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RUMOR: Mueller is closing in on Nunes, Ryan and McConnell (Original Post) RandySF Jun 2018 OP
Please let it be so!! InAbLuEsTaTe Jun 2018 #1
Sounds way to good to be true! democratisphere Jun 2018 #51
Unfortunately, yes. InAbLuEsTaTe Jun 2018 #52
Exactly what I think, unfortunately. BobTheSubgenius Jun 2018 #70
They are all guilty as sin and need to go down with drumpf. lark Jun 2018 #2
Love your Jim Morrison avatar dawg day Jun 2018 #30
Love Morrison, love the Doors. lark Jun 2018 #74
Mr. Mayor the Rethug Fascist - ghoul-iani too ! magicarpet Jun 2018 #55
I don't know where these rumors are rampant, but its not in DC onenote Jun 2018 #3
Echo Chamber, Progressive Style Roy Rolling Jun 2018 #47
I know, I keep hearing about these rumors, and then nothing happens. Fla Dem Jun 2018 #85
Please send the turtle and saidsimplesimon Jun 2018 #4
Wishin' and hopin' ... japple Jun 2018 #36
The mind must see before the results saidsimplesimon Jun 2018 #38
I thought Dusty Springfield said it better... japple Jun 2018 #39
It's not just him, for me. saidsimplesimon Jun 2018 #40
Are we to choose only one of those? BobTheSubgenius Jun 2018 #71
innocent people have nothing to hide. nt msongs Jun 2018 #5
Icing on a delicious and satisfying cake. Sneederbunk Jun 2018 #6
ROFL malaise Jun 2018 #7
They wanted to Keep the secret "within the family". BigmanPigman Jun 2018 #12
ty for posting that questionseverything Jun 2018 #76
Rumors? From where?? Roland99 Jun 2018 #8
Internet BS former9thward Jun 2018 #21
Digging thru links in replies, it's all conjecture based on 6 month-old news Roland99 Jun 2018 #22
You don't know that it's bs.. whathehell Jun 2018 #67
Because it is. former9thward Jun 2018 #69
Sez you... whathehell Jun 2018 #82
If you believe these rumors are "rampant", point to some examples onenote Jun 2018 #72
I don't "blindly believe" shit.. whathehell Jun 2018 #80
Spot on. Tipperary Jun 2018 #81
Not sure but my cat says his friends have heard similar rumors. grantcart Jun 2018 #28
So has mine, a few times this weekend. dewsgirl Jun 2018 #77
it feels like AmandaRuth Jun 2018 #9
Would love to believe this, but reminds me of repeated claims that "fitzmas" was coming Va Lefty Jun 2018 #10
Nunes could be true RandySF Jun 2018 #13
Don't doubt for a minute that they have all broken laws Va Lefty Jun 2018 #15
I think ironically, possibly the biggest threat they may face is from trump. Salviati Jun 2018 #44
McClatchy did a piece last year on kremlin money going to Ryan. McConnell, Scott Walker and others. PSPS Jun 2018 #18
Yes, but they wrote the laws that provided a Hortensis Jun 2018 #56
agreed NewJeffCT Jun 2018 #29
Well, finally! Looks like someone wiped that smirk off his face. Frustratedlady Jun 2018 #11
Color me hopeful but dubious....but still hopeful, but.....well dameatball Jun 2018 #14
Michael Cohen, as recently as a couple months ago, was the Deputy Chair of the RNC finance pnwmom Jun 2018 #16
These rumors and predictions are just that ... left-of-center2012 Jun 2018 #17
Oh this will be classic!! onecent Jun 2018 #19
What rumors? The article says nothing of the sort. Takket Jun 2018 #20
When I see a tweet like this coming fron the Washington Post calguy Jun 2018 #23
Wishful thinking. Crutchez_CuiBono Jun 2018 #24
Oh please please please coeur_de_lion Jun 2018 #25
That's why, duforsure Jun 2018 #26
Is Giuliani spreading that rumor? Jim__ Jun 2018 #27
minngal marieo1 Jun 2018 #31
Sweet Jesus! dawnie51 Jun 2018 #32
I actually think someone posted gibraltar72 Jun 2018 #33
Please send out positive thoughts, prayers for protection for Mr. Mueller japple Jun 2018 #34
I sure as hell hope so. n/t GoCubsGo Jun 2018 #35
LOCK THEM UP!! axm Jun 2018 #37
Mitch McConnell looks like Beaker from the Muppets Oneironaut Jun 2018 #41
Dream scenario Yellowdog88 Jun 2018 #42
Interestingly, Scott Walker was in the mix of recipients dragonlady Jun 2018 #57
Indeed Yellowdog88 Jun 2018 #64
Random Twitter account... demmiblue Jun 2018 #43
republican traitors against America deserve justice Achilleaze Jun 2018 #45
Jail every last rethug samir.g Jun 2018 #46
I don't know about this rumor. Honeycombe8 Jun 2018 #48
You know, Mitch would look REALLY GOOD PatrickforO Jun 2018 #49
Makes sense DownriverDem Jun 2018 #50
The fix was in for a long time. Warren_Pointe Jun 2018 #53
Yertle, in that picture, looks like he suspects he's in Mueller's crosshairs. n/t Different Drummer Jun 2018 #54
Source? Amaryllis Jun 2018 #58
I'm certain they are all connected blue-wave Jun 2018 #59
I hope he throws in Ryan, Pence, the first couple, Miller and all the other KewlKat Jun 2018 #60
The Mueller investigators do not leak, so I don't know where this rumor is coming from. LastLiberal in PalmSprings Jun 2018 #61
McConnell looks like a turtle in the middle of the road with a semi truck bearing down on him. LudwigPastorius Jun 2018 #62
McConnell looks more like an Undertaker than a Senator jimlup Jun 2018 #63
That would be so nice... BlueJac Jun 2018 #65
We can hope Bettie Jun 2018 #66
Oh please oh please oh PLEASE!!! BlancheSplanchnik Jun 2018 #68
Please let this be true! Please let them face punishment for their total disregard for.... usaf-vet Jun 2018 #73
This is pure wishful thinking. Calista241 Jun 2018 #75
"Rumours" is an LP by Fleetwood Mac. VOX Jun 2018 #78
What about Pence?? secondwind Jun 2018 #79
Why post this nonsense? cwydro Jun 2018 #83
"Rumors are rampant" oberliner Jun 2018 #84

lark

(23,123 posts)
2. They are all guilty as sin and need to go down with drumpf.
Sat Jun 16, 2018, 04:35 PM
Jun 2018

Including Flynn, Manafort, Cohen, Jarvanka, Eric, Jr., Sessions, Pruitt, Pence, Carsons, Miller and all the other criminals hanging around them.

lark

(23,123 posts)
74. Love Morrison, love the Doors.
Sun Jun 17, 2018, 09:14 PM
Jun 2018

My daughter and I were dancing and singing to their music after dinner at the Fathers Day Party earlier today, so much fun.

onenote

(42,715 posts)
3. I don't know where these rumors are rampant, but its not in DC
Sat Jun 16, 2018, 04:35 PM
Jun 2018

and probably not anywhere in the real world, either.

Roy Rolling

(6,918 posts)
47. Echo Chamber, Progressive Style
Sat Jun 16, 2018, 06:30 PM
Jun 2018

I agree. Everyone wants it to be true, but bouncing the rumor around before validating it is pure speculation. It's also an example how the right-wing echo chamber can seize a story---the more hyperbolic the better---and turn it into a virtual fact in the minds of their gullible base.

But still, we can all dream.

Fla Dem

(23,693 posts)
85. I know, I keep hearing about these rumors, and then nothing happens.
Mon Jun 18, 2018, 09:37 AM
Jun 2018

If it's going to happen, it's going to happen. Heck the earliest rumors were that Hillary was going to win, then Trump wasn't going to last 6 months. Hmmm.

saidsimplesimon

(7,888 posts)
38. The mind must see before the results
Sat Jun 16, 2018, 06:03 PM
Jun 2018

are in. Don't discount the power, unless you are a surrender before fighting advocate. just my opinion

saidsimplesimon

(7,888 posts)
40. It's not just him, for me.
Sat Jun 16, 2018, 06:13 PM
Jun 2018

Yes, I am a dreamer.

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BobTheSubgenius

(11,564 posts)
71. Are we to choose only one of those?
Sun Jun 17, 2018, 12:16 PM
Jun 2018

I'd like to upgrade my package and take all 3, and, if the bump isn't unaffordable, I'd like to change "home" to "prison." Is that possible?

malaise

(269,064 posts)
7. ROFL
Sat Jun 16, 2018, 04:39 PM
Jun 2018

Keep it secret

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
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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.

onenote

(42,715 posts)
72. If you believe these rumors are "rampant", point to some examples
Sun Jun 17, 2018, 12:31 PM
Jun 2018

Surely, they'd be all over the Internet from a multitude of sources.

Better question than why are some of us naysayers about this OP is why you blindly believe it.

whathehell

(29,067 posts)
80. I don't "blindly believe" shit..
Mon Jun 18, 2018, 05:54 AM
Jun 2018

but I don't automatically dis things because it's the first I'm hearing of it, either. Have a good one.

Salviati

(6,008 posts)
44. I think ironically, possibly the biggest threat they may face is from trump.
Sat Jun 16, 2018, 06:20 PM
Jun 2018

If he's going down I could see him going all scorched earth and bringing down as many people with him as possible. He's got no loyalty to anyone but himself, and if he did keep the goods on them, I could see him pulling the trigger on releasing it once his fate is sealed.

PSPS

(13,603 posts)
18. McClatchy did a piece last year on kremlin money going to Ryan. McConnell, Scott Walker and others.
Sat Jun 16, 2018, 04:51 PM
Jun 2018

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
56. Yes, but they wrote the laws that provided a
Sat Jun 16, 2018, 07:52 PM
Jun 2018

legal means via PACs and super PACs. Still hoping for greedy sloppiness, of course.

It's absolutely amazing how arrogantly sloppy so many of these Trump-connected criminals are, but ex- prosecutors say they see it's actually normal among criminals and they see it all the time.

Frustratedlady

(16,254 posts)
11. Well, finally! Looks like someone wiped that smirk off his face.
Sat Jun 16, 2018, 04:42 PM
Jun 2018

Get your sleep while you can, Mitchie! Those clanging cell doors have to be disturbing when you're trying to get some rest.

pnwmom

(108,980 posts)
16. Michael Cohen, as recently as a couple months ago, was the Deputy Chair of the RNC finance
Sat Jun 16, 2018, 04:49 PM
Jun 2018

committee.

Just imagine what the NY prosecutor is finding in his treasure trove of emails and recordings!

calguy

(5,315 posts)
23. When I see a tweet like this coming fron the Washington Post
Sat Jun 16, 2018, 05:13 PM
Jun 2018

I'll give it a little more credibility.

Crutchez_CuiBono

(7,725 posts)
24. Wishful thinking.
Sat Jun 16, 2018, 05:14 PM
Jun 2018

This seems like it's moving at a glacial pace and is going to go on for a long time. Now we can watch the spectacle of Manaforts trials and conveniently forget 'Ivankar', don jr., Pence and dt himself. Probably Melania has been riding dirty as well. Eric? Gods only knows. He seems to be close to half way through his admin I was sure wouldn't last 6 months. How wrong I was.

coeur_de_lion

(3,680 posts)
25. Oh please please please
Sat Jun 16, 2018, 05:28 PM
Jun 2018

I will be good. I'll go to church every day. I'll start tithing, even.

If they round up Nunes Ryan and McConnell I will turn over a new leaf and stop trash talking Republicans.

What am I saying, I will NEVER stop trash talking them.

But otherwise I'll be very very good.

The reason I think it is unlikely this will happen is, Ryan and McConnell both fairly recently said they stand behind Mueller. They wouldn't say that if they thought there was even the tiniest chance they were included in the investigation.

But it sure is nice to dream.

duforsure

(11,885 posts)
26. That's why,
Sat Jun 16, 2018, 05:30 PM
Jun 2018

Mitch is now wanting it ended too. That's going to make it worse for Mitch showing he is working with them to obstruct justice because he knows he's closing in fast on him, but it won't matter, he'll be exposed along with Nunes and many others . The GOP in Congress are too late to stop it, and they're in a world of trouble with the crime family i the white House.

Jim__

(14,077 posts)
27. Is Giuliani spreading that rumor?
Sat Jun 16, 2018, 05:30 PM
Jun 2018

If it's true and the republicans in congress are aware of it, they'd tell Trump to fire Mueller and they would support his action. Who could stop it?

marieo1

(1,402 posts)
31. minngal
Sat Jun 16, 2018, 05:38 PM
Jun 2018

McConnell is one huge creep. He should have been gone a long time ago. I hope and pray Mueller takes all of these derelicts out.

dawnie51

(959 posts)
32. Sweet Jesus!
Sat Jun 16, 2018, 05:40 PM
Jun 2018

Let is happen! The behind the curtain operators have to be exposed as thoroughly as the orange buffoon in the spotlight. This has to happen.

gibraltar72

(7,506 posts)
33. I actually think someone posted
Sat Jun 16, 2018, 05:54 PM
Jun 2018

maybe here maybe not. That subpoenas indicated Mueller was going after members of congress but names and titles were redacted on the copies that were seen. We know Turtle was in Trump tower the same day Vekselberg was. I believe Avenatti released that. Maybe Vekselberg who I believe has been interviewed twice ratted out the rat.

japple

(9,833 posts)
34. Please send out positive thoughts, prayers for protection for Mr. Mueller
Sat Jun 16, 2018, 05:58 PM
Jun 2018

or whatever kind of energy you believe in. It is important. Hoping this rumor turns out to be more real than not.

Yellowdog88

(66 posts)
42. Dream scenario
Sat Jun 16, 2018, 06:15 PM
Jun 2018

Is for these 3 to go down in this order in spectacular fashion. Nunes first in some kind of perp walk would make my year. Ryan because he has used his boyish personna to perpetrate his ugly Ayn Rand dream. McConnell would be quite special given his smug defiance and longevity.

Please let this happen!

dragonlady

(3,577 posts)
57. Interestingly, Scott Walker was in the mix of recipients
Sat Jun 16, 2018, 08:13 PM
Jun 2018

For the $1,000,000 he took, let's add him to your list.

And welcome to DU!

demmiblue

(36,865 posts)
43. Random Twitter account...
Sat Jun 16, 2018, 06:15 PM
Jun 2018


The proliferation of these types of "sources" on DU is becoming embarrassing (actually, it has been embarrassing for quite some time). I will wait for a credible source.

DownriverDem

(6,229 posts)
50. Makes sense
Sat Jun 16, 2018, 07:09 PM
Jun 2018

If Russian money is connected to the NRA, it's hard not to think that repub leaders have the same connection.

Warren_Pointe

(328 posts)
53. The fix was in for a long time.
Sat Jun 16, 2018, 07:31 PM
Jun 2018

Why else would they hold up a SCOTUS appointment if there were the slightest chance of HRC doing the appointing? They knew.

KewlKat

(5,624 posts)
60. I hope he throws in Ryan, Pence, the first couple, Miller and all the other
Sun Jun 17, 2018, 12:35 AM
Jun 2018

Rat bastards trying to end democracy. Lock them all up and throw away the keys!

61. The Mueller investigators do not leak, so I don't know where this rumor is coming from.
Sun Jun 17, 2018, 01:34 AM
Jun 2018

Sounds more like wishful thinking to me.

Bettie

(16,111 posts)
66. We can hope
Sun Jun 17, 2018, 09:14 AM
Jun 2018

that he is.

Yeah, we'll probably still have them to deal with going forward, but it's nice to imagine them in prison. So, nice.

On the other hand, in the past, powerful congresscritters have been taken down by illegal activity, so there is hope that these guys will as well.

usaf-vet

(6,189 posts)
73. Please let this be true! Please let them face punishment for their total disregard for....
Sun Jun 17, 2018, 03:20 PM
Jun 2018

the rule of law.
the greed they display.
the treasonous acts they ignore.
all the obstruction of justice they ignore or participate in.
failing to honor the oath of office..."support and defend the Constitution against all enemies foreign AND domestic."
always favoring party over Country.
last but not least.. not being a decent caring human being.

Calista241

(5,586 posts)
75. This is pure wishful thinking.
Sun Jun 17, 2018, 09:54 PM
Jun 2018

Mueller's mandate doesn't extend that far. And unless they're all on tape raping a 9 year old, our larger population would never believe that it isn't politically motivated.

Trump would pardon everyone, there'd be a special council investigating Mueller, and we'd lose our best chance to get rid of Trump.

VOX

(22,976 posts)
78. "Rumours" is an LP by Fleetwood Mac.
Sun Jun 17, 2018, 10:15 PM
Jun 2018

And “rumors” about TrumpCo’s demise are about as effective as playing that LP in hopes of turning aside this fascist coup.

Facts are what's needed, and even that is difficult, in that Republicans aren’t much interested in facts or the very reality in which they exist.

The last, best hope of containing IQ45 comes in November, when ALL Democrats and progressives must VOTE the bastards OUT!

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