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Botany

(70,588 posts)
Thu Oct 5, 2023, 04:37 PM Oct 2023

Please remember that in 2016 Scalise knew about Putin paying Trump and Jordan took part in the ....

... 1/6/21 Coup

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/paul-ryan-keeps-it-family-kevin-mccarthy-russia-trump

“There’s two people I think Putin pays: Rohrabacher and Trump,” McCarthy said, according to Entous, a superb reporter who heard a tape recording of the colloquy. “Swear to God.”

snip

In the Post piece, McCarthy’s remark is met with laughter, and Ryan cautions his colleagues, “This is an off the record . . . No leaks! . . . All right?”

And then, amid more laughter, Ryan says, “This is how we know we’re a real family here.”

“That’s how you know that we’re tight,” Steve Scalise, the House Majority Whip, says.

“What’s said in the family stays in the family,” Ryan concludes.

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Jordan seems not to remember about if he talked w/Trump on 1/6/21

These are un-American Treason Weasels .... and they want to be in House Leadership?
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Botany

(70,588 posts)
2. They have to cheat, lie, steal, sell hate, and use Russian disinformation to keep power
Thu Oct 5, 2023, 04:53 PM
Oct 2023

Years ago as a kid our next door neighbor's brother was Ray Shafer, Gov. of PA (middle class neighborhood)
he was as fine a man as you would ever meet, and a Republican too those days are long since gone.

Irish_Dem

(47,444 posts)
4. Putin has infiltrated the highest levels of US government.
Thu Oct 5, 2023, 06:40 PM
Oct 2023

His elected US assets don't even bother to hide it.
Their voters agree that Russia is great.

Botany

(70,588 posts)
5. Everytime those motherfuckers talk about "Hunter Biden and his laptop" they are giving a Russian ..
Thu Oct 5, 2023, 06:51 PM
Oct 2023

... talking point.

Irish_Dem

(47,444 posts)
6. Oh yes it is clear that Putin sends the weekly talking points to GOP elected officials.
Thu Oct 5, 2023, 06:59 PM
Oct 2023

And they spout them religiously.

Same thing Putin has done in European capitals.
And same thing China does in Asia.

It is common knowledge and straight forward.

It is done to make democracies look weak and foolish.
To make them favor autocratic countries.
And in the event of an invasion like with Ukraine and Taiwan,
it is not an invasion it is just a civil war.

Botany

(70,588 posts)
7. Even the GOP leadership in the 2018 Senate Intel Committee have admitted to "it."
Thu Oct 5, 2023, 07:14 PM
Oct 2023
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/03/trump-russian-asset-election-intelligence-community-report.html

How much Russian money was behind "The Apprentice" and what are the connections between Fox News and Trump?

Irish_Dem

(47,444 posts)
8. It is all there in plain sight and has been for some time.
Thu Oct 5, 2023, 07:16 PM
Oct 2023

And every week we get more confirmation.

Half the people cannot add 2 plus 2 and get 4.
The other half does not care, they like Russia.

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