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1. Yep. Republicans know they can get away with breaking the law.

They'll get away with it like they always do and their base will love them for it.

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2. What does Russia have on Mnuchin?

BY BESS LEVIN
JANUARY 29, 2019

... lawmakers would .. like to know why Trump’s Treasury secretary decided to lift sanctions on companies with links to Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska, who just so happens to have strong ties to both Putin and Paul Manafort. By way of an answer, Steve Mnuchin told lawmakers to just “trust” the president when it comes to Russia ...

... California Representative Jackie Speier, a member of the House Intelligence Committee, sent a letter to Steve Mnuchin .. seeking information about a deal he reportedly struck in 2017 with Ukrainian-born U.S. billionaire Leonard Blavatnik who .. happens to be an associate of Deripaska’s. Writing that she has “serious concerns” about Mnuchin selling his shares in RatPac-Dune Entertainment to Blavatnik for roughly $25 million, she noted the move is “especially alarming” in light of a recent New York Times article reporting that Deripaska might have gotten something of a sweetheart deal from the Treasury ...

... Lawmakers have said his classified briefing to House members .. re: the decision to lift sanctions was “one of the worst classified briefings they had received from the administration.” He’s also made a name for himself over the past two years as one of Trump’s most reliable stooges, spinning an elaborate trickle-down fantasy re: how the president’s deficit-busting tax bill would pay for itself; defending Trump‘s praise of Nazis; routinely giving the president cover for the boldest of lies; and stonewalling any and all attempts by Democrats to get clarity when it comes to the Trump family’s financial entanglements ...

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/01/democrats-want-to-know-what-russia-has-on-steve-mnuchin?verso=true

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3. Mnuchin denies selling firm to Russians but won't reveal buyers

APR 10, 2019

WASHINGTON - U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin declined to tell lawmakers who purchased his entertainment company, but promised it wasn’t a Russian.

“I can assure you that it’s not a Russian oligarch or any Russian,” Mnuchin said Tuesday in testimony before the House Financial Services Committee. “I don’t believe I’ve ever met a Russian oligarch.”

Mnuchin has faced questions over reports that a company linked to Ukrainian-born billionaire Len Blavatnik purchased a stake in Mnuchin’s company RatPac-Dune Entertainment in 2017, after he became Treasury chief. Democratic lawmakers have said such a transaction would create a conflict of interest for Mnuchin, because Blavatnik is a business associate of Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska, the target of U.S. sanctions aimed at President Vladimir Putin’s inner circle.

The Treasury Department said in a January letter that Mnuchin didn’t sell his stake in RatPac-Dune to Blavatnik or any of his firms, but didn’t identify the buyer. Mnuchin’s stake, which he was required to sell under an agreement with the Office of Government Ethics before he was confirmed as Treasury secretary, was sold to “a third party unconnected to Blavatnik,” Treasury said ...

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/10/business/steve-mnuchin-denies-selling-entertainment-firm-russians-wont-reveal-buyers/#.XODtbSMrK-U

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4. Mnuchin urges senators to ease Russia sanctions

Jan 15, 2019 5:05 PM EDT

... Mnuchin met with Republican senators behind closed doors .. in the hours before a planned Senate vote on the .. resolution <to> block a Treasury Department move to lift penalties against the aluminum manufacturing giant Rusal and two other companies connected to Deripaska ...

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/treasury-secretary-mnuchin-urges-senators-to-ease-russia-sanctions

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5. Mnuchin briefing on sanctions a waste of time

By Donna Borak, Jeremy Herb and Jessica Schneider, CNN
Updated 10:40 PM ET, Thu January 10, 2019

Washington (CNN)Speaker Nancy Pelosi slammed Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin .. calling a closed-door briefing on Russia sanctions "a waste of time" and "one of the worst classified briefings" she'd received during the Trump administration.

Pelosi said that Mnuchin mostly read from an unclassified document and let other officials do most of the talking.

"The secretary barely testified at all," she said ...

https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/10/politics/treasury-house-democrats-russia-sanctions/index.html