When did Kevin McCarthy move from this to the man who headed down to Mar-a-Lago to

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eat humble pie
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/17/putin-pays-donald-trump-kevin-mccarthy-recording

In a 2016 conversation with fellow members of House leadership, the majority leader, Kevin McCarthy, suggested that Donald Trump was on Vladimir Putin’s payroll.

In an exchange first reported by the Washington Post, McCarthy said: “There’s …there’s two people, I think, Putin pays: [California Representative Dana] Rohrabacher and Trump … [laughter] … swear to God.”

On Wednesday night, Ryan’s spokesman, Brendan Buck, said in a statement to the Guardian: “This entire year-old exchange was clearly an attempt at humor. No one believed the majority leader was seriously asserting that Donald Trump or any of our members were being paid by the Russians.”

He added: “What’s more, the speaker and leadership team have repeatedly spoken out against Russia’s interference in our election, and the House continues to investigate that activity.”hy-recording

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1. ...

Blackmail maybe

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2. as in skeletons are known?

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4. Yep

they're all in that russia club of puppet dolts.

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3. He was already a corrupted scumbag liar who was himself involved in taking

and funneling foreign money from/connected to Kremlin/Kuwait operations and fully aware that more Republicans officeholders than just those two were being influenced by or selling their influence to Russia. We call McConnell "Moscow Mitch for that reason, but he'd also been selling his influence to Chinese billionaires ever since he helped stop sanctions on China at the time of Tienanmen, 30 years ago!

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5. Easy answer...

...when the rest of the establishment Republican Party knuckled-under and knelt down in fealty to Trump after he racked up enough delegates to clinch the 2016 nomination.

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6. Makes sense