Once-Pardoned GOP Operative Charged With Funneling Russian Cash Into Trump ’16 Campaign | Talking Points Memo

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Funny how we see the same names over and over, Moscow Mitch, the Bushes, Rand Paul etc.

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I’m not laughing

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Hmm. How is it one or both of the Bushes’ former operatives keep popping up?

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Nope. They win no matter what as far as they’re concerned. BLM embarrasses itself and gets caught pushing the race card where it doesn’t apply AND/OR Carmine’s and the vaccine mandates take some punishment and alienate would-be Dem voters in the black community. Meanwhile, none of it will change whether 3 black people get prosecuted for assault.

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This kind of story is why it is hard to credit the idea that we’ve heard the last about Trump’s corruption. Every time something like this becomes public it is like turning over a rock and seeing the bugs that are underneath. Even when Trump isn’t directly involved himself, there is something corrupt swirling around him, simply because he seems to attract those kinds of crooks and their schemes. He’s like a “strange attractor” for corruption.

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Fun zayn moyl, in Gots oyer!

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Uh huh. It wouldn’t have interested him anyway, as focused as he was on mastering the issues.

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I would occasionally see Doug Wead on the television during the W and Obama eras. He was your typical for the time Michael Gerson, David Brooks as the phrase was known compassionate conservative. They advocated for using more faith based institutions to tackle social problems. Gerson and Brooks became never Trumpers while Wead smoked some bad Trump stuff and got on his bandwagon.

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Nice. :joy: And besides, he would have wanted the whole $100K.

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I am not sad. The less money that makes into a campaign the better.

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When tRump finds out they took $75K and he only got $25K he’s gonna pull back that pardon.

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And a really bad egg.

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Then Trump would have pardoned him for both crimes.

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It’s not good to chisel the chiselers, they get very sharp with you.

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Well we all know a criming turtle…

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OT…but fun.

A Vax PSA…from Seth McFarlane fighting back against his parent network,

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But –

Prosecutors say in the indictment that Benton and Wead “concealed” the alleged scheme from Trump, which involved taking $100,000 from an unnamed Russian businessman in exchange for a photo op with Trump himself

Huh?

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They must not have got the America First memo.

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The whole Republican party has boiled down to con artists and rubes. Here is one test to determine if someone is a rube or a con artist.
Rubes refuse to take the vaccine. The con artists took it 5 minutes after it became available.

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Now I know why Trump didn’t even try to pardon them. They “concealed the alleged scheme from Trump”?

Pull the other one.

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