GOP is engaged in massive cover-up.

[kentuck]

Not just in their refusal to examine the notes of the translator in the secret meeting of Trump and Putin but in numerous activities involving their complicity with this fake President.

For example, yesterday out of blue, they passed legislation to prevent the IRS from making public where "dark money" came from for charitable organizations. In effect, and most specifically, it was a "Protect the NRA" Bill. They cannot afford for the truth to be exposed about Russia, the NRA, and the Republican Party. It is a cover-up of massive proportions.

[Orsino]

1. Cover-ups are their platform.

It's been a whole thing for decades now.

[DownriverDem]

27. Follow the money

The NRA got russian money which they funneled to the repubs.

[dalton99a]

2. They are 1,000% in cahoots with the traitor.

[sandensea]

36. ANYTHING to win.

Which goes back to our unfortunate condition as a plutocracy: plutocrats own the GOPee; but the latter, in turn, is expected to produce results for them early and often.

And to do that, they have to win, win, win - no matter what.

Putin? No problem.

Vote rigging? Happy to do it.

Narcos? No problemo.

[erlewyne]

51. It's not politics anymore

Bone spurs is a spy and I know it and all I can do is vote.
If I was a GOP congress person and felt this way it would be treason,
I mean, if I felt this way and voted in support of spurs I would be
a co-conspirator. My friends and neighbors all think its politics. Bend
over backwards and kiss your ass good-bye!

I am just a helpless democrat in a red state (living off SS which I paid
into for over forty-years).

[certainot]

54. coastal city folks seem unaware the red states are basted in limbaugh led talk radio

it filters into all aspects of red state society, politics, analysis, media - limbaugh is a genius at making excuses for trump, saying his name 50 times an hour - it's all dems, liberal media's fault, protestors are paid and organized, etc

i wonder if red states/trump base will stay strong if they find out limbaugh/hannity's been getting russian money

[GoCubsGo]

3. It's pretty obvious now.

The only thing we don't really know is how many of them are compromised, and how much.

[onecaliberal]

4. They are also not allowing any money for states to harden elections

[dalton99a]

8. Very telling.

[kentuck]

38. So true.

[calimary]

28. And the reason for that one is simple.

They want that help again. Most, if not all, of them know they won in 2016 because they had lots of help from the Russians. And they want that help again.

That’s why it’s URGENT, VITAL, and ESSENTIAL that we do everything short of hiring people-movers to get our voters to the polls. MOST crucial at the state level because that’s where Democratic majorities and governors can undo the District gerrymandering that the CONS have raised to a high art, to rig the game for themselves.

The ONLY way they win is if they CHEAT. We’ve known that since the start of the new century. And the one weapon we still have in our arsenal is our majority numbers. If we get OUR people out, en masse, to vote, no amount of cheating can short-sheet that.

We HAVE TO win. This time in particular. We HAVE TO win. And no purity tests, either. No wiggle room. If the candidate has a “D” after his/her name, THAT’S who you vote for. “D” means you drive FORWARD. “R” means you go BACKWARD. Regardless. It’s just that simple. Period. Full stop.

[scarytomcat]

30. that is right Mary

but I think the rethugs have been cheating since before 2000. 2000 is when we found out punch card machines could be rigged then the dems let the the rethugs give us these machines that are even easier to cheat on. They can not win unless they throw people off the rolls, gerrymander and rig the machines. We need to get out the vote.

[Ligyron]

34. Absolutely!

Your best post yet Calimary.

[bdamomma]

44. we need many whistle blowers

to reveal the massive cover up. We are connecting the dots, at a quick pace.

[beachbum bob]

5. conspiracy for sure but sooner or later it caves in. Why GOP is now being hammered as

"UNTRUSTWORTHY"

[malaise]

6. They told us so

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?noredirect=on&utm_term=.88ca2b276200
<snip>

KIEV, Ukraine — 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.

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

7. Not only the translator But also Butina.

Gods knows who else. We will get through this. History will not be kind.

[onlyadream]

9. Just like the evangelicals

They're all willing to look the other way to get their agenda done. Even if it's traitorous or criminal. They'll justify it no matter what.

[Va Lefty]

10. The cover up caucus

[world wide wally]

11. NO scruples whatsoever.... NONE

Zero
Nada
Zilch
NONE

[Efilroft Sul]

29. No scruples, but plenty of rubles.

[NRaleighLiberal]

12. they can only win if they cheat and lie. They only serve themselves.

[bdamomma]

46. but why are

they hellbent to destroy our environment, our animals and deny climate change??? WTF

[airplaneman]

60. I have put a lot of thought into this.

I think they really are a cult or some kind of exclusive club. All you have to know is they are a Republican or Libertarian and its automatic they deny climate change and science in general and they hate liberals. Like a cult I don't think they could face their friends if they changed their mind on the required paradigms.
-Airplane

[northoftheborder]

13. This combination of.....

....love for Russia and love for religion....is making me sick.....could lead to who knows what. Is the US creeping toward alliance with Russia rather than Western Europe??????

[colorado_ufo]

23. Yes.

[Ligyron]

39. Maybe the US RW, largely GOP billionaire cabal is in league w the Russian Oligarchs.

Early, growing stages of a White Supremacy, feudal type societal alliance of the 1%?

I know it smacks of CT a bit, but...

If we don't win this upcoming election fair and square as motivated as we are, we'll know what's going on but I don't know what to do then.

[blue-wave]

14. Well, they have been trying

to cover-up their alliance with pooty poot. But it's all being exposed at this moment in time, isn't it? While attempting to destroy our country, they are destroying themselves and their own political party.

[OliverQ]

15. The question is can we stop them even though they

have Russia, gerrymandering, voter suppression, etc. all helping them.

[bdamomma]

47. we need massive

amounts of people to get out and vote, and think what they are doing to us and our country, kidnapping children, no healthcare, EPA is killing us, KKK sympathizers, white nationalists, not giving Puerto Rico any help.

They are filled with hate, division, power and greed.

[BlueJac]

16. k&R

[Pobeka]

17. I hope Ryan has secretly flipped.

It is my unsupported by evidence hope, only speculation. Why does Paul Ryan exit political office *now* ? He is only 2 steps from the oval office, his dream come true? -- I have for years thought both Ryan and McConnell are up to their necks in laundered Russian money. If Mueller's team has solid evidence of that funding, then perhaps Ryan's best option was to flip, and make a quiet deal, rather than face humiliation and certain jail time.

[peggysue2]

18. Of course, they are.

The narrative is that they consider bucking the Trumpster as political suicide--the base, the base. The truth is they don't want the details to emerge because many of their members are complicit. They know it and soon the American public will know it. The Mueller team has taken their names and those of their incessant cheerleaders.

We're approaching the moment when the curtain gets thrown wide open.

[The Liberal Lion]

19. It's not a cover-up it's a war

and it's high time that liberals, progressives, moderate dems and republicans of conscience start accepting it as such.

[FakeNoose]

26. Dear Republicans,

At least a few of you still love your country.

[scarytomcat]

31. welcome... that is right they are ready to start killing liberals

I mean a shooting situation

[SleeplessinSoCal]

20. Let there be leaks!

Lots of them.

[ewagner]

21. We are beyond tin-foil hat time...

this is our worst nightmare!

[BadgerMom]

22. Gross analogy here.

I reminds me of a boil rising to the surface of the skin. Back when Hillary identified “a vast right wing conspiracy” the infection had begun. It’s presenting itself in all its poisonous pain now.

[bucolic_frolic]

24. It will be a culture of fear and discipline

where silence is easier than free speech

[polmaven]

25. As usual!

I can't recall a time when they haven't been covering up on some issue.

[SHRED]

32. I'm confident Mueller has NRA donation details

[onetexan]

50. yup, & all the names of Repugs she slept with

for info/intel. The unraveling of how deep this infiltration is rooted and touched has begun.

[AllaN01Bear]

33. i for one would like to see the rEPUBliCON party disolved

[Tatiana]

35. The GOP is engaged in a CONSPIRACY. They are committing a crime.

They are working with a foreign power. They want to shut down the Mueller investigation because they clearly know he (and Rosenstein) are on to them.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

37. "For example, yesterday out of blue, they passed legislation to prevent...."

There was no legislation. See:

IRS reduces donor reporting rules for some tax-exempt groups

Source: The Hill

BY NAOMI JAGODA - 07/16/18 10:14 PM EDT

Certain tax-exempt groups will no longer be required to provide the names and addresses of donors to the IRS on annual forms under guidance that the Treasury Department and IRS released Monday evening.

The guidance reflects a priority of conservatives, who have been pushing for the IRS to bar collection of the donor information as part of their efforts to prevent the agency from targeting groups for their political beliefs.

Under federal law, charitable organizations that are tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) have to provide to the IRS information about the names and addresses of substantial donors. The IRS has required other types of tax-exempt organizations — including 501(c)(4) social-welfare organizations that advocate for specific policies — to also provide the agency with that information.

The names and addresses of donors is generally supposed to be kept private, but this information has improperly been made public in the past, notably in the case of the socially conservative National Organization for Marriage in 2012.

Read more: http://thehill.com/policy/finance/397347-treasury-and-irs-reduce-donor-reporting-requirements-for-some-tax-exempt

[RocRizzo55]

40. The entire GOP

is dirty.

[jodymarie aimee]

41. best OP and comments ever

thanks so much....

[Linda Ed]

42. The worst thing for democracy

The worst thing for democracy is a boatload of dark money backing candidates and issues when the ELECTORATE has no idea who is fronting the money or what their MOTIVES are. This needs to be revisited by the Supreme Court...unlimited Money as speech, especially untraceable Money, is the mother of all evil in politics and it will kill our democracy.

Think about governance unimpeded by special interest dark money buying and influencing decision making. The Supreme Court has opened a Pandora's Box with the whole money is speech thing while ignoring money can be bribery thing.

[dchill]

43. Legislation to prevent the IRS...

from making public where "dark money" came from... Gotta be a law against any such law.

[lordsummerisle]

45. My vote for most depressing thread on DU at the moment n/t

[Ferrets are Cool]

48. Does anyone still believe America is a democracy??

It is run by corporations and wanna-be dictators.

[The Liberal Lion]

57. Nope

We have, as a nation, succumbed to the effects of a coup. All the elements of our republic that supported our representative democracy are now tainted and in the process of being destroyed, if they haven't already been destroyed. Yet we, libs, progs, and republicans of conscience, keep hoping that those tainted and/or destroyed systems will relive us of this nightmare. IMHO, this is fool hardy. What difference will Mueller's actions make if those GOP'ers who have betrayed America (the list is long) remain in power and are able to block justice? What good does a blue wave do if our elections and voting systems are in the hands and at the mercy of a foreign power intent on destruction of our society? I know many of us on the left, middle, and some on the right continue to have faith in the foundations of what was once a decently functioning republic. I think, given the over abundance of evidence, that that hope is misplaced. I hope that I am wrong, but I think the full measure of what the majority of Americans are up against, that is the part of America totally against what some still refer to as the government, will come in full light. The realization is terrible, but it's one that has to be accepted if in fact anything is to be done about it.

[Ferrets are Cool]

59. Welcome to DU

[The Liberal Lion]

61. Thanks

[BadGimp]

49. #PutinsWinsAgain and the GOP is now #ThePartyOfPutin

[Timmygoat]

52. it can only be one thing

Why are these meetings so secretive, why are they just Trump & Putin?
I am convinced that there can only be one reason - Putin has a large cache of material with which he can blackmail Trump, it is the russian way, collect dirt, the get the person you have dirt on into an elected position and you can own them, they will keep defending Trump until he is of no use to them.
Anyone else notice the smirk on Putin's face at the press conference after Trump meeting.
It is like he is saying he is in control.
The very thought is terrifying.

[duforsure]

53. Its very obvious now

trump and the republicans are puppets of putin , and at every step undermining this country and our Democracy now.

[sellitman]

55. How many of the Congress & Senate are Deep Cover agents?

That's what I'm wondering.

[kentuck]

56. Many...

...probably the majority?

[sellitman]

58. It would almost have to be.

Quick somebody write a book.

On second though.