GOP campaigns took $7.35 million from oligarch linked to Russia.

[Cattledog]

Party loyalty is often cited as the reason that GOP leaders have not been more outspoken in their criticism of President Donald Trump and his refusal to condemn Russia's interference in the 2016 presidential election. Yet there may be another reason that top Republicans have not been more vocal in their condemnation. Perhaps it's because they have their own links to the Russian oligarchy that they would prefer go unnoticed.

Donald Trump and the political action committees for Mitch McConnell, Marco Rubio, Scott Walker, Lindsey Graham, John Kasich and John McCain accepted $7.35 million in contributions from a Ukrainian-born oligarch who is the business partner of two of Russian president Vladimir Putin's favorite oligarchs and a Russian government bank.

During the 2015-2016 election season, Ukrainian-born billionaire Leonard "Len" Blavatnik contributed $6.35 million to leading Republican candidates and incumbent senators. Mitch McConnell was the top recipient of Blavatnik's donations, collecting $2.5 million for his GOP Senate Leadership Fund under the names of two of Blavatnik's holding companies, Access Industries and AI Altep Holdings, according to Federal Election Commission documents and OpenSecrets.org.

https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2017/08/03/tangled-web-connects-russian-oligarch-money-gop-campaigns

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. If ANY dem did this it would be defined as treason and they would be indicted or

expelled or censured.

[NRaleighLiberal]

2. LOCK THEM UP!

[Sneederbunk]

3. Looks like collusion has a big tent.

[Achilleaze]

4. republicans sold America out to the freakin evil empire*

Treasonous republican bastards.

* per ronald freakin reagan

[Wellstone ruled]

5. This seems to be just the tip

of this Berg. Depending on how this money moved,it might or is a violation of Campaign Finance rules.

[delisen]

6. Wonder who Putin wants for 2020 president?

[Moral Compass]

7. Someone please educate me

When is it legal to take contributions from foreign sources?

Is it allowed if the contributions go to a SuperPAC?

[ghostsinthemachine]

8. Call them Comrade

When addressing them

[Gothmog]

9. Russia funded the trump campaign

[Initech]

10. Holy shit! How far does this go? How many of them are involved?

I feel like we're in that movie "The World's End". Only instead of robots, our leaders are getting replaced with Russian operatives. And we're about to find out the source. How deep does this whole Russian thing go?

[Hassin Bin Sober]

11. That's how I feel.

I feel like it's the opening scene in War of The Worlds