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meow2u3

(24,772 posts)
Fri May 19, 2017, 11:33 AM May 2017

It Goes Deeper Than Trump: FBI Told House Republican Russian Spies Were Recruiting Him

In 2012, the FBI warned Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) that Russian spies were trying to recruit him. This new report takes aim at the "just joking" defense made by Speaker Paul Ryan and Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy in regards to the explosive report that in June of 2016 they were discussing Putin paying Donald Trump.

New reporting Friday morning in the New York Times takes aim at the “just joking” defense taken by Speaker Paul Ryan and Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy in regards to the explosive report that in June of 2016 they were discussing Putin paying Donald Trump.

In 2012, the FBI warned Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) that Russian spies were trying to recruit him, officials told the New York Times, which notes, “He is one of President Trump’s staunchest allies on Capitol Hill.”

“… the F.B.I. has for years viewed Russian spies, sometimes posing as diplomats, as having a hand in Washington.”

On Wednesday, the Washington Post published an astonishing story backed up with an audio recording in which Kevin McCarthy told Paul Ryan and other Republicans in the room that he thought Russian President Vladimir Putin paid Republican Donald Trump and Dana Rohrabacher.

“There’s two people I think Putin pays: Rohrabacher and Trump,” McCarthy told his Republican colleagues.

http://www.politicususa.com/2017/05/19/house-gop-told-fbi-targeted-russian-spies-suggests-mccarthys-comment-joke.html

No wonder the repunks are trying to stonewall the Russiagate investigation--they're all in on the conspiracy!
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It Goes Deeper Than Trump: FBI Told House Republican Russian Spies Were Recruiting Him (Original Post) meow2u3 May 2017 OP
So which one ISN'T being investigated for colluding with Russia? mhw May 2017 #1
Great post meow2u3. "They are all in on the conspiracy!" mhw May 2017 #2
Yeap.... R is for Russian​ uponit7771 May 2017 #3
Therein lies the problem: 45/2016 Election Hack is just the tip of an iceberg whose base is deep & MedusaX May 2017 #4
 

mhw

(678 posts)
2. Great post meow2u3. "They are all in on the conspiracy!"
Fri May 19, 2017, 12:38 PM
May 2017

I hope they ALL go down together for what they have done to The United Stayes of America.

The entire complicit GOP should be removed .

As goes Trump's Ms Universe rules;

"If the winner cannot fulfill their duties, the runner up will take their place" ..as leader of the great USA.

The whole damn GOP rigged election 2017 should be voided and the runner up in the god-forsaken
Electorial College vote should be given the position of president.

I cannot think of anything else that would be a more righteous admonishing of Trump's criminal organization.

Sieze his properties & jail them all.
Then sieze the seats of power of our goverment that they also stole .

Everyone complicit needs to be removed.
The Presidency & his Cabinet & all his executive orders should be declared void.

Start from f'king Nov 8, 2016 & strip this fraud admin of everything.
Thanks

MedusaX

(1,129 posts)
4. Therein lies the problem: 45/2016 Election Hack is just the tip of an iceberg whose base is deep &
Fri May 19, 2017, 12:47 PM
May 2017

Wide..

Those who naively believe that all of this happened just because of 45 are missing the big picture...

45 happened because of the slow pervasive building of an internal network of KGOP who have become dependent upon the campaign funding support of russian $$$$$....

As such, it does not matter what gets hung around a few KGOP necks.. ..
playing a short sighted surface game to regain some political power in 2018
will not eliminate the power & influence of russian or other $$$$ on the system itself...
nor will it provide an opportunity to undo all of the damage that has already occurred...
much less that which will occur between now & 2018 /2020.
Bactine a kiss & a band aid is no match for that which is metastasizing rapidly.

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