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House Democrats want to know why a major Russian money-laundering case was abruptly settled

Natasha Bertrand

Democratic members of the House Judiciary Committee sent a letter to Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Wednesday asking why the Department of Justice settled a major money-laundering case involving a real-estate company owned by the son of a powerful Russian government official whose lawyer met with Donald Trump Jr. last year.

Trump Jr., the president's eldest son, on Tuesday tweeted an email chain from June 2016 in which he entertained accepting damaging information from a "Russian government attorney" about Hillary Clinton as part of the Kremlin's support for his father's campaign.

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http://www.businessinsider.com/why-was-russian-money-laundering-case-dismissed-house-dems-2017-7

Jesus H. Christ. If Hillary had done 1/1000 of the shit the Trump/Kushner Crime Syndicate is getting away with, they'd be remodeling a special Clinton Wing at Leavenworth. This is a bigger clusterfuck than even I imagined, and I imagined a colossal one. There isn't one Republican who isn't tainted by this whole mess. Their desperate measures to cling to and consolidate power before demographics overtake them is the most unpatriotic, un-American, treasonous thing since the Civil War. And from what I can see, most Americans couldn't care less. We're utterly lost.