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https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/01/nancy-pelosi-mitch-mcconnell-russia?utm_social-type=owned&utm_medium=social&mbid=social_facebook&utm_source=facebook&utm_brand=vf&fbclid=IwAR0-EcNckob4AVmirYDmsYRxusLGcCG-m9HstzmRNmUNLqD5KPCPgmcIh9UNancy Pelosi: What Kind of Sick S--t Do the Russians Have on Mitch McConnell?
The House Speaker can think of no other way to explain the senators behavior.
By Bess Levin
January 14, 2020
On Tuesday, nearly a month after the House of Representatives officially voted to impeach Donald Trump, Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced that the House would vote Wednesday to send its impeachment charges to the Senate, kicking off a process that will likely result in a trial starting next week. The American people deserve the truth, and the Constitution demands a trial, Pelosi said in a statement. The House will now proceed with a vote on transmitting the articles of impeachment and naming impeachment managers on Wednesday, January 15. Referencing the fact that Senate Republicans like Mitch McConnell have refused to hear new, relevant information concerning the presidents attempt to extort Ukraine for his personal benefit, Pelosi noted that the American people will fully understand the Senates move to begin the trial without witnesses and documents as a pure political cover-up. Leader McConnell and the president are afraid of more facts coming to light. And that represented the high point of her comments about the senator from Kentucky.
Speaking at a closed-door meeting of her caucus about the Russian hack into Burisma, i.e., the Ukrainian energy company whose dealings with Hunter Biden and Joe Biden Trump tried to get President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate, Pelosi reportedly tore McConnell a proverbial new one, charging that hes acting like a rogue leader, an accusation she also made last month that is, of course, entirely accurate. Sources told CNN that Pelosi then mused that sometimes she wonders whether McConnell has Russian connections.
McConnell does not appear to have responded to Pelosis comments, though based on his previous reaction to similar allegations, hes likely already thrown several hissy fits in his Senate office. Last July, when the Washington Post ran an op-ed saying that McConnell is, arguably more than any other American, doing Russian president Vladimir Putins bidding, after he blocked numerous bills intended to prevent election meddlingincluding one that would have required presidential campaigns to report any offers of assistance from agents of foreign governmentsMcConnell had a massive conniption on the Senate floor. I was called unpatriotic, un-American, and, essentially, treasonous by a couple of left-wing pundits on the basis of boldfaced lies, he whined. I was accused of aiding and abetting the very man Ive singled out as our adversary and opposed for nearly 20 years: Vladimir Putin. He went on to describe the op-ed and other attacks as modern-day McCarthyism, claiming these pundits are lying when they dismiss the work that has been done, and failing to mention all the bills he kneecapped that would protect U.S. elections, perhaps because such interference would benefit Republicans like himself and the president.
So yeah, an angry tantrum is probably around the corner.
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)McTurtle cares nothing for the USA.
mitch96
(13,927 posts)2naSalit
(86,824 posts)duforsure
(11,885 posts)Discovered their crimes with elections , and has given him and their party bribes to do as they want , especially to not convict trump, and at some point lift their sanctions for helping them get re-elected by hackings, and using propaganda, which republicans are helping them spread for Putin.They also may have Moscow Mitch's wife caught taking bribes too.
TheRealNorth
(9,500 posts)SunSeeker
(51,740 posts)DENVERPOPS
(8,847 posts)Election money from Putin, saudis, Chinese oligarch parents of his wife.
Also graphic sexual shit Putin has on Trump, Lindsey, and probably a whole big bunch of Republican Senators and other politicians across the U.S. including military, police, governors, JUDGES, etc etc etc.
It truly is like a government run MAFIA............
onetexan
(13,067 posts)Moscow Mitch in deed
paparush
(7,964 posts)Would the GOP really be so stupid as to discuss election fraud, bribery, etc, via RNC email? Then I think..yeah, of course they would.
The_REAL_Ecumenist
(729 posts)DEFINITELY!! After this interview, they need to do what my Grandpa would ALWAYS say, (STILL miss him & I'm always on the brink of tears when I think about him...), "Give your soul to GOD & your ass TO ME!" XD OR lie I always say, "Bend over & kiss your ass GOODBYE!"
Ponietz
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Itll pop just like any other tick.
mitch96
(13,927 posts)Botany
(70,599 posts)From the Vanity Fair article: Sources told CNN that Pelosi then mused that sometimes she wonders
whether McConnell has Russian connections.
Tanuki
(14,923 posts)in Putin's pocket. As usual, Madam Speaker aims her shiv with surgical precision.
MontanaMama
(23,344 posts)If the truth hurts, then by all means avoid it, eh Moscow Mitch?
smb
(3,475 posts)DENVERPOPS
(8,847 posts)Favorite involving a paper towel tube and a gerbil ??
You know that Lindsey bad mouthed Trump continuously, he gets invited to dinner one weekend by
Trump, and suddenly Lindsey is singing nothing but praise for Trump. Remember his major rants praising Kavanauh during the hearings?
Trump merely showed him 8x10 color glossies and high quality color videos Putin sent Trump showing Lindsey doing some perverse sexual acts with one of his boy friends. You know like Stormy Daniels but with a male pornstar......
Then a big whole bonch of pictures of a ton of Republican Senators, along with proof of major campaign donations of Russian money funneled into the senators campaigns by way of the NRA and Mitchie......
panfluteman
(2,070 posts)The hacking operation on the Democratic side was revealed to the public to influence the election in Donald Trump's favor, and the hacking of the Republicans, especially GOP leaders like Moscow Mitch, was done behind the scenes for the purposes of Kompromat and blackmail. And, in Moscow Mitch's case, I believe it began very early. How ealse do you explain his holding off on Merrick Garland ( he knew that the Russians would interfere on their behalf in 2016) as well as his refusal to sign a bipartisan declaration condemning Russian interference during the 2016 election?
Just on a sheer quantitative scale, I believe that Donald Trump has done more for Russia than Moscow Mitch - but Moscow Mitch sure comes in a close second.
TheRealNorth
(9,500 posts)Remember the RNC was being run by former WI Republicans like Reince Priebus. I never bought the "he ran out of campaign money" B.S. , not when you had Charles and David Koch as your sugardaddies.
Paul Ryan likely knew as well, and I think that after he got his tax cuts, he quit so that if it ever got out there would be some distance.
I DO wonder what Rupert Murdoch is getting out of the arrangement.
volstork
(5,403 posts)Ratfcking on a gargantuan scale.
uponit7771
(90,367 posts)Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)Since most of his money was obtained through nefarious means, naturally he can't reveal it. If you imagine his ability to murder people outside Russia, further imagine how he can murder people inside Russia and just the threat of such violence.
Sell me your business at 50% of what it's worth or Grandma gets mailed to you a piece at a time. Everyone else is going to be giving him protection money.
LiberalLovinLug
(14,178 posts)Vladimir Putin Is Reportedly Richer Than Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos Combined
Bezos is the official richest man alive. But the actual richest man alive is Putin. I'm just sad for the Russian people. Think of how much progress could have been done in Russia since Glasnost if that money, including all the money his oligarch peers in his inner circle also have stolen, were put to social spending, infrastructure etc.
bdamomma
(63,930 posts)Pepsidog
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postponed the vote on sending the articles of impeachment to the Senate. That would have caused a huge outcry and made this new evidence more than a 24 hour news story. Thats what Rs would have done.
dajoki
(10,678 posts)she could have let the new evidence be investigated thoroughly, who knows where that would lead and what more is still yet to be exposed. I do trust her though.
lastlib
(23,314 posts)Send over Article 2 (obstruction of Congress) for trial--but hold Article 1 (abuse/Ukraine) in abeyance, and tell Moscow Mitch that new evidence needs to be investigated. Make Little Donny and MoscowMitch fume thru TWO trials. Force the second trial to coincide with RNC convention, or maybe just before.
Pepsidog
(6,254 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,468 posts)mitch96
(13,927 posts)He crosses PUtin or Derapaska, the plant and the jobs go byby.....
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58Sunliner
(4,414 posts)gab13by13
(21,432 posts)She shouldn't have to do this on her own. C'mon Democrats get the hell out in front of the press and raise hell. Ask about whether our ambassador was about to be assassinated. A squeaky wheel gets the grease. Keep pounding this new dump of emails. We can't allow the criminal Republicans to control the narrative.
Gosh darn, I miss Al Franken right now. Maybe I just haven't listened in the right places but I haven't heard very much from Kirsten.
triron
(22,025 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,047 posts)Yes, I know you don't have quote marks in the headline. But it does seem wrong.
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Amaryllis
(9,525 posts)stopdiggin
(11,384 posts)she did not say these words. more sloppy reporting.
(gist of the story is Pelosi is furious with McConnell's pro Trump, pro Putin stances .. OTHER people have suggested kompromat. that doesn't excuse misquoting and putting words in people's mouths.)
TygrBright
(20,772 posts)MarcA
(2,195 posts)matt819
(10,749 posts)for journalists and historians who have some time on their hands.
Review every major (and probably some less major) decisions that the buffoon has made since January 2017.
Step one. Brief review of the issue.
Step two. The most appropriate US decision/action on this issue. One that rational minds would argue benefits the US in terms of domestic and foreign policy, national security, and the like.
Step three. What would be, let's say, a compromise position due to budgetary issues or anything else. A reasonable compromise for appropriate reasons.
Step four. If a Russian were the president of the United States, what would that Russian want the US to decide/take action on, etc., and why.
Step five. What did this regime do, and why? If the same action were taken by, let's say, George Bush, what would the reaction be? Putting aside Trump's insanity, could it be argued and justified as beneficial to the US?
We all - justifiably in my view - accuse Trump of being a Russian asset and of making decisions in Russia's best interest, not ours. I believe that to be 110% true. But a critical analysis would be welcome.
Of course, this could be the subject to an ongoing series or a book, and we all know that historians are going to spend decades on this era, but something concise and readable and not hysterical might be useful.
bdamomma
(63,930 posts)for Mitch's opponent, Amy McGrath.
Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)that exist nowhere but in their minds, but they will pull out every single nasty trick they can to paint her as ______________ (fill in the blank).
I keep hoping that someone in her camp will force McConnell to address his service record.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,047 posts)Crowman2009
(2,499 posts)trueblue2007
(17,240 posts)Stuff is on sound and tape !!!.
.Netflix !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
tiptonic
(765 posts)What about his Chinese wife? Plenty of money going around.
warmfeet
(3,321 posts)I have seen the film the birth of a nation. Racist fucking filth.
I am now seeing, in real time, the death of a nation. Still racist, and still fucking filth.
Good times, huh?
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NCLefty
(3,678 posts)And they've had 20 years to find something. It's possible. /shrug
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)That is all.