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Right Turn Opinion by Jennifer Rubin
February 23 at 12:30 PM
Until this week, the Russia connections of President Trump, his advisers and his campaign were only a media story, a trigger for international intelligence investigations (foreign intelligence services, like ours, are running down leads, no doubt) and a foreign policy nightmare (Will he betray Europe? Will he relax sanctions?). Now it is a political nightmare for Republicans.
The intrigue surrounding Michael T. Flynn put the story front and center. The Senate Intelligence Committees renewed vigor suggests that there is something to be found ...
Meanwhile, Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), who sits on the Senate Intelligence Committee, created a stir on Thursday during a radio interview when she suggested that Flynn should come testify. Even more significant, when asked about using the subpoena power to demand the presidents tax returns, she said: I dont know whether we will need to do that. If its necessary to get to the answers, then I suspect that we would.
Well, absent a full voluntary disclosure of Trumps finances, we find it hard to see how it would not be necessary. Quite apart from Russia, a flurry of reports on his trademarks bestowed by foreign powers suggests that he has a serious emoluments problem under the Constitution. With regard to Russia specifically, the plot keeps thickening. The New York Times reported that longtime Trump attorney Michael Cohen met with pro-Russia Ukrainian lawmaker Andrii V. Artemenko and Felix H. Sater, a Trump associate who helped search for business deals in Russia (where Trump says he has no connections) as late as 2015. Now Ukraine is looking at treason charges against Artemenko. Shouldnt Cohen and Sater, at the very least, be called to testify about Russian deals involving Trump? ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2017/02/23/trumps-russia-scandal-reaches-a-political-tipping-point/?utm_term=.a236af9cebee
annabanana
(52,791 posts)get the red out
(13,468 posts)If he were a democrat, he would be impeached and imprisoned by now. Of course, if he were a democrat, he would never have been elected.
ailsagirl
(22,899 posts)Glad he didn't choose Dems !!!!!!!!!!!
fun n serious
(4,451 posts)We should all click and read this.
sarah FAILIN
(2,857 posts)So no reading for me..
irisblue
(33,023 posts)& 10 more when you go in under incognito mode, 😙
..pro tip. Hope this helps
sarah FAILIN
(2,857 posts)I've already exceeded my limit on my phone.
So I cleared the cookies on my home computer and got in, lol.
Thanks!
klook
(12,165 posts)If you're getting a message that says something like you've reached the maximum no. of articles you can read without a subscription, you should be able to delete cookies and browsing history and get a new lease on life, or at least a new lease on a web site.
sarah FAILIN
(2,857 posts)I've not figured it out on my phone.
BSdetect
(8,999 posts)The law is there and must be repected.
That he is getting away with multiple crimes is beyond belief.
They are ignoring obvious chances to pin him down.
When will this become a problem for the GOP? Never?
Skittles
(153,193 posts)WTF
Pacifist Patriot
(24,654 posts)triron
(22,020 posts)and guilty of some serious violation of federal law.
triron
(22,020 posts)triron
(22,020 posts)triron
(22,020 posts)Raster
(20,998 posts)BadgerMom
(2,771 posts)Ilsa
(61,698 posts)Stories, and FBI said fugeddabboutit.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,036 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,036 posts)Martin Eden
(12,875 posts)... instead of the totally irrelevant Weiner emails, would Hillary Clinton be POTUS?