Does anyone on DU know of evidence of dirty Russian money going to McConnell, Ryan

[BigmanPigman]

or other key GOP figures? Or is this a mere general assumption?

[Not Ruth]

1. In May

Link to tweet

[BigmanPigman]

3. Is there a more credible source? Mensch is 50/50 in my book.

[Nictuku]

2. Just this:

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?utm_term=.d1a303ec2fe3

[BigmanPigman]

4. But being complicit about collusion isn't a federal crime, is it?

[Nictuku]

5. Then there is this

I'm not sure why more of this hasn't been reported. If I'm able to connect some dots, you would think that actual reporters could.

Hopefully Mueller has more information. Here is what I'm getting at:

There was a raid last May at this GOP fundraiser PAC called "Strategic Campaign Group"

One of Strategic Campaign Group’s senior advisers, Dennis Whitfield, was a director of the political consulting firm started by Paul Manafort

So there is a tenuous connection, but nothing I think that we can call evidence (yet)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/md-politics/fbi-searches-republican-political-consulting-firm-in-annapolis/2017/05/11/43949a9e-367a-11e7-b373-418f6849a004_story.html?utm_term=.2389a8e1e6e7

[BigmanPigman]

6. Yeah, you would think that between the reporters and Mueller

someone would be onto this but there is a lot of nothing! It seems obvious.