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berni_mccoy

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Mon Mar 26, 2018, 08:30 AM Mar 2018

Can an Indicted Congressmen Vote? Mueller can (and should) go after the GOP first

Before taking out Drumpf:

http://time.com/5215147/mueller-witness-pushed-a-uae-agenda/

A top fundraiser for President Donald Trump received millions of dollars from a political adviser to the United Arab Emirates last April, just weeks before he began handing out a series of large political donations to U.S. lawmakers considering legislation targeting Qatar, the UAE’s chief rival in the Persian Gulf, an Associated Press investigation has found.

George Nader, an adviser to the UAE who is now a witness in the U.S. special counsel investigation into foreign meddling in American politics, wired $2.5 million to the Trump fundraiser, Elliott Broidy, through a company in Canada, according to two people who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter. They said Nader paid the money to Broidy to bankroll an effort to persuade the U.S. to take a hard line against Qatar, a long-time American ally but now a bitter adversary of the UAE.
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Can an Indicted Congressmen Vote? Mueller can (and should) go after the GOP first (Original Post) berni_mccoy Mar 2018 OP
being charged doesn't remove the ability to vote, ever beachbum bob Mar 2018 #1
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