Mitch McConnell is a Russian Asset.

[onecaliberal]

This doesn’t mean he’s a spy, but neither is it a flip accusation. Russia attacked our country in 2016. It is attacking us today. Its attacks will intensify in 2020. Yet each time we try to raise our defenses to repel the attack, McConnell, the Senate majority leader, blocks us from defending ourselves.

Let’s call this what it is: unpatriotic. The Kentucky Republican is, arguably more than any other American, doing Russian President Vladimir Putin’s bidding.



https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/mitch-mcconnell-is-a-russian-asset/2019/07/26/02cf3510-afbc-11e9-a0c9-6d2d7818f3da_story.html#click=https://t.co/KuAIjV8bmv

[malaise]

1. Get thee to the greatest page

to expose MoscowMitch

[iamthebandfanman]

18. can i just say...

you know, for as long as ive been around DU and seen you around for all these years...
that damn fake bug gif got me again just now. darn you. lol

[malaise]

22. hahahahha

Lil bug has a history - protest

[volstork]

2. The "tell" for me

was his refusal to allow hearings for Garland. He knew the fix was in.

It's TREASON.

[onecaliberal]

3. Agree. They've done nothing but protect and consolidate

Their ability to cheat, lie, and steal another election.

The House has passed more than 100 pieces of legislation to help Americans, that no neck piece of shit has the balls to call himself the grim reaper. People are too stupid to believe him.

[triron]

5. Yes NOT just 'unpatriotic'!

[uponit7771]

42. +1

[Kid Berwyn]

4. They don't call him "Moscow Mitch" for nothing.

The traitor earns it.

[SunSeeker]

6. Excellent piece by Dana Milbank. nt

[Pepsidog]

7. He is as are many Republicans.

[bucolic_frolic]

8. (R) Russia Party

[FM123]

10. Exactly!

Why don't they just be honest and call themselves Russpublicans.....

[Salviati]

11. mitch mconnell (Я - Moscow)

[certainot]

40. tea party was evidence of russian ability to manipulate republican talk radio a decade ago

as goes talk radio so goes the GOP

[czarjak]

9. He just loves a good game of...

Whack-a-Mole!

[sandensea]

12. Soviet Moskvitch:

Russian Moskmitch:

[onecaliberal]

13. Why doesnt the media ask all those in the congress making millions where its coming from?

Tell the America people who owns these rat bastards.

[sandensea]

23. Good question - all the more so given the source (suspected narco Jimmy Chao)

Perhaps the conglomerates than own most media these days don't want it exposed, as they may often be at least a little complicit themselves.

That's another difference between us and most of the rest of the developed world (even some developing countries):

In many other countries, any public official found to be living unusually well for his/her salary, family circumstances, or other easily explained gains (like a successful book, speaking fees, etc.), is promptly subjected to media scrutiny - and possibly formal inquires as well.

Even excessive speaking fees are frowned on in many other places, as they can easily be turned into back-door bribery (I "speak" to Acme Petroleum for $200,000 - and, lo and behold, a month later that pesky bill Acme wanted gets passed).

Such "coincidences" usually become major scandals elsewhere - whether or not there was corrupt intent.

Here, it's bidness as usual.

[Evolve Dammit]

24. Great question. Let's see where the NRA funneled Russian money went (Rachel?)

[onecaliberal]

29. The NRA gave dumpco at least 32 million in 2016. They also donated to most republicans.

They funneled money from Russian oligarchs through the NRA to republicans. Thanks to Citizens united this is basically legal.

[Evolve Dammit]

46. Thanks. I didn't know that. It still should be called out, specifying names and amounts?

Not sure how hard that would be? I imagine they covered their tracks well.

[onecaliberal]

49. They have to report fundraising totals on fundraising disclosure forms.

They didn’t try to hide what the NRA gave republicans.

[Evolve Dammit]

51. If it comes from Russians via NRA, isn't that a huge problem? If not, it sure should be.

[onecaliberal]

52. Yes of course it should be intolerable. Thanks to citizens united and superpac's

It’s basically legal.

[Hortensis]

28. Moscow Mitch has been Chinese business's man in DC for over 30 years,

a relationship cemented the old-fashioned way by marriage to a daughter of one of the Chinese billionaires with whom he had a mutually beneficial relationship. She brought wealth far, far beyond anything he'd known to the marriage. She also inherited quite a bit when her father died fairly recently. I forget what I read, but seemingly she received more than some of her siblings, raising eyebrows and speculation as to why.

Fwiw, Moscow Mitch has always been famous among those who know him in being far more interested in personal power than personal wealth. It's possible that, like so many others, coming to be surrounded by enormous wealth in DC caused him to eventually feel uncomfortably poor and wanting more. If so, he fixed that in a way that made him immediately and legally wealthy, money laundering through marriage.

[sandensea]

31. To be fair to him, it ain't illegal to strike gold at the altar

But it is illegal to knowingly receive proceeds from the cocaine trade - even if it is your father-in-law.

Or father outlaw, as the case may be.

[Hortensis]

32. Being fair to a man who's sold his influence for over 30 years

would be promising him ethical investigations and trials. So far as public knowledge goes, Moscow Mitch seems to have kept his activities officially legal, sometimes by writing and amending laws to make them so. Such as the law allowing Russians to donate unlimited dark money to his super PAC because donating to him directly is illegal.

From what I've read, the incidental cocaine discovered on one of his father-in-outlaw's cargo ships wouldn't be too illegal for the to be interested in, just far too small potatoes.

[sandensea]

33. If only.

Bitchy Mitchy may not be too big to fail - but he certainly seems to be too big to jail.

[PatrickforO]

14. Well, based on his actions, I'm going to have to say that I think McConnell

is more than just a Russian asset. I honestly think he is a traitor.

[onecaliberal]

39. Definitely a traitor.

[47of74]

15. Time for the daily reminder that the Senate Majority Leader is Moscow Mitch

And I will fucking well call him that forever.

[paleotn]

16. Treason

McConnell is complicit with the overthrow of part of the US government by assisting in rigging the 2016 presidential election. For all practical purposes, the executive branch is now controlled by a foreign power. A soft coup.

[onecaliberal]

17. Exactly. The media is complicit.

[ElementaryPenguin]

43. Precisely, paleotn!

[smirkymonkey]

19. It's pretty obvious.

Which is why I think Mitch is so frightened of Democrats being in power and investigating this whole Russian mess in earnest. He will spend the rest of his life in prison.

[Ferrets are Cool]

20. It used to mean something to be a Russian asset. Now, it just means you have

an R behind your name.

[onecaliberal]

21. Long gone are the days when Mittens called Russia, Americas biggest foreign threat.

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[Evolve Dammit]

27. If that's the case (and I also think it may be a large %), it needs exposure before 2020

I can't get Kevin McCarthy's quote to leave my brain, about the "two people I think Putin pays" (Rohrbacher and Trump). I think he said "swear to god" before Paul Ryan jumped in about it staying "in the family." Scum. All of them.

[hughee99]

38. I know what is best for America, so anyone who disagrees with me

Is advocating for something that is not in America’s best interests, and therefore, something that benefits our enemies. I’m not saying we have to agree on everything, but if we don’t, you’re doing the work of our enemies.

[GoCubsGo]

25. He and his wife are also highly likely Chinese assets, as well.

I'd bet money on it.

[bdamomma]

48. let them

move to China.

[Hortensis]

26. Yes. Demonstrably and deliberately.

[samplegirl]

30. If this would of

been a democrat that would of be locked up long ago!

[Perseus]

37. We need to stop thinking that way, start demanding from our elected officials to do the right thing

Democrats need to become more aggressive and not allow republicans to go after Democrats if they have not shown the same "courage" against one of their own when it merited.

When we say "a democrat would have..." it stops us right there, we go into "well, nothing happens to republicans", and all that has to stop.

[PandoraAwakened]

34. K & R. n/t

[Mc Mike]

35. Also, a Russian Asshat.

[Perseus]

36. Let's call this what it is: TREASON

Unpatriotic is to subtle of a term for Moscow-Mitch, the reality is treason. Whether he conspired directly or not with Russia he became an accessory when he stopped Obama from bringing the issue to the citizens. Lets pretend there was no direct connection, he still helped the enemy attack this country, if that is not treason I don't know what is.

It is exactly what Benedict Arnold did, the only difference are the times and the technology.

[sprinkleeninow]

41. Mitch McConnell is a Russian Ass

et.


Right-o? Ain't that how the title reads?

[Eyeball_Kid]

44. Moscow Mitch cut a deal with Deripaska. Aluminum plant in Kentucky. Presumably, big money.

So what is Mitch doing in return? Any guesses?

Moscow Mitch is compromised. He's now a Russian asset, and has been so since at least 2016. He's as traitorous as Trumpy. He has no loyalty to his country. He is only loyal to money.

[onecaliberal]

45. Russia is looking to go into other states with these plants holding the states hostage

Over jobs.

[bdamomma]

47. Vote his ass out

come Kentuckians throw his ass out!! He's vile and he has been vile for a long time.

[ck4829]

50. K&R