Cohen says the RNC took illegal donations from foreign nationals, and he has the receipts

[nmgaucho]

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[Demonaut]

1. he's playin us

[shanny]

3. or he's trying like hell to stay out of prison.

How stupid would a man have to be, to try to avoid a jail term he earned for lying...by lying again?

(fwiw, I'm certain tRump and fam are that stupid; I don't think anyone else is)

[malaise]

18. Forget not that he was a Deputy Finance Chair

It's quite possible

[greymattermom]

27. He knows about the finances.

So let him tell what he knows about the RNC and Trump's taxes. The only way they could prove him wrong is to produce the documents.

[True Blue American]

37. He has the receipts.

[malaise]

38. I hope so

[uponit7771]

23. +1, he doesn't want to go to jail ... this is some stuff he should've came up with long ago seeing

... he knows Red Don wasn't going to pardon him.

I wonder why the change of heart

[Andy823]

25. He might have been afraid if Putin

If the money was Russian, and a lot of it probably was, Putting has a habit of getting rid of people who go against him.

[KPN]

33. Why do you think that? Just curious.

[Leghorn21]

2. Man, I thought we'd never hear from Cohen again, and how depressed was I? EXTREMELY

Cohen and Steve Wynn and ELLIOT BROIDY were finance deputies for the RNC, and I have no details on Wynn, but Broidy is as dirty as they get, and the Feds in CA are investigating him (no doubt, Mr. Mueller handed off the case to them, though I don’t know that for a fact).

I have assumed for a long time that, just like money flowed into Cohen’s LLC, it flowed freely into the RNC coffers - and I also assumed that Cohen knew everything about those transactions...and I’m fkn THRILLED to think that we’ll get the deets on this, oh PLEASE

It would be killer

LET’S GO HERE

[triron]

5. I am with you on this.

[Leghorn21]

17. Right on, my friend -

I just googled to see if RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel was ever interviewed by Mr. Mueller & Co - apparently not. Surely she knows SOMETHING about how her finance committee works??!?

Let’s go here Cohen, let’s GO

[dawg day]

10. Steve Wynn resigned over "sexual misconduct" charges

So, surprise, he's just as corrupt as the rest of them.

[lagomorph777]

43. Cohen's the gift that keeps on giving.

I hope he can produce the goods!

[stopbush]

4. I have said this all along: the entire R Congressional leadership

was in on the collusion with tRump and the Russians.

[not fooled]

6. Wow, GOPee

Not just a National, but an INTERNATIONAL organized crime operation!

Lock them up!

[DallasNE]

7. Time For Talk Is Over

Show me the receipts.

[Hekate]

9. Apparently, Cohen has them. Remember? He saves *everything*

I hope he has good protection

[rusty quoin]

8. When he worked for Trump he lied at Trump's direction.

He was Trump's lawyer willingly to lie for Trump. Now here's the good one.

Trump is to be believed but his past lawyer is not because he lied protecting Trump, ,,,I'm tripping over my sentences and it is unbelievable.

[Vinca]

11. If true, that's a big deal.

[DeminPennswoods]

12. Cohen was the deputy RNC finance committee chairman

If anyone would know who was donating, he'd be one of the few who does.

[lindysalsagal]

13. It's all been sitting out in plain sight this entire time: full bore gop treason: dallas news

https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2018/05/08/putins-proxies-helped-funnel-millions-gop-campaigns

Editor's note May 8, 2018: This column originally published December 15, 2017. New allegations about $500k in payments from a Russian oligarch made to Trump attorney Michael Cohen have placed it back in the news.

As Special Counsel Robert Mueller's team probes deeper into potential collusion between Trump officials and representatives of the Russian government, investigators are taking a closer look at political contributions made by U.S. citizens with close ties to Russia.

Buried in the campaign finance reports available to the public are some troubling connections between a group of wealthy donors with ties to Russia and their political contributions to President Donald Trump and a number of top Republican leaders. And thanks to changes in campaign finance laws, the political contributions are legal. We have allowed our campaign finance laws to become a strategic threat to our country.

In 2015-16, everything changed. Blavatnik's political contributions soared and made a hard right turn as he pumped $6.35 million into GOP political action committees, with millions of dollars going to top Republican leaders including Sens. Mitch McConnell, Marco Rubio and Lindsey Graham.

In 2017, donations continued, with $41,000 going to both Republican and Democrat candidates, along with $1 million to McConnell's Senate Leadership Fund.

[KPN]

34. Yup, and they are intent on normalizing it. As long as a single D takes any foreign $, they will

succeed in doing so.

We can't even get a finding of criminal collusion despite all the evidence, does anyone think we're really going to oust GOP leadership over this?

[lindysalsagal]

35. I say nail everyone.

[KPN]

36. Me too ... but I'm not holding my breath.

[CharleyDog]

39. There was a time when I believed Mueller's investigation would bring down

many GOP corrupt leaders (and Dumpo) but now...

Now, I think our inability to win the Senate in 2018 has caused us to finally go over the cliff. More judges for RWingers and more voter suppression/gerrymandering - the Supreme Court in RW hands - they will all mostly get away with it.

[KPN]

42. It is hard to remain optimistic, for sure.

[Freethinker65]

41. Agreed.

[triron]

14. knr

[bluestarone]

15. KICK

EVERYTHING needs to be brought forward! Each and every nail is needed in tRUMPS coffin!!!

[triron]

16. knr

[triron]

19. knr

[triron]

20. knr

[DFW]

21. If true, and if there's a reason he hasn't turned this over to prosecutors already

I'd love to hear it.

Even so, if it is true, I'd love for him to turn it all over to prosecutors NOW.

[Baitball Blogger]

22. +1

[samnsara]

30. yesterday someone on the great TV said the files were on a drive that had just

...been returned to him by the FBI..

[CharleyDog]

40. Yes, I read that too. The FBI missed this? or purposefully ignored it?

Or it's all desperate maneuvering by Cohen?

[triron]

24. BIG.

[samnsara]

26. ..and then there was the time the trump spawn sent letters to australia asking for...

...donations...

[watoos]

28. Would be a nail in the coffin if he has tapes.

Pretty hard to deny tapes or as Groucho used to say, "who are you going to believe, me, or your lying eyes?

[GoCubsGo]

29. If this is true, it is not at all surprising.

The GOP is rotten to the core, regardless of Cohen and his motives for claiming what many of us have suspected for years.

[FakeNoose]

31. Maybe this is BETTER than the Mueller Report

Even if it isn't, we still don't know when we're finally going to see Mueller's report.
But Cohen is willing to share this NOW. This can bring down the entire Republican Party.

[samnsara]

32. so who gets these now?