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CatWoman

(79,302 posts) Thu Dec 28, 2017, 07:13 PM Dec 2017

Mueller investigating Russian interference in to the 2016 elections coordinated with Paul Ryan's PAC

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Mueller investigating Russian interference in to the 2016 elections coordinated with Paul Ryan's PAC (Original Post) CatWoman Dec 2017 OP

Hang him and McConnell...socipathic traitors! BigmanPigman Dec 2017 #1

Wouldnt that be lovely and fitting? kysrsoze Dec 2017 #5

Is there still a death penalty for treason? BigmanPigman Dec 2017 #10

Lets have the trial in Utah Stryst Dec 2017 #13

Can I reserve tickets yet? BigmanPigman Dec 2017 #15

Well, the way they select shooters Stryst Dec 2017 #40

Look at the dateline December 15, 2016, story is a year old IMnotU Dec 2017 #27

A year ago we knew little about what the GOP did. But this story and others make me certain Maraya1969 Dec 2017 #42

Wow! And Paulie Boy recently announced his retirement out of the blue. I'm sure its a coincidence. Squinch Dec 2017 #2

Ding ding malaise Dec 2017 #6

I called it the day he did that, it is clear he is dirty but then knowing that is no big Eliot Rosewater Dec 2017 #9

Thanks for the reminder. Nt NCTraveler Dec 2017 #12

Yup...no connection whatsoever! Lucinda Dec 2017 #43

Russian Mafia thbobby Dec 2017 #3

This was one of the biggest stories last year malaise Dec 2017 #4

They are like third graders passing notes in class ProudLib72 Dec 2017 #41

That explains Paul's decision... IluvPitties Dec 2017 #7

Well well welly well well. Kingofalldems Dec 2017 #8

Lock Paul Ryan up Gothmog Dec 2017 #11

I knew that smug, little twerp was complicit. GoCubsGo Dec 2017 #14

is that why rumours of Ryan calling it quits Chakaconcarne Dec 2017 #16

Well if we found out about this today, it means Muellers had it for what? Volaris Dec 2017 #19

Oh please please paaaalease!!! LakeArenal Dec 2017 #17

This is the blackmail, if true. cilla4progress Dec 2017 #18

Is this the thing Scott Dworkin tweeted about earlier? kydo Dec 2017 #20

don't know because this story was posted five or six hours ago........... CatWoman Dec 2017 #22

This story has been out there --Mensch in June -- but first confirm about Mueller. L. Coyote Dec 2017 #25

This could be part of it. triron Dec 2017 #26

Who is Grant Stern? NewJeffCT Dec 2017 #21

HOLY CRAP.......is this what Lawrence O is going to discuss tonight?? a kennedy Dec 2017 #23

Hope not. The article in OP link was written in 2016, not new. Hoyt Dec 2017 #28

MAYBE he's pointing us to that article because Silver Gaia Dec 2017 #31

I hope I'm wrong, but bless MSNBC's heart, they've been trying to keep our hopes up -- but so far Hoyt Dec 2017 #33

You can fool some of the people all of the time, but the facts are still the facts. PubliusEnigma Dec 2017 #35

Per Lawrence O'Donnell on twitter .... LenaBaby61 Dec 2017 #24

YES! YES YES YES!!! liberalla Dec 2017 #29

At this point, I think what Dworkin is talking about and what Lawrence O'D is excited about Silver Gaia Dec 2017 #39

If Ryan is involved it could explain why he tried to use his power as speaker to resist calls cstanleytech Dec 2017 #30

Who is 4th in line in succession? Roland99 Dec 2017 #32

President pro tempore of the Senate, Orrin Hatch. EL34x4 Dec 2017 #34

Oh geezus Roland99 Dec 2017 #37

Who was it that said Hatch would be President? I can't recall. Can you?? PubliusEnigma Dec 2017 #36

Louise Mensch had posted about it at Patribotics liberalla Dec 2017 #38

Yep. n/t Lucinda Dec 2017 #44

Please put that smug fuck in jail Blue Owl Dec 2017 #45

BigmanPigman

(51,636 posts)

1. Hang him and McConnell...socipathic traitors!

Reply to CatWoman (Original post)

Thu Dec 28, 2017, 07:15 PM

Dec 2017

kysrsoze

(6,023 posts)

5. Wouldnt that be lovely and fitting?

Reply to BigmanPigman (Reply #1)

Thu Dec 28, 2017, 07:31 PM

Dec 2017

BigmanPigman

(51,636 posts)

10. Is there still a death penalty for treason?

Reply to kysrsoze (Reply #5)

Thu Dec 28, 2017, 07:38 PM

Dec 2017

Electric chair, guillotine, hanging? Actually I would rather see them publicly tortured for the rest of their treasonous lives (after their assets are seized and given to both Social Security and Medicare).

Stryst

(714 posts)

13. Lets have the trial in Utah

Reply to BigmanPigman (Reply #10)

Thu Dec 28, 2017, 07:55 PM

Dec 2017

Where death by Firing Squad is still a thing.

BigmanPigman

(51,636 posts)

15. Can I reserve tickets yet?

Reply to Stryst (Reply #13)

Thu Dec 28, 2017, 07:58 PM

Dec 2017

Stryst

(714 posts)

40. Well, the way they select shooters

Reply to BigmanPigman (Reply #15)

Fri Dec 29, 2017, 03:09 AM

Dec 2017

Is from a pool of volunteers, with priority given to police from the area the crime happened in.

We all live in the area the crime happened. Just putting it out there.

IMnotU

(52 posts)

27. Look at the dateline December 15, 2016, story is a year old

Reply to BigmanPigman (Reply #1)

Thu Dec 28, 2017, 08:34 PM

Dec 2017

Maraya1969

(22,506 posts)

42. A year ago we knew little about what the GOP did. But this story and others make me certain

Reply to IMnotU (Reply #27)

Fri Dec 29, 2017, 11:13 AM

Dec 2017

that several Republican Senate and House members won because of Russia.

They knew they needed R's to be in the majority so they could support anything Trump did

Squinch

(51,025 posts)

2. Wow! And Paulie Boy recently announced his retirement out of the blue. I'm sure its a coincidence.

Reply to CatWoman (Original post)

Thu Dec 28, 2017, 07:18 PM

Dec 2017

malaise

(269,193 posts)

6. Ding ding

Reply to Squinch (Reply #2)

Thu Dec 28, 2017, 07:32 PM

Dec 2017

We have a winner

Eliot Rosewater

(31,122 posts)

9. I called it the day he did that, it is clear he is dirty but then knowing that is no big

Reply to Squinch (Reply #2)

Thu Dec 28, 2017, 07:38 PM

Dec 2017

deal, they are all dirty.

NCTraveler

(30,481 posts)

12. Thanks for the reminder. Nt

Reply to Squinch (Reply #2)

Thu Dec 28, 2017, 07:45 PM

Dec 2017

Lucinda

(31,170 posts)

43. Yup...no connection whatsoever!

Reply to Squinch (Reply #2)

Fri Dec 29, 2017, 11:21 AM

Dec 2017

thbobby

(1,474 posts)

3. Russian Mafia

Reply to CatWoman (Original post)

Thu Dec 28, 2017, 07:29 PM

Dec 2017

aka GOP. The entire GOP is a crime family. Remember Ryan talking about who is on Russian payroll. He said we must keep this in the family. Good joke paul! Laugh all the way to prison.

malaise

(269,193 posts)

4. This was one of the biggest stories last year

Reply to CatWoman (Original post)

Thu Dec 28, 2017, 07:31 PM

Dec 2017

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=.c57b66c958ec
<snip>
A month before Donald Trump clinched the Republican nomination, one of his closest allies in Congress — House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy — made a politically explosive assertion in a private conversation on Capitol Hill with his fellow GOP leaders: that Trump could be the beneficiary of payments from Russian President Vladimir Putin.

“There’s two people I think Putin pays: Rohrabacher and Trump,” McCarthy (R-Calif.) said, according to a recording of the June 15, 2016, exchange, which was listened to and verified by The Washington Post. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher is a Californian Republican known in Congress as a fervent defender of Putin and Russia.

House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) immediately interjected, stopping the conversation from further exploring McCarthy’s assertion, and swore the Republicans present to secrecy.

ProudLib72

(17,984 posts)

41. They are like third graders passing notes in class

Reply to malaise (Reply #4)

Fri Dec 29, 2017, 03:13 AM

Dec 2017

"Tee hee hee, don't let Timmy see the note..."

Mueller is the ever observant teacher who snatches up the note and reads it aloud to the class.

IluvPitties

(3,181 posts)

7. That explains Paul's decision...

Reply to CatWoman (Original post)

Thu Dec 28, 2017, 07:32 PM

Dec 2017

Kingofalldems

(38,489 posts)

8. Well well welly well well.

Reply to CatWoman (Original post)

Thu Dec 28, 2017, 07:33 PM

Dec 2017

Paul Ryan eh? Lock his ass up.

Gothmog

(145,627 posts)

11. Lock Paul Ryan up

Reply to CatWoman (Original post)

Thu Dec 28, 2017, 07:45 PM

Dec 2017

GoCubsGo

(32,095 posts)

14. I knew that smug, little twerp was complicit.

Reply to CatWoman (Original post)

Thu Dec 28, 2017, 07:57 PM

Dec 2017

Hope to see him in an orange jumpsuit, right along with the rest of them.

Chakaconcarne

(2,463 posts)

16. is that why rumours of Ryan calling it quits

Reply to CatWoman (Original post)

Thu Dec 28, 2017, 07:58 PM

Dec 2017

came about?

Volaris

(10,274 posts)

19. Well if we found out about this today, it means Muellers had it for what?

Reply to Chakaconcarne (Reply #16)

Thu Dec 28, 2017, 08:02 PM

Dec 2017

2 to 3 weeks?
How long ago did the Grannystarver drop his hint?

LakeArenal

(28,849 posts)

17. Oh please please paaaalease!!!

Reply to CatWoman (Original post)

Thu Dec 28, 2017, 07:59 PM

Dec 2017

Evil.

cilla4progress

(24,779 posts)

18. This is the blackmail, if true.

Reply to CatWoman (Original post)

Thu Dec 28, 2017, 08:01 PM

Dec 2017

tRump knows through the Russians that all their campaigns colluded and are tainted. Even if they themselves didn’t have actual knowledge. He is letting them all know and has them by the balls.

My latest theory.

kydo

(2,679 posts)

20. Is this the thing Scott Dworkin tweeted about earlier?

Reply to CatWoman (Original post)

Thu Dec 28, 2017, 08:05 PM

Dec 2017

CatWoman

(79,302 posts)

22. don't know because this story was posted five or six hours ago...........

Reply to kydo (Reply #20)

Thu Dec 28, 2017, 08:12 PM

Dec 2017

L. Coyote

(51,129 posts)

25. This story has been out there --Mensch in June -- but first confirm about Mueller.

Reply to kydo (Reply #20)

Thu Dec 28, 2017, 08:27 PM

Dec 2017

Link to tweet

Did Paul Ryan cut a Trump-Russia deal with Robert Mueller?
Bill Palmer -- Dec 14, 2017 -- http://www.palmerreport.com/politics/deal-paul-ryan-mueller/6658/

Speaker of the House Paul Ryan just leaked to the media through friends that he’s considering retiring at the end of his current term, or resigning before his term is up. The revelation has sent shockwaves through the political landscape. Even though Ryan’s Republican Party is reeling as Donald Trump collapses, the timing of this news raises questions – and there may only be one explanation.

Let’s be clear about how bizarre the timing of this is. Ryan’s lifelong goal is to steal money from the poor and give it to the wealthy ...........

triron

(22,023 posts)

26. This could be part of it.

Reply to L. Coyote (Reply #25)

Thu Dec 28, 2017, 08:29 PM

Dec 2017

NewJeffCT

(56,829 posts)

21. Who is Grant Stern?

Reply to CatWoman (Original post)

Thu Dec 28, 2017, 08:11 PM

Dec 2017

Other than a mortgage broker in Miami?

a kennedy

(29,716 posts)

23. HOLY CRAP.......is this what Lawrence O is going to discuss tonight??

Reply to CatWoman (Original post)

Thu Dec 28, 2017, 08:16 PM

Dec 2017

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)

28. Hope not. The article in OP link was written in 2016, not new.

Reply to a kennedy (Reply #23)

Thu Dec 28, 2017, 08:40 PM

Dec 2017

Hope we are not respining stuff.

Silver Gaia

(4,546 posts)

31. MAYBE he's pointing us to that article because

Reply to Hoyt (Reply #28)

Thu Dec 28, 2017, 09:20 PM

Dec 2017

it provides background info on the story that is coming. ??? In any case, I don't think this is the story itself, not the one Lawrence is coming back from vacation for.

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)

33. I hope I'm wrong, but bless MSNBC's heart, they've been trying to keep our hopes up -- but so far

Reply to Silver Gaia (Reply #31)

Thu Dec 28, 2017, 09:25 PM

Dec 2017

it's mostly conspiracy stuff that 80% of the people aren't really going to care about. A jury would fall asleep with what we have right now.

So DNC emails were stolen -- or Trump campaign emails -- it just shows some folks weren't up to the task of either protecting info or knowing when to pick up the phone. I suspect both sides were hacking away during the election and primaries.

PubliusEnigma

(1,583 posts)

35. You can fool some of the people all of the time, but the facts are still the facts.

Reply to Hoyt (Reply #33)

Thu Dec 28, 2017, 09:50 PM

Dec 2017

LenaBaby61

(6,979 posts)

24. Per Lawrence O'Donnell on twitter ....

Reply to CatWoman (Original post)

Thu Dec 28, 2017, 08:19 PM

Dec 2017

Lawrence O'Donnell 14 minutes ago.

"I will be suspending my vacation tonight to join @AriMelber at 10pm @TheLastWord to discuss some good news. For a change. Very good news!"

liberalla

(9,264 posts)

29. YES! YES YES YES!!!

Reply to LenaBaby61 (Reply #24)

Thu Dec 28, 2017, 08:44 PM

Dec 2017

I love these tingles I'm feeling... and so happy both Lawrence AND Ari will be on...
Thanks for that news!

Silver Gaia

(4,546 posts)

39. At this point, I think what Dworkin is talking about and what Lawrence O'D is excited about

Reply to LenaBaby61 (Reply #24)

Thu Dec 28, 2017, 11:21 PM

Dec 2017

are not the same thing. Dworkin says his story is a "follow the money" thing that is BIG. Apparently, Lawrence is excited about this stupid, unscripted NYT Trump interview, which is a load of nonsense crap.n