Kevin McCarthy's spending at Trump's properties increased 32,000 percent after trump elected

[Demovictory9]

Link to tweet

https://pbs.twimg.com/card_img/1174755556055224326/yW_ZGtcZ?format=jpg&name=medium

[Wounded Bear]

1. K & R...for visibility...nt

[RockRaven]

2. I'm super surprised.

And I'm super cereal about that.

[Kablooie]

3. Couldn't that be conceived as a bribe?

Trump accepting the money is unconstitutional but isn't the person paying him, a bribe, which is a crime too?

[PoliticAverse]

6. Without specific quid pro quo how would it be any different than anyone spending money

at a Trump property?

Are groups paying Congress members or Supreme Court justices large fees for short speeches committing bribery?

Hard to know for sure which is one good argument against all such payments.

[uponit7771]

11. Domestic emoluments violation is more open and shut. McCarthy is the senate minority leader

[PoliticAverse]

4. Imagine if Presidents could accept speaking fees while in office...

like Congress members or Supreme Court justices.

[NCLefty]

5. Whyyyyy so Trumpy? O.o

They don't even try to hide it. 32,000%... I'm not sure I've ever heard a percentage that high in my life. :p

[vlyons]

7. McCarthy's speech yesterday after Pelosi's announcement

left me completely disgusted. I was left wondering if he actually believed his own bullshit about how it's all Dem's made-up charges, because we're pissed that Trump won the election of 2016, and we're trying to reverse the election.

I got this image in my mind of rats in a sewer feasting on disgusting waste going "hmmm yummy meal," because they don't know they are in a sewer. Is McCarthy really that darkly delusional? Does he know that he's feasting on filth?

[onetexan]

8. Lock him up!!

[kimbutgar]

9. Too bad his district won't ever hear this and he is bullet proof there in Bakersfield

All those brain damaged by the chemicals in the agricultural district who keep voting for him because they have been brainwashed into thinking the Democratic Party wants to take their water Bakersfield is also one of the most foul smelling places outside of the cattle farms on i5 in California. Between him and Nunes that part of California is hoodwinked by right wing radio, fox and Sinclair.

[malaise]

10. I have long believed that the Con has the good on Kevin

Never forget that it was Kevin who said that Putin pays the Con
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/house-majority-leader-to-colleagues-in-2016-i-think-putin-pays-trump/2017/05/17/515f6f8a-3aff-11e7-8854-21f359183e8c_story.html

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House majority leader to colleagues in 2016: ‘I think Putin pays’ Trump
By Adam EntousMay 17, 2017
The 2016 conversation Paul Ryan wanted to keep private
A month before Donald Trump clinched the Republican nomination, one of his closest allies in Congress — House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy — made a politically explosive assertion in a private conversation on Capitol Hill with his fellow GOP leaders: that Trump could be the beneficiary of payments from Russian President Vladimir Putin.

“There’s two people I think Putin pays: Rohrabacher and Trump,” McCarthy (R-Calif.) said, according to a recording of the June 15, 2016, exchange, which was listened to and verified by The Washington Post. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher is a Californian Republican known in Congress as a fervent defender of Putin and Russia.

House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) immediately interjected, stopping the conversation from further exploring McCarthy’s assertion, and swore the Republicans present to secrecy.

[Andy823]

12. I think he has the goods on a lot of them

thanks to trumps buddy Putin.

[malaise]

13. Yes indeed

although I think he has more goods on them than Putin - the family values posse think their sexual peccadilloes are hidden