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riversedge

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Sat May 20, 2017, 06:28 PM May 2017

House Republicans Are Terrified Of What The Next Leaks Will Expose

I hope they are sweating!








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 Trump’s lead by focusing on the leakers damaging their reputations instead of the attack on the country the leakers are trying to stop. The leakers wouldn’t be le
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House Republicans Are Terrified Of What The Next Leaks Will Expose (Original Post) riversedge May 2017 OP
Hope they all shit their pants liberal N proud May 2017 #1
Good. I hope they worry themselves sick NastyRiffraff May 2017 #2
Expect that worry to intensify, too, as we near the 2018 election! manicraven May 2017 #3
I think a slow painful leak would make me happy. te he riversedge May 2017 #4
Ha Ha! MineralMan May 2017 #5

manicraven

(901 posts)
3. Expect that worry to intensify, too, as we near the 2018 election!
Sat May 20, 2017, 06:45 PM
May 2017

They won't just have leaks to worry about...

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