Remember that Watergate began with a “third-rate burglary.”
Drip, drip, drip. Here we go.
Just the first crack, but soon:
Need
Russian
Assets
How much was it? A banker could be funneling millions of dollars for hundreds of contributors. And, how do Trump’s rabid, gun-fellating, white nationalist supporters feel about having the glorious NRA taking money from America’s sworn enemy?
How can this be a thing? The conclusion I draw here is the only solution to all this is:
- publiclly financed elections. Get the corruption out.
- overturn Citizen’s United or legislate to fix it
- severely punish money launderers and go after them agressively.
Any other ideas out there?
“This all comes off one report. We’ve been trying to be polite. How do you prove a negative?”
Um, which negative would you be talking about?
Considering you’re using veiled threats for violent action blasted across your sham cable channel, I’m not sure you know what “polite” means either.
Interesting coincidence that Torshin happens to be the only Russian who gave money to the NRA …
I think you meant overturn “Comrades United”, right?
Oligarchic money is like seeing one cockroach. Hundreds of others are hiding in secret places.
And they’ve all shit in your food.
Yup. Where there’s one there’s more.
I’ll bet the NRA’s books won’t stand up to detailed inspection. If Mueller’s made that connection, he’s gonna send in his financial fraud wizards, who’ll go through everything with a very fine-toothed comb.
Gotta confess, the only thing I would be as happy to see as the downfall of Crime Family Trump would be the castration of the NRA.
Such pathetic liars these right wingers are.
I remember during the campaign when Trump was literally sucking wind and had very little money being actually donated. Then as if by magic, it changed overnight. I can easily see a scenario where the NRA and other groups took Russian money and laundered it in the name of actual US citizens to the campaigns of Republicans including Trump.
If that is the case we need to seriously look at charging people in the NRA and RNC under the Espionage Act. I’ll let you Google the range of punishments for that crime…
Hart told ABC that the entire FBI probe is “imaginary” and that the NRA’s political arm never illegally accepted foreign contributions.
“This all comes off one report. We’ve been trying to be polite. How do you prove a negative?” Hart asked in the interview.
You shoot it?
" never illegally accepted money"…soon you will be seeing caveats, contingecies, clarifications…it never ends with these feckless whores.
“And when I say one, I mean there were several. But Sergei doesn’t count because he’s living in Cyprus. And Artyem is in the Seychelles. Then there’s Andrej, but he died in London recently. Odd that. Come to think about it, we have a lot of Russian money, but so what. It’s not illegal and none of it was used to elect Trump. And when I say none…”
Just like Facebook only accepted a few thousand rubles.
'Cuz you know that membership fees don’t add up to the kind of money the NRA has.
OK, you attorneys out there - is there any way that the NRA has conducted it’s business such that the RICO act or something as onerous would apply. Is there a way to shut it down, seize its assets and put Wayne LaPierre in a Dunk-the-Clown tank for about a month?
“We’re trying to be polite” is bordering on a threat isn’t it?