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malaise

(268,931 posts)
Fri Jan 4, 2019, 05:46 PM Jan 2019

Apparently the Con forgot that Kevin is the one who told ReTHUGs that Putin paid him

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=.e5103b93b736

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.

Now he is a self righteous scumbag

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/1/4/18168461/kevin-mccarthy-rashida-tlaib-profanity
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Apparently the Con forgot that Kevin is the one who told ReTHUGs that Putin paid him (Original Post) malaise Jan 2019 OP
McCarthy knew. dalton99a Jan 2019 #1
Did you hear the Con earlier malaise Jan 2019 #2
I must have missed that part of the insanity dalton99a Jan 2019 #6
Didn't Ryan say to keep it "in the family"? BigmanPigman Jan 2019 #3
Yes indeed malaise Jan 2019 #4
They are almost all guilty of treason. There is no degree of being a traitor. BSdetect Jan 2019 #5

malaise

(268,931 posts)
2. Did you hear the Con earlier
Fri Jan 4, 2019, 05:50 PM
Jan 2019

on Kevin and Russia? He must be stark raving mad.
Let me try and find the clip

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