140 GOP paths to Putin -- and it might have started with Jack Abramoff.

[pnwmom]

And on and on and on.

http://thegopwatchdog.com/140-paths-to-putin/

77. Jack Abramoff may be where it all starts. Russian Oil and Gas company NAFTAsib formed a shell company called Chelsea Commercial, which only listed Abramoff and Patrick Pizzella as lobbyists when it was created. The purpose of Chelsea was to promote Russian oil and trade interests in the United States. It also underwrote the trip Tom Delay and Ed Buckham made to Russia with Abramoff. Pizzella also happens to work for Trump. Buckham formed the Alexander Strategy Group to help the US Family Network funnel its money received from Naftasib. The US Family network was primarily a vehicle consisting of Buckham, Delay, Ralph Reed, CNI Board Member Grover Norquist and Abramoff. These people have been members of the Council on National Policy over the years.

78. Grover Norquist serves on the Board of the World Tax Payers Association with Arkady Murashev, and Lewis Uhler (member of Council for National Policy)

79. In November 1998, Jack Abramoff organized a meeting between Sergei Kiriyenko and Republican lawmakers. Kiriyenko is the former prime minister, and is also featured in the Dossier as part of the Trump scandal.

SNIP

[superpatriotman]

1. Kicked

Nt

[lastlib]

2. Add my kick & Rec!

This. Needs. To. Be. Seen! Far and Wide!!

[L. Coyote]

3. Trump connects to these criminals from the casino days.

[mopinko]

4. russia is playing a long game here.

and yeah, has been for quite a while, imho.

the whole fucking party is as complicit af.

[Volaris]

11. Yep it's not recent. Some of it may not be related to getting trump elected,

But its ALL related to the global-level pillage that took place in the aftermath of the Soviet State. Yes, Russia might be currently run by oligarchs and Putin sure as hell manipulated the shit out of internal electoral processes, but all of THAT exists because current and former GOP leadership and operatives put that pillage into place to enrich themselves and Rob blind the low peoples of a government that used to be our enemy.

That Trump is president is the result of screwing around with the economic aftermath of the Soviet collapse and the forced (by PaxAmericana Republicans) pillage of half of Asia.

It's the socio-political equalivant of Regan funding the Mujah hadeen(sp), the first Iraq war, and then wondering why Bin Laden wanted the Towers destroyed.

Trump is the fucking BLOWBACK of wallstreet and the Republicans pillaging the former Soviet Union.

[Sculpin Beauregard]

16. Excellent analysis!

[ProudProgressiveNow]

5. K&R nt

[csziggy]

6. K&R

[MelissaB]

7. K&R!

[Bernardo de La Paz]

8. Here's an old chart. There is so much more known now.

[pnwmom]

9. Yes -- and more every day. n/t

[calimary]

12. Congressman Eric Swalwell (D-CA) has info

https://swalwell.house.gov/russia

And:

https://swalwell.house.gov/issues/russia-trump-his-administration-s-ties

[pnwmom]

13. Go, Eric!

[dhill926]

10. kickin'....

[certainot]

14. the russians saw rw radio as a very useful tool

and i wonder how long limbaugh and hannity and sons have been unwitting tools to destroy democracy, deny global warming, etc, and generally destroy american democracy like limbaugh using a russian hack of east anglia climate scientists in 2009 to create 'climategate' and sabotage obama in copenhage, for instance. what about limbaugh trying to get the US/teabags to default on the debt?

[FuzzyRabbit]

15. How to take over a foreign nation

Do what Putin is doing - bribing most of the leaders of one of the major political parties.

Then finance their presidential and congressional campaigns, while sabotaging the other major party's campaigns. If you are clever, and many of the voters are ignorant, you can easily install your people in the foreign government. Then you can influence their government's policies to favor your nation.

Thus, your nation's interests are served without you having to go to war.

Remember a few months ago, when several congress members were briefed by US intelligence and came out of that meeting looking shocked and bewildered? And they said they could not tell what they learned? Well, they probably learned that the presidency and the leadership of both houses of congress are Russian agents.

[Sculpin Beauregard]

17. Yup