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Link to tweet
If the below article is accurate, it appears
@realDonaldTrump
seeks to trade action on legislation in exchange for financial support from the
@NRA
. That would be illegal. A felony, to be exact.
RT Atlanta
(2,517 posts)So is donnie t really asking, effectively, vlad to pay his defense?
Perseus
(4,341 posts)of money and resources to help the creature in his impeachment defense. I think everyone should know that.
The creature is so corrupt that he cannot stop breaking the law, it will get worst for him. Putin is savvy, he has to know he lost with the creature, that the creature is too much of a liability.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,328 posts)Sowing division accomplishes Putin's goals, so he may continue to fund The Dumbest Don as long as it keeps the U.S. divided and too preoccupied to help democracies around the world.
flibbitygiblets
(7,220 posts)He'll continue to be Putin's useful idiot even if he does get impeached/convicted/voted out. Because his followers aren't going anywhere. They don't care if he betrayed our country. They. Don't. Care.
dalton99a
(81,455 posts)Trump Meets With LaPierre to Discuss How N.R.A. Could Support Political Defense
By Maggie Haberman and Annie Karni
Sept. 27, 2019 Updated 6:23 p.m. ET
President Trump met in the Oval Office on Friday with Wayne LaPierre, the chief executive of the National Rifle Association, and discussed prospective gun legislation and whether the N.R.A. could provide support for the president as he faces impeachment and a more difficult re-election campaign, according to two people familiar with the meeting.
It was not clear whether Mr. Trump asked Mr. LaPierre for his support, or if the idea was pitched by the N.R.A. During the meeting, Mr. LaPierre asked that the White House stop the games over gun control legislation, people familiar with the meeting said.
It was unclear what the N.R.A.s financial support would look like, and whether it would pay for ads, as it did during Mr. Trumps 2016 presidential campaign.
Mr. LaPierre has been a leader in an aggressive campaign by gun rights advocates to influence the White House in the months since the back-to-back mass shootings in Texas and Ohio. In a series of calls and meetings, he has tried to move Mr. Trump away from proposing any sort of background check measures that he said after the mass shootings he might support.
Marie Marie
(9,999 posts)He is too stupid to live. I'm surprised he knows how to breath.
tblue37
(65,336 posts)Marie Marie
(9,999 posts)bdamomma
(63,840 posts)is desperate, and going to LaPierre so more Americans will be getting killed with guns???
Both of these thugs want favours. You do this for me, I'll do this for you. What scum. That's how I take it.
inanna
(3,547 posts)...
ffr
(22,669 posts)tblue37
(65,336 posts)Moral Compass
(1,519 posts)He truly has no sense of right and wrong.
When you view the vicious, violently amoral Roy Cohn as a mentor and role modelwell, this is what you get.
He truly thinks there was nothing wrong with that phone call and the subsequent coverup. As he also sees no problem with exchanging legislative direction for funding of his legal bills. Yet another quid pro quo.
mudstump
(342 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,783 posts)Is that getting really close to 'quid pro quo'?
coti
(4,612 posts)Takket
(21,563 posts)Thought he was a billionaire??????????
He is PATHETIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
czarjak
(11,269 posts)central scrutinizer
(11,648 posts)When he can bully, extort, steal or in some other way get some one else to pay
Takket
(21,563 posts)to pay for his lawyers, he may as well, right????
MurrayDelph
(5,294 posts)it's tax-exempt status.
(And long overdue)
Kensan
(180 posts)sort of how Congress crushed ACORN. I'm pretty sure if they look at the money trail (and the Russian honey, Maria Butina) Congress could find something that rises to the level of a felony offense.
MurrayDelph
(5,294 posts)I think losing its tax-exempt status would be a big step in that direction.
coti
(4,612 posts)sheshe2
(83,747 posts)SergeStorms
(19,199 posts)Dim Donnie has so many felonies racked up against him at this point he really has nothing to lose. LaPierre, on the other hand.....
Generic Brad
(14,274 posts)Looks like they will have to shoot some couches to see if they can shake out any change from the cushions.
Frustratedlady
(16,254 posts)It shows information is flowing into sources that can expose it to the public. It will surprise me if the Democrats even need an inquiry hearing before an impeachment vote. I doubt McConnell will even be able to block the vote in the Senate.
Get out of the way, Republicans. You are about to meet the devil who is going to lead you to your fate. Her name is Pelosi!