Moscow Mitch blasts ProPublica tax leak, says whoever is responsible should be 'hunted down and

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

thrown into jail'

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky on Monday called for legal action against anyone who was responsible for leaking the tax records of the super wealthy to ProPublica.

In a recent ProPublica report, the publication detailed how billionaires such as Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, and Warren Buffett have largely avoided paying a substantial amount of income taxes.

The report cited "an anonymous source" who provided the publication "with large amounts of information on the ultrawealthy, everything from the taxes they paid to the income they reported to the profits from their stock trades."

During an interview on conservative host Hugh Huge Twit's radio show, McConnell rebuked the disclosure of the tax records of some of the most affluent Americans in the country and called for consequences for the perpetrators.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/mcconnell-blasts-propublica-tax-leak-162957357.html

[ananda]

1. Well, those ARE the people he answers to.

...

[Pantagruel]

2. Still pissed

the "Pentagon Papers" got out. He's generally against any truth being exposed to public scrutiny.

[qazplm135]

3. how do we have their tax records leaked

but not Trump's??

I swear that dude has a legion of demons protecting him.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

4. Moscow Mitch is a real man of the people (nt)

[BigmanPigman]

5. Good! I am always happier whenever Mitch is pissed off at Dems.

Apparently this info was very accurate and makes the GQP look bad...because they ARE BAD. Poor Mitch's wealthy friends are pissed off. Tough shit to all of them!

[Blue Owl]

6. Mitch needs to be busted, charged, and locked away in a federal prison

It can't happen soon enough

[Thomas Hurt]

7. Money and Guns before God and country.

[Just_Vote_Dem]

8. "Hugh Huge Twit"

Thanks for that

[uponit7771]

9. Moscow Mitch's homies don't play dat !!!

[chowder66]

10. Mitch probably leaked them. nt

[Crunchy Frog]

11. Upset on behalf of his constituents.

[StClone]

12. Somebody, anybody, give me an instant when a good thought was entertained by this guy.

[bucolic_frolic]

13. Yeah, theft like that should be kept private

lest the public figure it all out, which might be bad for Moscow Mitch's party.

[Martin Eden]

14. It's rather telling that McConnell's takeaway from this

Isn't outrage at billionaires dodging taxes, but the fact it became public knowledge.

We know whose interests he and his party serve.

[Kid Berwyn]

15. Billionaires hate paying taxes. Ask Putin, Moscow Mitch.

McConnell and the Russians: Setting the record straight

Forward KY
October 21, 2020 by Marshall Ward

Excerpt...

Russian money and McConnell actions

Russian oligarchs have been putting money into Republicans, and specifically McConnell, for years.

In the 2016 election cycle and beyond, Oleg Deripaska had his companies contribute over $6.3 million to U.S. campaigns, with $2.5 million of that going to McConnell’s Senate Leadership Fund.

In 2017, Len Blavatnik, a Ukrainian businessman and a partner of Deripaska, donated another $1 million to the McConnell fund.

Interestingly, in April 2018, the Trump administration announced sanctions on multiple Russian oligarchs and their companies, including Deripaska and his aluminum company Rusal, the second largest aluminum company in the world. The sanctions were in response to Russian meddling in the 2016 election.

Deripaska is known to be closely allied with the Kremlin, and his name has come up in emails turned over to the Mueller investigation.

Then, in December 2018, the administration agreed to lift the sanctions on Deripaska’s companies in exchange for him giving up majority ownership.

Democrats in Congress mounted an effort to keep the sanctions in place, saying the sanctions were justified due to the 2016 election meddling.

But about a month later, in January 2019, McConnell led Senate Republicans to block the Democratic effort. The sanctions on Deripaska’s companies were removed, and those companies could then do business in the United States.

And once the sanctions were lifted, Deripaska’s company, Rusal, promised an investment of $200 million in a start-up aluminum plant. Where? In McConnell’s home state of Kentucky.

The Mueller Report and the Senate Intelligence report showed the normal chain of command was Putin to Deripaska to Kilimnik (a Russian operative under indictment) to the Trump campaign minions, many of whom are now in jail.

Continues...

https://forwardky.com/mcconnell-and-the-russians-setting-the-record-straight/

THIS is why Drumpf spied on “leakers.” Crooks hate it when the truth comes out.