Democrats on the Senate intelligence committee threatened to walk out,...
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/senate-russia-hacking-investigation-trump-233836How the Senate's Russian meddling probe almost blew up
Democrats led by Sen. Mark Warner threatened to boycott an Intelligence Committee investigation after a top Republican said Trump's campaign would be off-limits.
Sen. Mark Warner couldn’t believe what his Republican counterpart on the Senate Intelligence Committee had just done.
With no advance notice, Chairman Richard Burr (R-N.C.) declared to reporters that his panel wouldn’t look into possible collusion between Donald Trump’s campaign and Moscow as part of its investigation of Russian interference in the election. So Warner, a Virginia Democrat who is the panel’s ranking member, promptly enlisted every Democrat on the committee to oppose Burr’s move and presumably boycott the investigation if he didn't reverse himself, according to congressional sources.
Barely 24 hours later, Burr issued a lengthy statement backtracking on his own comments. The committee would indeed examine “links between Russia and individuals associated with political campaigns” as part of its larger election-hacking probe, Burr wrote in a joint statement with Warner.
The implicit boycott threat, described by three sources with knowledge of the behind-the-scenes effort, illustrates the uneasy partnership between Burr and Warner as their committee assumes one of the toughest assignments in Washington. The two are seeking to maintain a bipartisan spirit on a committee now tasked with getting to the bottom of the biggest question hanging over Trump as he prepares to take the oath of office — whether his campaign coordinated with Russia.
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Republicans were for the rich only, not the working man (woman).
If my Dad or Papaw were alive, they would be going nuts right now.
I miss their old wisdom though. One of the best nights I ever had with my parents was watching the states come in on election night 2008. He died in 2010.
Sorry for getting all 
my dad said the same thing republicans were for rich and democrats were for the Middle class he was right.
And I have had those democratic ideals for a long time.
so sad today.
the money trail is muddy and obscure.
Real estate prices fluctuate so a Russian LLC needing $ laundering buys a $3 million apt. for $6 million from Trump and what happens with the extra $3 million? Russian keeps it and probably gives a kickback to Trump so he can be bailed out of his 7th bankruptcy.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/1/9/1618540/-Was-Donald-Trump-bailed-out-of-bankruptcy-by-Russia-crime-bosses?detail=email&link_id=2&can_id=d26754c22c62898db18d04b7ba8ebc7b&source=email-perverted-sex-with-russian-prostitutes-kickbacks-bribes-and-other-trump-follies-revealed&email_referrer=perverted-sex-with-russian-prostitutes-kickbacks-bribes-and-other-trump-follies-revealed&email_subject=perverted-sex-with-russian-prostitutes-kickbacks-bribes-and-other-trump-follies-revealed
In 2008, Donald Trump Jr. attended a real estate conference, where he stated that
Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets. We see a lot of money pouring in from Russia.
As it turns out, that may have been an understatement. Human rights lawyer Scott Horton, whose work in the region goes back to defending Andrei Sakharov and other Soviet dissidents, has gone through a series of studies by the Financial Times to show how funds from Russian crime lords bailed Trump out after yet anther bankruptcy. The conclusions are stark.
Among the powerful facts that DNI missed were a series of very deep studies published in the that examined the structure and history of several major Trump real estate projects from the last decade—the period after his seventh bankruptcy and the cancellation of all his bank lines of credit. ...
The money to build these projects flowed almost entirely from Russian sources. In other words, after his business crashed, Trump was floated and made to appear to operate a successful business enterprise through the infusion of hundreds in millions of cash from dark Russian sources.
He was their man. 
Can you imagine if this were Hillary we were learning about?
