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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRachel Maddow: Why hasn't Jill Stein said anything about the Trump-Russia scandal?
MSNBCs Rachel Maddow called out Jill Stein for her silence on the widening Russia scandal engulfing the Trump administration.
Maddow appeared last week on Vicelands Desus and Mero program, where she brought up a photo showing Stein, the Green Party candidate for president, sitting with Vladimir Putin and Michael Flynn, reported DeadState.
Flynn resigned earlier this month as national security adviser for misleading the vice president about his communications with the Russian ambassador, and other Trump advisers are under investigation for their ties to Russia.
The photo was taken in 2015, when Stein and Flynn were invited to Moscow for the 10th anniversary banquet for RT Russias state-owned news network aimed at English-speaking countries.
Maddow cast suspicion on Steins silence over alleged Russian attempts to interfere with the election to benefit Donald Trump, who she claimed during her own campaign would govern no differently than Hillary Clinton.
So everybodys like, Wow, how come this like super, super aggressive opposition that we saw from these third-party candidates how come they havent said anything since this scandal has broken? Maddow said.
I dont know, Jill I cant pronounce it in Russian, Maddow said, with apparent sarcasm. Hope youre really psyched about your Wisconsin vote totals.
Its not clear who paid for Steins trip to Russia in December 2015, although a former British spy claims in the infamous golden showers memo that the Kremlin did so indirectly.
Stein and her campaign have refused to comment on the matter.
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/02/rachel-maddow-why-hasnt-jill-stein-said-anything-about-the-trump-russia-scandal/
Mike Nelson
(9,966 posts)...paid her well, I guess. Apparently the deal is like Trump's and includes a silence clause.
Cha
(297,655 posts)it be for transparency sake?
Thank you, stillone~
sagesnow
(2,824 posts)Can we follow the money from Russia into her campaigne coffers?
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,036 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,036 posts)DURHAM D
(32,611 posts)Why didn't you report it when it mattered Rachel?
I didn't hear anyone talking about this when it supposedly mattered
Don't really give a shit now
Stinky The Clown
(67,818 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,036 posts)Whatever amount Maddow reported in the general election campaign, others have more to answer for in the Not-Reporting Department than she.
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)interference in our elections.
DonCoquixote
(13,616 posts)are funny, brilliant and merciless.