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Plansix
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Leporello
United States2845 Posts
What goes through the Republican mind when they read stories like these and see all these Russian oligarchs are funding their political industry, or see all the Russian social-media comments that look like they came from the mouth of a "good 'murican"? I don't know, because they seem to be incapable of even acknowledging their existence. However, the NRA reported spending a record $55 million on the 2016 elections, including $30 million to support Trump – triple what the group devoted to backing Republican Mitt Romney in the 2012 presidential race. Most of that was money was spent by an arm of the NRA that is not required to disclose its donors. Two people with close connections to the powerful gun lobby said its total election spending actually approached or exceeded $70 million. The reporting gap could be explained by the fact that independent groups are not required to reveal how much they spend on Internet ads or field operations, including get-out-the-vote efforts. Torshin, a leading figure in Putin’s party, has been implicated in money laundering by judicial authorities in Spain, as Bloomberg News first revealed in 2016. Spanish investigators alleged in an almost 500-page internal report that Torshin, who was then a senator, capitalized on his government role to assist mobsters laundering funds through Spanish properties and banks, Bloomberg reported A summary obtained by McClatchy of the still-secret report links Torshin to Russian money laundering and describes him as a godfather in a major Russian criminal organization called Taganskaya. Investigators for three congressional committees probing Russia’s 2016 operations also have shown interest in Torshin, a lifetime NRA member who has attended several of its annual conventions. At the group’s meeting in Kentucky in May 2016, Torshin spoke to Donald Trump Jr. during a gala event at the group’s national gathering in Kentucky in May 2016, when his father won an earlier-than-usual NRA presidential endorsement. An FBI spokesman declined to comment on the investigation. The company you keep. Hard to imagine why such a fine, moral, upstanding, 'Murican institution as the NRA would consort with international criminals. Maybe it's because they're just a bunch of fucking gun-dealers. | ||
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zlefin
United States7689 Posts
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{CC}StealthBlue
United States41117 Posts
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FueledUpAndReadyToGo
Netherlands30548 Posts
On January 18 2018 12:31 Gahlo wrote: What could possibly go wrong? What's the bullshit meter on The Intercept? I think I've seen stuff posted from it a few times here. The Intercept A personal secret police? Jee what a great idea, executed already by many wonderful figures in history | ||
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Ryzel
United States538 Posts
On January 18 2018 23:13 FueledUpAndReadyToGo wrote: A personal secret police? Jee what a great idea, executed already by many wonderful figures in history Jesus this is so many levels of fucked up. If this is true it really reinforces the premise that Trump wants to be to the United States what Putin is to Russia. | ||
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ragz_gt
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On January 18 2018 23:34 Ryzel wrote: Jesus this is so many levels of fucked up. If this is true it really reinforces the premise that Trump wants to be to the United States what Putin is to Russia. With all his faults Putin has never been accused of incompetent, so that's strike 1. | ||
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Plansix
United States60190 Posts
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Ryzel
United States538 Posts
On January 18 2018 23:45 Plansix wrote: I am pretty sure any attempt to do that would be followed up by unlimited lawsuits. The executive branch hiring an outside group to investigate federal employees for any reason isn’t allowed. IMO Trump has demonstrated he has no fear of the court system. His lawyers are the best at bogging it down, and the time it would take to force him to disband his outside group would be more than enough for them to "find" incriminating evidence against the Feds. Hell, I wouldn't be surprised if he then asks Russia for help to stop this "coup" that he discovers. | ||
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Acrofales
Spain18132 Posts
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TheLordofAwesome
Korea (South)2655 Posts
I don't understand what he is talking about. | ||
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Acrofales
Spain18132 Posts
On January 19 2018 00:00 TheLordofAwesome wrote: Serious question: Why does Trump keep talking about how the wall needs to be "see through?" https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/953948941674078208 I don't understand what he is talking about. A see-through wall. Either he wants to make it out of glass... or, more likely, hot air. | ||
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Doodsmack
United States7224 Posts
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Doodsmack
United States7224 Posts
On January 18 2018 23:59 Acrofales wrote: Why are we believing stuff posted on The Intercept and nowhere else? It's been reported elsewhere before today, but not with that level of detail I don't think. | ||
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Plansix
United States60190 Posts
On January 18 2018 23:59 Acrofales wrote: Why are we believing stuff posted on The Intercept and nowhere else? I’ve seen that story for almost a year now, in different versions and publications. It has to be the brain child of some White House staffer that just won’t die. | ||
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Artisreal
Germany9235 Posts
On January 19 2018 00:00 TheLordofAwesome wrote: Serious question: Why does Trump keep talking about how the wall needs to be "see through?" https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/953948941674078208 I don't understand what he is talking about. It's not gonna be a wall but rather a fence | ||
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LegalLord
United States13779 Posts
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KwarK
United States43278 Posts
Putin gets around his failings by rallying ignorant macho idiots around the idea of patriotism and unifying against the foreign enemy. That, and he murders his political opponents. | ||
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TheLordofAwesome
Korea (South)2655 Posts
This is not a joke. “As horrible as it sounds, when they throw the large sacks of drugs over, and if you have people on the other side of the wall, you don’t see them–they hit you on the head with 60 pounds of the stuff? It's over,” the President said aboard Air Force One yesterday, according to the official White House transcript. “As crazy as that sounds, you need transparency through that wall.” https://www.wired.com/story/trump-bags-of-heroin/ | ||
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Plansix
United States60190 Posts
On January 18 2018 23:59 Ryzel wrote: IMO Trump has demonstrated he has no fear of the court system. His lawyers are the best at bogging it down, and the time it would take to force him to disband his outside group would be more than enough for them to "find" incriminating evidence against the Feds. Hell, I wouldn't be surprised if he then asks Russia for help to stop this "coup" that he discovers. The courts don’t fear him either, tbh. But Black water fears the courts. | ||
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