Mitch McConnell reportedly linked to Putin, Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska and Russian companies

[yortsed snacilbuper]

Blavatnik contributed a total of $3.5 million to a PAC associated with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. Blavatnik contributed $1.5 million to the GOP Senate Leadership Fund PAC in the name of Access Industries and another $1 million in the name of AI-Altep Holdings during the 2015/2016 election season. And as of September 2017, he had contributed another $1 million this year through AI–Altep.

Blavatnik, whose family emigrated to the U.S. in the late 1970s, is a longtime business associate of Russian oligarchs Oleg Deripaska and Viktor Vekselberg, both of whom have ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Along with McConnell, Republican Senators Marco Rubio and Lindsey Graham received hefty sums from Blavatnik as well.

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[unitedwethrive]

1. Well, if the Russians want to control Trump, it only makes sense to control the GOP leaders as well.

And it’s pretty clear that none of them have been acting in the best interest of our country. So, many of us have been assuming a connection all along.

[bitterross]

19. You have a very good point.

Controlling the leaders too just makes sense. The best way to ensure you get what you want and to have them be complicit in the treason.

[Dustlawyer]

30. Add to that the hacking of the RNC's emails and you have the carrot and stick

for controlling the GOP!!!

[triron]

2. Not surprising.

[guillaumeb]

3. Reporters should ask them about these contributions at every opportunity.

Let them explain it.

[global1]

7. Has Anybody Asked McConnell About His Russian Comnections?....

If not, every time Mitch is in front of a camera - he should be asked about his Russian connections (i.e., campaign donations from Russians, etc.). For that matter - same goes for Graham & Ribio.

[Cracklin Charlie]

8. Turtle been very shy lately.

Head in shell.

[gademocrat7]

4. Treasonous bastards

[4TheArts]

5. Oh please oh please

Let this become indictable stuff. I want so much to see the disgusting KKKentucnik arrested in predawn spectacle.

[Wellstone ruled]

6. How about all the stories

involving Paul Ryan and other Rethugs playing in the same sand box.

[Delmette2.0]

9. Well, knock me over with a feather. NOT!!! n.t.

[PeeJ52]

10. This has been whispered about for a while now... When will the main stream media acknowledge?

When will they start asking some questions to these "leaders". How long have they been compromised by Russian interests? Where are our investigative reporters? Was Kruschev right when he said We will take America without firing a shot. We do not have to invade the U.S. We will destroy you from within....

[kag]

20. Not just whispered...

The original Dallas Morning News article ran in December of 2017, and it pops up on DU every couple of months. Like you, I'm wondering when the rest of the mainstream news will begin to cover it.

Rachel, where are you?

[bluecollar2]

11. So which House Committee has jurisdiction?

Surely the Majority can find a way to begin formal investigations...

[procon]

12. How long did it take the Russians to buy

so many Americans will to turn traitor for coin?

[WhiteTara]

13. He's even dirtier than that

http://eureka.news/free-parking-59/
snip

During Trump’s 2016 campaign, Jim had a meeting with MBS and later joined the Blackstone Group (Kushner’s lenders), seemingly at MBS’s urging. Then Mitch’s big payday came three weeks after Jamal Khashoggi’s assassination when Jim attended MBS’s ill-fated conference. MBS pledged $20 billion to Blackstone to be earmarked for Elaine Chao’s $1.5 trillion infrastructure plan.

snip
Jim Breyer is McConnell's brother in law and has tentacles everywhere and Mitch benefits.

[Celerity]

26. yes, the Chao sisters, Breyer, and Jared Kushner aided Putin's Russian financial

apparatus to be significant investors in both Twitter and Facebook.

Great post.



Ironically I just posted on this at another thread

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=11770232


treasonous fucks

[WhiteTara]

28. Indeed treasonous f*cks.

I wake up every day and have to look to see if he's annihilated the world, or if we "got him" when neither has happened I stumble through the day.

[zentrum]

14. KR

[Ford_Prefect]

15. Well he did campaign as a Family Values kind of guy...

Would you think this also goes a long way to explaining the sinking of an Obama SCOTUS nominee, eh?

[LiberalFighter]

16. If Blavatnik is associated with Putin he should lose his citizenship.

[Botany]

17. Oleg Deripaska was the person that Paul Manifort passed on the advanced analytics to in order to ...

.... rat fuck our elections but Russia had to have inside help and money is on Brad Parscale.

[yaesu]

18. I think russia figured out a long time ago that instead of spending billions on an arms race

all they would need is a few well placed millions to bribe the GOP, take over ameriKa, easy peasy.

[BigmanPigman]

21. This has been getting a lot of attention lately.

Hopefully Mueller is closing in on this traitor too.

https://www.dailykos.com/story/2019/1/13/1825790/-McConnell-and-the-Agents-of-Power-and-Influence

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211657130

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211668442

[tiptonic]

22. Just wondering

Just wondering if Comrades Benedict donald and mcConnell, are paid in rubbles or dollars.

[mucifer]

23. THis makes me pessimistic nt

[oasis]

24. McConnell: Gravedigger of American Democracy.

His treachery won't go undocumented by historians.

[Mr. Quackers]

25. he's doing this NOW

not 30 years ago.

[democratisphere]

27. All for Russia and Russia for All.

Certainly explains why Graham and drumpf are so chummy. McConnell takes his marching orders from drumpf and by extension putin. Corruption abounds.

[BSdetect]

29. He may well end up in prison for the rest of his life. Along with his corrupt wife.

[Scurrilous]

31. K&R