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(113,063 posts)BeyondGeography
(39,374 posts)Im definitely having a better night than Paul Erickson.
Volaris
(10,271 posts)And the RNC..it went through the NRA.
If so much as the janitor at NRA HQ knew about this, there's no way there's not a RICO indictment attached to this heh....
blm
(113,063 posts)dameatball
(7,398 posts)among Repubs, something else entirely or all of the above. But it sure as hell is interesting to see what comes out of this.
brush
(53,779 posts)the dirty money dealings of the NRA is also going to be spotlighted.
WheelWalker
(8,955 posts)Botany
(70,508 posts)Say goodbye Donnie & maybe Pence too.
This Russia/Trump thing has been going on for years and she was a Russian agent.
dalton99a
(81,512 posts)Botany
(70,508 posts)... our election systems but an act of war by a hostile foreign power. And look now and you can see Russian influence on the riots in Paris, Bretex, and America's democracy and the people who went along with this are guilty of treason. (After a fair trial)
Funny how the NRA has gone broke after their links to Russia were exposed. My Senator, Portman, got millions from the NRA/Russia and millions more in dark money TV ads that helped him and Trump in Ohio because of citizens United.
erronis
(15,273 posts)I don't use the anachronism Russia anymore since Putin is just trying to regenerate his childhood motherland - the Soviets.
This does not just come from the Kremlin or other foreign agents. It is supported by and influenced by many US plutocrats/oligarchs such as the Mercers and Kochs.
I hope that the Mueller probes as well as heightened awareness by governments and justice will identify many more culpables. Perhaps the whole of the (R)epuglicon congress.
And don't cry for the NRA. They've stashed a lot of funds and weapons just in case.
watoos
(7,142 posts)on what kind of cooperation deal she agreed to. If she is spilling her guts the minute she touches down in Russia she is dead.
I'm hopeful that she is connecting the dots between Russian money to NRA to Trump/GOP, but that hasn't been confirmed yet.
triron
(22,006 posts)mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)Please ... at this stage, that claim means ZERO.
Even less really because she's almost certainly a highly-trained Intel Asset, unlike either PM or MC.
.99center
(1,237 posts)dalton99a
(81,512 posts)Leghorn21
(13,524 posts)Just say NYET, ya fuckin traitor
and fuck right off
brush
(53,779 posts)blm
(113,063 posts).
tblue37
(65,377 posts)Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)None of these people - from trmp on down - thought they would ever get caught. They all thought they were so clever, so much smarter than anyone. They thought they could pull all of this off and no one would be able to see through the smoke and mirrors. Listen to Roger Stone for chrissakes. He actually thinks he is Jason Bourne. That trmpie jr. thought of himself as a major player or Kushner thought he was the master of international intrigue, for that matter. It's just madness.
When you live on Arrogance Avenue in FantasyLand, you'll believe in anything.
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)Apollyonus
(812 posts)and point to the honchos in the NRA who laundered money for Trump.
This will be painful to the NRA .... I love it.
watoos
(7,142 posts)nothing has been confirmed yet. The type of cooperation she is doing has not been confirmed. If she spills her guts when she is sent back to Russia she is dead.
Apollyonus
(812 posts)Jarqui
(10,125 posts)Some interesting tweets on the subject
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erronis
(15,273 posts)Jarqui
(10,125 posts)i can't vouch for them all.
But watching Rachel's show tonight, Butina could blows the doors open on this scandal from some of the stuff tweeted above
brush
(53,779 posts)watoos
(7,142 posts)that so far she has only plead guilty to not registering as an agent of a foreign government.
EleanorR
(2,391 posts)"Putin loves Obama, Putin hates Obama, everyone hates us, I know Putin..."
And mentioning it would be bad if Russia and China started deaiing, well that's just what trump has managed to facilitate.
BigmanPigman
(51,593 posts)Volaris
(10,271 posts)But never released what they found there. I got fifty bucks that says a lot of it was Kompromat on top GOPers, that they held as leverage, and this chic is gonna give up the 'paper trail'.
erronis
(15,273 posts)Or is that laying?
triron
(22,006 posts)Source TRMS
watoos
(7,142 posts)and I didn't hear that, maybe I dozed off.
Ilsa
(61,695 posts)bank CEO job and no one has heard much of anything from him. I wonder if he is in hiding, wondering if Putin will take him out?
Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)Blue_true
(31,261 posts)The FSB will find him.
ffr
(22,670 posts)And something about Ivanka Trump being the glue, but I'm too lazy to go find what her tie was to them.
It's a total clusterfuck of a utopian swamp. The individual-1's corruption leads from him, to his family, to his inner circle, to his outer circle, to Mitch McConnell's wife, to complicit Paul Ryan sitting on this thumbs and beyond.
Unbelievable!!!
Enoki33
(1,587 posts)be considered that he sees he can no longer protect dotard, and has given Butina the green light to create as much chaos as possible by exposing the corrupt underbelly of our democratic process. Turmoil is one of the unstated goals of attacking Western democracies in the Kremlins quest for geopolitical domination. The answer may be found if she lives a long life.
watoos
(7,142 posts)I watched Rachel and her Daily Beast guest and I don't remember her saying that Butina promised to "fully" cooperate. The statement I heard was that they didn't know the extent of her cooperation agreement.