Mitch McConnell linked super PAC took $2.5 million from a pro-Putin Ukrainian businessman

[factfinder_77]

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[malaise]

1. As I wrote months ago

History will absolve me - they stole it.

Off to the greatest page for thee

[ananda]

7. Me too.

They stole it.

[malaise]

11. Yep

Follow the money and the appointments

[IthinkThereforeIAM]

29. I recall...

... feel free to use me as a witness.

[malaise]

43. Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaah

[Wellstone ruled]

8. Ah,we have been

vindicated,yup.

Steel dossier lurks in the background. Is this why Rinse Penus returned early? Fired up!!! Lawyered up!!!!!

[malaise]

13. Yes indeed

I've been asking how close are the Penus and Lyin' Ryan?

Mr Transportation''s arrogance re Garland was always a giveaway.

That lil leak with Lyin' Ryan covering up is also timely.

[Wellstone ruled]

17. Pallies from their College days.

Both are YGOPers.

[malaise]

19. ReTHUGs will be ReTHUGs

Where's Scott Walker in this mess - didn't he drop out of the primaries first?

[Wellstone ruled]

20. Snoty Scotty is still running for President,

if only in his mind. Shit is getting real serious in Wisconsin,people are having issues with their Medicare/Medicade coverage's. Even people on SSDI are seeing major slow downs in services.

[malaise]

21. That entire gang should be in prison

Truth will out and they will run and hide for decades

[Dustlawyer]

32. Didi they ever identify which Republican Presidential candidate had started the Steel

investigation? How did they know to have him check Russia? He specialized in Russia so they knew why they were hiring him.

[malaise]

44. Good question

Wish I knew the answer

[brush]

46. I think it started with Jeb Bush's oppo research team on trump

[Dustlawyer]

51. Whoever it was, what dish they know about Trumplethinskin links

to Russia and when did they know it? How many in the Republican Party knew it then too?

[Alice11111]

53. The Guardian reported Jeb!

Also, I think buzzfeed

[Volaris]

50. My guess would be Bush.

Nobody else in the clown car would have known where to even start making those kinds of phone calls. The old man still keeps his rolodex afaik, and that kind of inquiry would not have come cheap. As an added bonus, after Jeb was out of the race, probably the whole family was gonna vote for Hillary and from what came out unofficially, they think Trump is an obnoxious asshat conman...most Old Money does.

[Angry Dragon]

58. I thought that was Rancid Penis??

[Alice11111]

40. Of course, they stole it...again.

Since 2000, that's pretty much how the mob GOP wins, much worse this time. That is what 'preparing and planning' is for the GOP, how to manipulate and steal the elections.

[malaise]

45. +1,000

[Alice11111]

54. !

[brush]

47. Nixon, Reagan, W Bush, trump...their only legitimate win since Ike was Daddy Bush

They stole this last election and have been stealing them since Nixon's treason with Vietnam.

[emulatorloo]

2. Rec and bookmarking

[awesomerwb1]

3. Interesting. Not surprised though.

The sad thing is a lot of cheeto supporters take the russian support as a badge of honor because 'they' saved the country from Hillary.

[mr_lebowski]

12. Well, YEAH!!! Hitlery's Agenda ... Private Email Servers For All !!! And Pizza Franchises ...

That delivered children, on-demand, from the pizzeria basements ... and of course the selling of aborted baby-parts for Billion$$$ that all would've gone straight to the Clinton Foundation ... and it was SO CLOSE to being a reality, you know ... you gotta thank Pootie-Poot for Saving Us All from THOSE horrors she was all set to implement, had she 'won'.

Oh, and also ... BENGHAZI!!!1!!

[sheshe2]

4. Surprised?

Not at all. They are all in it up to their necks.

[GliderGuider]

5. Dworkin started reporting on this in February:

Link to tweet

Click through to the thread. More info, and some good pics...

[Alice11111]

41. Thete are now reports of Chaffetz being given by DT

$10 mil for leaking the Comey letter. So, he's trying to get the hell out quick. (Kos and Wash Post, I think)

The most loudly critical self righteous perps of all, and of course, they are doing far worse themselves...Hypocrite is too nice of a word.

[Scarsdale]

42. $10 mil from DT?

Little Jason had better hope the check clears, he will need it to pay a lawyer. The gop attracts thugs just like the Mafia.

[furtheradu]

6. K & R..& thanks!

[NCjack]

9. New skin in the Russia-Trump investigation. nt

[tblue37]

10. K&R for visibility. nt

[bucolic_frolic]

14. I always knew something was amiss

by the way Mitch and Ryan wouldn't talk to the press, and wouldn't be
seen with Trump

[gademocrat7]

15. K&R.

They did indeed steal it.

[Vinca]

16. Just like Watergate. Follow the money.

[onetexan]

18. LOCK HIM UP!!!

[gordianot]

22. The down ticket traitors need to go first.

Work their way up to the big fish. Democrats need to rub their noses in this filth. The GOP has new group of oligarchs to enrich on the backs of American tax payers.

[furtheradu]

23. Kick for more eyes!

Important stuff.

[chopper050]

24. Okay , now wait a second..

If this is illegal why aren't they being taken to court ? Why isn't anything happening ? So is this legal or not ?

[mucifer]

27. I thought "citizen's united" stated anyone can buy politicians as long as they do it through a PAC

[LonePirate]

28. Yeah, that's my question. Is this illegal or just an instance of money to pay back?

[brush]

49. Of course it's not legal, but the repugs control the House, Senate and the presidency

We have to hope the special counsel and the press keep up the pressure to expose it like what happened with Watergate.

There's some irony in this unfolding tableau. Comey, the one who swung the election to trump, seemed to be trying to redeem himself with his investigation into the Russian collusion with trump campaign/admin figures but got canned by the guy his Oct. letter installed into the White House.

Hoisted on his own petard.

[L. Coyote]

25. K & R - Great first day of #TrumpLeaks Week

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[dalton99a]

26. Kick.

[MedusaX]

30. Access Industries & Altep are Owned by Blavatnik.He made his $ in deal with Alfa Bank Fridman &

Renova Group Victor Vekelsberg when they sold their shared half of TNK-BP to ROSNEFT (Putin)

The legality is questionable from a RICO /Money Laundering perspective... as Blavatnik & Vekelsberg & Fridman have a history of being charged with such activities in the past.

Interesting that so much Russia related $ comes in from these 3 ... Blavatnik /Alfa Bank & Renova

[Amaryllis]

31. All that made possible with Citizens United.

[leanforward]

33. When did the pro-Putin lobbyest make that donation????

President Obama had a meeting with the group of 8. Didn't Mitch say something like "we can't make this public". In the middle of our election. The President did not make it public.

What date/month was that meeting in the middle of the election????

Mitch and his wife need to resign from office. You pick the reason.

Follow the money. That much money influences our politicians.

[C Moon]

34. They MUST have been expecting a coup of the U.S. government.

I sure hope those coming forward and standing up for the U.S., continue to do so with great fervor.

[oasis]

35. Media must confront Mitch about this. nt

[BigmanPigman]

36. All the president's men.....

I wish the turtle luck when he eventually tries to hide in his shell.

[Achilleaze]

37. Republicans selling out America to freaking Russia

Sucks deplorably

[DefenseLawyer]

38. The Koch Brothers' father got rich building oil refineries for Stalin

I don't think they ever stopped doing business in Russia. I also think we'll discover that the huge flood of Russian money to Republicans had as much to do with their Russian ties as with Trump's.

[Leghorn21]

52. I, of course, did not know this, DL - "the door is open, just walk on through, congressman -

we got it all arranged for you" - damn

[SunSeeker]

39. K & R for exposure.

[Botany]

48. It was a coup

But what about HRC's emails?

[turbinetree]

55. Have no fear the United States Supreme Court said that money is free speech

and says its OK (being snarky), even up to and including Treason, if one were to think about it on those terms

https://www.opensecrets.org/news/reports/citizens_united.php

[bresue]

56. THANK YOU factfinder_77 for posting this.

Can you explain this a little more? The more I read from Scott Dworkin's Twitter feed, the more I am confused.

These documents all look legitimate and are opposite Louise and Claude's claims without documentation. My question is if these documents are now public, why isn't the media (television) reporting any of this? I have been watching MSNBC most of the morning and all they seem to want to discuss is Dump's vacation.

Will we see more discussion of these documents this evening?

This document on McConnell is very damaging and incriminating....but how is it that he is still in the house? And not forced to resign? I would consider this breaking news, not if Dump said Israel or not to Russians.

I mean....this is serious stuff...and everyone seems to be sitting on it. Please explain more if you can why this is being kept quiet.

[furtheradu]

57. KICK! Thanks again. nt

[bdamomma]

59. wow

hopefully he will get his "just desserts" too. Stupid a$$ man.

[Alice11111]

60. This & a town hall...coal miners who voted for him were pissed

They are losing their healthcare, and they wanted to know where MM was.

We have to target this guy. Start now w ads, radio, to discredit him...and focus on his part in decimating health care.