Hidden Motives behind Key GOP Leaders' Cooperation with Trump & Russia

[deminks]

https://medium.com/@leannewattphd/hidden-motives-behind-key-gop-leaders-cooperation-with-trump-russia-an-evidence-based-bdd5694b7c3b

The president is growing more erratic and dangerous by the day. Donald Trump’s sometimes subtle and often bellicose threats against Iran are on the upswing. He foments hostility at home, using civil war dog whistles that rile militia groups and rogue agents, while forecasting mob “violence” if the Republicans lose the House. Trump doubles down in his embrace of tyrants who actively spurn the free press, before creating his own fake news about hazards at the border. He secretly prepares for the potential of a new attorney general, complete with a Mueller-proof ethics-waiver, while capriciously flirting between firing or pushing AG Jeff Sessions to resign. We discussed this type of psychological unraveling in our NBC Think op-ed regarding the 25th Amendment, predicting that the president’s deterioration would hasten in response to the advancing Mueller probe. While neither of us know the president, we can confidently assert that people like Trump, with well-documented and long-standing behavior patterns consistent with narcissistic and anti-social personality disorders, are prone to becoming more paranoid, unpredictable, impulsive and dangerous when they are under extreme levels of distress.

But another danger, lurking beneath the Donald Trump horror show, is the Republican-led Congress and its failure to place appropriate checks on our nation’s executive branch. Even if the Cabinet did its job and invoked the 25th Amendment, the current Republican members of Congress would not lend their required support to relieve the president from his duties under this nation-saving measure. In addition, the GOP-led House will not impeach the president, and the Republicans in the Senate would not convict an impeached president.

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If former CIA agent, Philip Giraldi, is correct in his intelligence-based assertions, then it is reasonable to consider the possibility that ten-year’s worth of Russian-hacked RNC emails contain the coordinates for where some of these scandal-ridden bodies are buried. It is possible that some of the hacked Republican emails include discussions between current Congress members and Hastert regarding these cover-ups, as well as the blackmail game Hastert was playing with Republican leaders who may have been guilty of other related crimes or at least, embarrassing behavior. It is also possible that these hacked RNC emails include newer scandals and cover-up that do not involve Hastert. It would be extremely naïve to assume that hiding compromised behavior and playing the leverage game with fellow Congress members is limited to the period when Hastert was in office or to just his scandals. It is also rational to, at least, consider the possibility that Putin may have accessed some of these “buried bodies” through the RNC emails and that he could be using this material to threaten certain members of Congress today.

Putin could never keep up with the United States’ missile program in the ‘80s, but he knew there was a game where he could win. The former FSB head recognized America’s greatest vulnerability in its unprotected infrastructure, and thanks to Russia’s cyber sophistication and coercion prowess, Putin knew just where to strike the U.S., crippling us on a post-modern battlefield. Not only did he defeat the Democrats during the 2016 election, but he may be currently threatening the “winners” of the election, attempting to elicit their voluntary or involuntary cooperation. (This arrangement for some Republican leaders may be explicit, but for others implicit, like the unspoken understanding some people have with violent gangs that control their neighborhood — to stay away from certain places at certain time, to look the other way and never talk to the police.) And while Putin has achieved the ultimate Soviet goal of controlling an American president — a “useful idiot” — he may also have achieved something far more dangerous: If key Republican Congress members are hiding their Kremlin-linked finances or are being threatened for some other reason, making it difficult to fulfill their Constitutional duty to provide oversight of the executive branch, then Putin has made a mockery of the democratic system we cherish and has set us on a collision course with authoritarianism.

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[Liberalhammer]

1. Closet GOP homosexuals

In have no doubt there are a few ANTI LGBT in the closet.

[montanacowboy]

2. We have been thinking this for 2 yrs

When they hacked the DNC they ALSO hacked the RNC

Image what they got from that! Every bit of dirt on Lady Lindsey Graham, Ryan, McConnell and the whole fucking dirty bunch.

Remember that video that came out a while ago about Kevin McCarthy saying they were taking Russian $$ and Old Ryan said to shut up and "keep it in the family"

the Republican Party is dirty down to their roots and the entire bunch needs to be frog marched off to prison for a long goddamn time.

When will we do something about this?

[TheRealNorth]

3. This is my conspiracy theory

I never bought the story that Scott Walker ran out of money and that's why he had to quit the presidential race. The Russkies had the dirt on him and got him to go away.

Remember, the RNC was being run by Reince Priebus and other from the WI GOO between 2013-2016.

[Scruffy1]

4. Nice believable theory.

But we need hard evidence to do anything with it.