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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHouse Republicans Are Terrified Of What The Next Leaks Will Expose
I hope they are sweating!
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House Republicans Are Terrified Of What The Next Leaks Will Expose
http://www.politicususa.com/2017/05/19/gop-house-leadership-worried-leaks.html
By Sarah Jones on Fri, May 19th, 2017 at 3:32 pm
Republican House leadership is worried now about what other leaks could come next. After the leak of a taped conversation with Kevin McCarthy telling Paul Ryan and others that he thought Putin was paying Trump and Republican lawmaker Dana Rohrabacher, House leadership is agitated."
This might feel a bit like schadenfreude for the Clinton campaign and DNC after being hacked throughout 2016.
Republican House leadership is worried now about what other leaks could come next.
After the Washington Post reported on a taped conversation with GOP Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy telling Speaker Ryan (R-WI) and others that he thought Russian President Putin was paying Trump and Republican lawmaker Dana Rohrabacher, House leadership is agitated Axios reports.
It came out on Friday that the FBI warned Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) years ago that Russian spies were trying to recruit him.
Referring to the possibility that other private conversations might have been recorded, one senior Republican aide said according to Jonathan Swan, The unknown is frustrating.
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Republicans are following President Trumps lead by focusing on the leakers damaging their reputations instead of the attack on the country the leakers are trying to stop. The leakers wouldnt be le
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House Republicans Are Terrified Of What The Next Leaks Will Expose (Original Post)
riversedge
May 2017
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liberal N proud
(60,334 posts)1. Hope they all shit their pants
NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)2. Good. I hope they worry themselves sick
Too sick to continue in politics.
manicraven
(901 posts)3. Expect that worry to intensify, too, as we near the 2018 election!
They won't just have leaks to worry about...
riversedge
(70,236 posts)4. I think a slow painful leak would make me happy. te he
MineralMan
(146,317 posts)5. Ha Ha!
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