanks for this, kpete! This is the very big story that sometimes gets overlooked.
dameatball
(7,402 posts)Because it involves much of the GOP fundraising.
Drahthaardogs
(6,843 posts)All you need to know.
Stonepounder
(4,033 posts)a) deserting the sinking ship and announcing they are not going to run again or
b) keeping very, very quiet (I looking at YOU Mitch and Paul!)
angrychair
(8,750 posts)Who somehow managed a reduced sentence by turning evidence against the very people he bribed.
So, in summary:
two of three RNC financial vice-chairs have been either raided by the FBI and/or arrested and convicted of crimes.
oasis
(49,454 posts)workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)IMO
Nitram
(22,945 posts)Ilsa
(61,710 posts)nolabels
(13,133 posts)Intertwined and the only out they have is saying they knew nothing about it even though they deposited the checks in their bank.
They are becoming the subjects of an investigation in a system they used themselves to be unkind to others.
Ronnie kind of warned them and said it himself
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No fan of Ronnie but it's funny how he still haunts them
erronis
(15,428 posts)Panama Papers, Paradise Papers.
Back in the dark ages (10+ years ago) the only organizations that could sift through those mounds of data were the intelligence communities.
Now, each one of us can download public datasets with named names, organizations, dates, addresses, and linkages between them. While this is a huge task, there are lots of eager researchers poring over this type of material.
I'm not sure how "they" can shut us up anymore. Knowledge is power.
Enoki33
(1,589 posts)are in bed with the Russians. No wonder tRump is untouchable to them, and that they (RNC) were paying Jnrs. legal bills.
KrazyinKS
(291 posts)When all those Republicans stayed to oddly quiet, no outrage at all. It leads me to think there are a lot of dirty hands out there. That is an old trick , that is how you get people to stay quiet include them in on the action and then they can't speak up.
marble falls
(57,425 posts)orangecrush
(19,661 posts)KY_EnviroGuy
(14,498 posts)It's becoming obvious that money from foreign interests can find its way into our political campaigns without coming into the sunlight or being reported. I would suspect that billionaires and corporations around the globe are doing this and in some very sinister ways. They've probably been doing this for decades.
Not only do we need to reverse Citizens United to keep American campaign dollars relatively clean and to limit undue influence of the wealthy, I believe we also need a system in place that tests the original source of all moneys applied to campaigns.
Our current system of finding out about foreign funding purely by accident is not protecting our democracy.
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