GOOD GOD SOMEONE FINALLY SAID IT OUT LOUD!!!

[kpete]

Link to tweet

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WASHINGTON – Today Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel and RNC Finance Chairman Steve Wynn announced additional members of the RNC’s Finance leadership team:

“I am delighted to announce the addition of these longtime friends of the Party and supporters of this administration to our Finance leadership team,” said Chairwoman McDaniel. “Elliott Broidy, Michael Cohen, and Louis DeJoy will serve as National Deputy Finance Chairmen, and Brian Ballard, Bob Grand, Gordon Sondland, Geoff Verhoff, and Ron Weiser will serve as Regional Vice-Chairmen. Together this team will employ their extraordinary talent and understanding of Americans across the country to maintain and build upon our unprecedented fundraising success.”

"Our team is dedicated to the goal of increasing the number of Republican senators and representatives in the Congress, with the firm belief that all Americans will enjoy the benefits of a better future," said Chairman Wynn. "The challenge of guiding a swollen and overreaching government to a position that serves its citizens in a truly efficient manner will be best served by the leadership our team hopes to achieve."

https://gop.com/rnc-announces-additions-to-rnc-finance-leadership-team/

Stuart Shaffer April 09 · 08:26:52 PM
I think Mr. Mueller is finding, through the investigation of Manafort/Gates/Cohen, that numerous foreign nationals laundered campaign contributions for Trump through various Republicans and their organizations (e.g. NRA et al). Some of that information will be found in the documents seized today.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/4/9/1755779/-The-reasons-for-the-Cohen-raid-are-less-about-Stormy-whether-you-believe-witches-hunting#comment_69825889

[underpants]

1. Follow the 💰

[nolabels]

9. Jebus, underpants follow the money is like following the mob !

Got this link from there, I am kind of slow sometimes, I am guessing probably a lot of people have already seen something like it

[nmgaucho]

25. Fascinating stuff, thanks!

[Honeycombe8]

32. If you notice, Trump&friends often use the word "family." As in "Gotti Family." "Trump's like family

Cohen has said it. Paul Ryan has said it. Trump has said it, referring to his own real family, and others.

It really seems like a mob family with associates and hit men.

[kentuck]

2. This is the present elephant in the room no one seems to want to talk about?

Good on Chris!

[onit2day]

16. Obama predicted this after Citizens United.

[MontanaMama]

3. RNC finances reside in

the deep end of the pool (swamp), IMO. There's got to be all kinds of good stuff there...

[The_jackalope]

4. Ohhhh RICO... nt

[poboy2]

28. ...suave. -nt

[Ilsa]

33. LOL!!!

Somebody had to say it!

[spanone]

5. K&R...

[Achilleaze]

6. republicans pissing all over America

in so many ways.

Overall, republicans are engaged in absolute BETRAYAL not just of America and the truth, but also in absolute BETRAYAL of all that is good and decent.

republican moral and ethical rot is total.

[Wounded Bear]

7. I guess there really is a vast right wing conspiracy...

[shanti]

12. But of course

They are masters of projection.

[Nitram]

23. Yes, Bear, that was neither a joke nor an exaggeration.

Hillary Clinton used the term back in 1998, and it wasn't a joke. Most people did, however, laugh at it. They had not yet connected the dots.

[flibbitygiblets]

35. No one's laughing now

[Nitram]

37. OK, you just made me laugh!

[mountain grammy]

8. K & R

[flying_wahini]

10. Things are gonna get even uglier.

[FakeNoose]

11. Kick & Rec - Bookmarked

Thanks for this, kpete! This is the very big story that sometimes gets overlooked.

[dameatball]

13. This is why people have asked "Why are Ryan and McConnell doing nothing?"

Because it involves much of the GOP fundraising.

[Drahthaardogs]

14. They ALL took the dirty Russian money!

All you need to know.

[Stonepounder]

15. Why do you think the Rethugs in Congress are either

a) deserting the sinking ship and announcing they are not going to run again or
b) keeping very, very quiet (I looking at YOU Mitch and Paul!)

[angrychair]

17. Lets not forget co-vice chair Broidy, convicted felon

Who somehow managed a reduced sentence by turning evidence against the very people he bribed.

So, in summary:
two of three RNC financial vice-chairs have been either raided by the FBI and/or arrested and convicted of crimes.

[oasis]

18. Stay on 'em!

[Gothmog]

19. LOL

[workinclasszero]

20. The Republican party falls under the RICO act

IMO

[Nitram]

24. We should stop calling it the republican "Party", and call it the Republican Crime Syndicate.

[Ilsa]

34. Agreed. Truth hurts. nt

[nolabels]

21. So many of these stories are starting to be interconnected into one lumpy mess

Intertwined and the only out they have is saying they knew nothing about it even though they deposited the checks in their bank.

They are becoming the subjects of an investigation in a system they used themselves to be unkind to others.

Ronnie kind of warned them and said it himself

GIS: A Visual Approach - Page 1 - Google Books Result
https://books.google.com/books?isbn=076682764X
Bruce Ellsworth Davis - 2001 - ‎Science
—Ronald Reagan, U.S President, 1985 "Unless we can find some way to keep up with, and our sights on, tomorrow, we cannot expect to be in touch with today. " —Dean Rusk, U.S Secretary of ... As societies enter the Information Age, technology becomes more influential and more important. GIS plays a substantial role in

No fan of Ronnie but it's funny how he still haunts them

[erronis]

26. Sometime "big data" and the ability to connect the dots is what we need.

Panama Papers, Paradise Papers.

Back in the dark ages (10+ years ago) the only organizations that could sift through those mounds of data were the intelligence communities.

Now, each one of us can download public datasets with named names, organizations, dates, addresses, and linkages between them. While this is a huge task, there are lots of eager researchers poring over this type of material.

I'm not sure how "they" can shut us up anymore. Knowledge is power.

[Enoki33]

22. Seems it is more than wild speculation that the RNC and NRA

are in bed with the Russians. No wonder tRump is untouchable to them, and that they (RNC) were paying Jnr’s. legal bills.

[KrazyinKS]

27. That's got to be it

When all those Republicans stayed to oddly quiet, no outrage at all. It leads me to think there are a lot of dirty hands out there. That is an old trick , that is how you get people to stay quiet include them in on the action and then they can't speak up.

[marble falls]

29. The shoes are finaly falling.

[orangecrush]

30. K&R

[KY_EnviroGuy]

31. Raises a question of far larger scope.

It's becoming obvious that money from foreign interests can find its way into our political campaigns without coming into the sunlight or being reported. I would suspect that billionaires and corporations around the globe are doing this and in some very sinister ways. They've probably been doing this for decades.

Not only do we need to reverse Citizens United to keep American campaign dollars relatively clean and to limit undue influence of the wealthy, I believe we also need a system in place that tests the original source of all moneys applied to campaigns.

Our current system of finding out about foreign funding purely by accident is not protecting our democracy.

....... ..........

[poboy2]

36. great post/points.