Wyden Slams GOP Election Commissioners For Blocking NRA Foreign Donations Probe | Talking Points Memo

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Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) on Friday slammed Republicans on the Federal Election Commission for blocking an investigation into potential Russian political donations to the National Rifle Association in 2016.

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1243320
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Remember when the Repubs hated the Russians and shamed anyone who didn’t hate them as much as they did???

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Perhaps this is another investigation the AG of New York State can perform, given that the federal folks are so pusillanimous re the NRA.

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Well, because of the Republican appointees, the FEC is just feckless. We won’t get to the bottom of this until Putin’s poodle, Moscow Mitch, and Leningrad Lindsay are neutered. But this investigation will happen. It’s a matter of when.

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These “slammed” headlines are annoying. Nobody got slammed. They were verbally admonished. That said seems like some people have a lot to hide. Anyone know what if anything Maga Hari spilled?

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Email CommissionerHunter@fec.gov to share an opinion or ask for further clarification of her statement

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The problem is that these money streams are pretty substantial. When my friend was in Evenkiland in Northern Siberia, he asked the locals what this river was called. One guy responded, “That creek? It doesn’t have a name.” It was 50 meters wide. In the GOP case, it’s the same indifference over BFD money flows.

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“The FEC is forbidden from investigating groups purely based on rank speculation.”

Yes, (Benghazi) the Republicans’ (lock her up) have (Uranium One) their (lock her up) principles.

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“One of the Republican commissioners to vote against the probe, Caroline C. Hunter, called Weintraub’s statement “long on conjecture and short on the evidence and the law,” adding: “The FEC is forbidden from investigating groups purely based on rank speculation.””

Something’s rank in the 51st state of denial acquired from Denmark.

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Thanks for that!

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I don’t think Trump was the only campaigning Republican who got help from the NRA’s dirty Russian money.

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A headline the other day used “deets”, another one used “convos.” I asked myself “Esperanto?”

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“The vote on further investigation was 2-2, with the commission’s two Republicans opposed.”


Both Republican FEC members, shown here, voted to block the investigation.

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Corpulent. Complicit. Cuckoo.

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Korpulent, Komplicit, Kuckoo.

There. That’s a little better.

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When it all comes down we might find out The Republican Party is the the Party of Putin.
McConnell might be the the first Czar of America and Trump is the village idiot who will say what ever idiot’s off their meds say.

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“‘It’s inexcusable that Republican commissioners would block an investigation into whether Russian money was funneled through the National Rifle Association to help President Trump,’ Wyden told Newsweek”

Instead of targeting Trump specifically at this point in the run, it seems to me that targeting the influence foreign contributions, funneled though US entities, is having on the party that refuses to investigate any potential influence, would be more effective.

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convos I don’t mind… “conversations” is a long word to use in a headline, and “convos” is an acceptable neologism.

but deets for details is inexcusable. There difference in width of the words is that of an “s”

deets
details

so deets has got to go.

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If you thought the Russians had only compromised Trump, this story should give you pause. It seems the entire Republican party is in the tank for Putin.

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