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Wounded Bear
(58,440 posts)RockRaven
(14,783 posts)And I'm super cereal about that.
Kablooie
(18,571 posts)Trump accepting the money is unconstitutional but isn't the person paying him, a bribe, which is a crime too?
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)at a Trump property?
Are groups paying Congress members or Supreme Court justices large fees for short speeches committing bribery?
Hard to know for sure which is one good argument against all such payments.
uponit7771
(90,225 posts)PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)like Congress members or Supreme Court justices.
NCLefty
(3,678 posts)They don't even try to hide it. 32,000%... I'm not sure I've ever heard a percentage that high in my life. :p
vlyons
(10,252 posts)left me completely disgusted. I was left wondering if he actually believed his own bullshit about how it's all Dem's made-up charges, because we're pissed that Trump won the election of 2016, and we're trying to reverse the election.
I got this image in my mind of rats in a sewer feasting on disgusting waste going "hmmm yummy meal," because they don't know they are in a sewer. Is McCarthy really that darkly delusional? Does he know that he's feasting on filth?
onetexan
(12,994 posts)kimbutgar
(20,882 posts)All those brain damaged by the chemicals in the agricultural district who keep voting for him because they have been brainwashed into thinking the Democratic Party wants to take their water Bakersfield is also one of the most foul smelling places outside of the cattle farms on i5 in California. Between him and Nunes that part of California is hoodwinked by right wing radio, fox and Sinclair.
malaise
(267,813 posts)Never forget that it was Kevin who said that Putin pays the Con
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
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House majority leader to colleagues in 2016: I think Putin pays Trump
By Adam EntousMay 17, 2017
The 2016 conversation Paul Ryan wanted to keep private
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.
Theres 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 McCarthys assertion, and swore the Republicans present to secrecy.
Andy823
(11,495 posts)thanks to trumps buddy Putin.
malaise
(267,813 posts)although I think he has more goods on them than Putin - the family values posse think their sexual peccadilloes are hidden