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Cyrano

(15,046 posts)
Tue Mar 26, 2019, 01:55 PM Mar 2019

Mitch 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.

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Mitch McConnell blocking the report. What do they have on him? (Original Post) Cyrano Mar 2019 OP
Nothing. This is who he is (imo). n/t demmiblue Mar 2019 #1
I can't think of any reason why it WOULDN'T be Sheep (nt) mr_lebowski Mar 2019 #2
Mitch is blocking a resolution that Congress wants the report made public NewJeffCT Mar 2019 #3
I'm guessing something on irisblue Mar 2019 #4
also oldtime dfl_er Mar 2019 #7
...and Putin's $$$$$ via the NRA and RNC. BigmanPigman Mar 2019 #12
Wasn't Chao's company already implicated in cocaine smuggling? csziggy Mar 2019 #10
Republican already know what is in the report. Iliyah Mar 2019 #5
No, if there is blackmail material, I'm pretty sure it relates to money. alwaysinasnit Mar 2019 #6
Yes, there are sheep, but it's ok because they are pretty sheep. LuckyCharms Mar 2019 #8
He reminds me of 2naSalit Mar 2019 #9
we've had enough of stonewall mcconnell Rene Mar 2019 #11
McConnell is good at one thing customerserviceguy Mar 2019 #13
At least $3 million in Russian political donations, as I understand it. GoCubsGo Mar 2019 #14

NewJeffCT

(56,828 posts)
3. Mitch is blocking a resolution that Congress wants the report made public
Tue Mar 26, 2019, 01:58 PM
Mar 2019

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)
4. I'm guessing something on
Tue Mar 26, 2019, 01:59 PM
Mar 2019

Chao & her families shipping company. Lots of transport on the seas, most transports never get a visual inspection of cargo.

csziggy

(34,136 posts)
10. Wasn't Chao's company already implicated in cocaine smuggling?
Tue Mar 26, 2019, 02:07 PM
Mar 2019

Yep - years ago:

Mitch McConnell’s Freighted Ties to a Shadowy Shipping Company
After drugs were found aboard the Ping May, a vessel owned by his wife’s family’s 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 ship’s 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 McConnell’s in-laws, the Chao family.

Though Foremost has played a pivotal role in McConnell’s 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. That’s because, like many international shipping companies, Chao’s 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.

McConnell’s ties to the Chaos go back to the late 1980s, when James Chao began donating to the senator. In 1993, McConnell married James’s 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)
5. Republican already know what is in the report.
Tue Mar 26, 2019, 02:00 PM
Mar 2019

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.

2naSalit

(86,743 posts)
9. He reminds me of
Tue Mar 26, 2019, 02:06 PM
Mar 2019

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)
11. we've had enough of stonewall mcconnell
Tue Mar 26, 2019, 02:16 PM
Mar 2019

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)
13. McConnell is good at one thing
Tue Mar 26, 2019, 02:18 PM
Mar 2019

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)
14. At least $3 million in Russian political donations, as I understand it.
Tue Mar 26, 2019, 02:21 PM
Mar 2019

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.

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