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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMitch McConnell blocking the report. What do they have on him?
Are there embarrassing pictures? And if so, are there any sheep in them?
Then again, McConnell is such a major dick, he could be blocking it just to be a major dick.
The Republican Party has to go or we will never regain a sane America.
demmiblue
(36,875 posts)mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)However, I still think DoJ is required to give the report to Congress... it's just the question of making it available to the public.
irisblue
(33,018 posts)Chao & her families shipping company. Lots of transport on the seas, most transports never get a visual inspection of cargo.
oldtime dfl_er
(6,931 posts)Chao and her money.
BigmanPigman
(51,623 posts)csziggy
(34,136 posts)Yep - years ago:
After drugs were found aboard the Ping May, a vessel owned by his wifes familys company, Colombian authorities are investigating.
By Lee FangTwitter
October 30, 2014
Before the Ping May, a rusty cargo vessel, could disembark from the port of Santa Marta en route to the Netherlands in late August, Colombian inspectors boarded the boat and made a discovery. Hidden in the ships chain locker, amidst its load of coal bound for Europe, were approximately 40 kilograms, or about ninety pounds, of cocaine. A Colombian Coast Guard official told The Nation that there is an ongoing investigation.
Picture provided by the Colombian Navy after the cocaine seizure (image: armada.mil.co)
The seizure of the narcotics shipment in the Caribbean port occurred far away from Kentucky, the state in which Senator Mitch McConnell is now facing a career-defining election. But the Republican Senate minority leader has the closest of ties to the owner of the Ping May, the vessel containing the illicit materials: the Foremost Maritime Corporation, a firm founded and owned by McConnells in-laws, the Chao family.
Though Foremost has played a pivotal role in McConnells life, bestowing the senator with most of his personal wealth and generating thousands in donations to his campaign committees, the drug bust went unnoticed in Kentucky, where every bit of McConnell-related news has generated fodder for the campaign trail. Thats because, like many international shipping companies, Chaos firm is shrouded from public view, concealing its identity and limiting its legal liability through an array of tax shelters and foreign registrations. Registered through a limited liability company in the Marshall Islands, the Ping May flies the Liberian flag.
McConnells ties to the Chaos go back to the late 1980s, when James Chao began donating to the senator. In 1993, McConnell married Jamess daughter, Elaine Chao, a Republican activist and former Reagan administration official who would later serve as secretary of labor in the George W. Bush cabinet. James Chao emigrated to the United States from Taiwan, and founded the Foremost Maritime Corporation upon settling in New York. The company has grown significantly over the years, from acting as maritime agent during the Vietnam War to controlling a fleet of approximately sixteen dry-bulk cargo ships in operation today.
More: https://www.thenation.com/article/mitch-mcconnells-freighted-ties-shadowy-shipping-company/
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)Confirmed when Nunes said they needed to burn the Mueller's report because it's false right before Barr committed obstruction. House will get the report.
alwaysinasnit
(5,070 posts)LuckyCharms
(17,454 posts)2naSalit
(86,743 posts)Senator Wide-Stance of Idaho, only a millions times filthier.
I suspect he's in deep with some of his personal business which is only a counterpart to that of -45 and that their businesses are intertwined along with similar rulership objectives which can only come to complete fruition as long as they can control the power grab without an uprising. I think there will be an uprising and they won't be prepared for how we take power back. There have been a lot of federal judges "placed" while we have been focused elsewhere which will inhibit litigation and legitimate outcomes.
The only good thing that I can see coming out of all this is that We the People might possibly make important adjustments that take us in a positive direction and soon.
Rene
(1,183 posts)send him packing....soon. he's been a major thorn since blocking Obama's judicial pick. He's done nothing for America since.
customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)the game of "keepaway". He did it with Garland, and he's doing it now. My money's on the major dick theory.
GoCubsGo
(32,086 posts)But, it probably pales in comparison to what he's likely getting from the Communist Chinese. I think there's a good chance that whatever is in that report also opens up the whole can Chinese worms, of which he and his putrid wife are a part of. Probably Saudi and other money, as well. And not just him, but his whole ratfuck party.