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JAD

(187 posts)
Fri Nov 22, 2019, 08:20 AM Nov 2019

Please enter into the Congressional Record the transcript of...

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.. June 15 , 2016 Kevin McCarthy, Paul Ryan and the rest of the Republican House members discussing the fact Putin pays Trump. The Washington Post not only has the transcript, they were given the actual recording.

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Duppers

(28,117 posts)
3. "There's 2 people I think Putin pays: Rohrabacher & Trump."
Fri Nov 22, 2019, 09:34 AM
Nov 2019

Found link...


A month before Donald Trump clinched the Republican nomination, one of his closest allies in Congress — House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy — made a politically explosive assertion in a private conversation on Capitol Hill with his fellow GOP leaders: that Trump could be the beneficiary of payments from Russian President Vladimir Putin.

“There’s two people I think Putin pays: Rohrabacher and Trump,” McCarthy (R-Calif.) said, according to a recording of the June 15, 2016, exchange, which was listened to and verified by lThe Washington Post. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher is a Californian Republican known in Congress as a fervent defender of Putin and Russia.

House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) immediately interjected, stopping the conversation from further exploring McCarthy’s assertion, and swore the Republicans present to secrecy.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/house-majority-leader-to-colleagues-in-2016-i-think-putin-pays-trump/2017/05/17/515f6f8a-3aff-11e7-8854-21f359183e8c_story.html?utm_term=.6e02e25e077d

Where was Mueller on this?

Yes, definitely get this into the Congressional Records.


Fritz Walter

(4,291 posts)
4. We were warned. Decades ago
Fri Nov 22, 2019, 09:53 AM
Nov 2019
"We do not have to invade the United States, we will destroy you from within."

Nikita Khrushchev
Premier of the Soviet Union, 1958-1964

MartyTheGreek

(565 posts)
8. To the Record: RNC 2016 Party Platform on Ukraine for Arms was weakened...
Fri Nov 22, 2019, 10:41 AM
Nov 2019

So the manipulation of our ally against russia was probably the For Sale sign for the rusky oligarchs to pour money into NRA (and where are those records?).

Who exactly paid Trump to do that?

NPR ref:

"Diana Denman, a Republican delegate who supported arming U.S. allies in Ukraine, has told people that Trump aide J.D. Gordon said at the Republican Convention in 2016 that Trump directed him to support weakening that position in the official platform."

https://www.npr.org/2017/12/04/568310790/2016-rnc-delegate-trump-directed-change-to-party-platform-on-ukraine-support

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/mueller-asked-trump-2016-rnc-platform-change-ukraine/story?id=59476035

JAD

(187 posts)
10. Yes that should be added to the Congressional Record too!
Fri Nov 22, 2019, 11:02 AM
Nov 2019

Almost all the Republicans have tied themselves to the trump anchor and the Democratic House should keep throwing those Republicans anchors instead of life preservers.

MartyTheGreek

(565 posts)
11. forgot to add Manafort was in-charge of the Trump campaign at that point...
Fri Nov 22, 2019, 11:49 AM
Nov 2019

and that's where the black ledger with Manafort's name popped up being paid or owed by a russian oligarch. Trump wanted to shift the blame saying Manafort was framed, Putin could say see I told ya, now lift the sanctions and Putin and Trump can happily retire to TT Moscow.

My theory, I'm sticking with it. One last point, there has to be a draft fake Son of Biden doc out there!

ScratchCat

(1,980 posts)
12. If the media has an actual recording of this
Fri Nov 22, 2019, 12:00 PM
Nov 2019

Then why don't we hear it everyday until these folks are run out of government?

keithbvadu2

(36,747 posts)
14. Russia is our friend... new meme of the Trump administration
Sat Feb 18, 2023, 10:56 PM
Feb 2023

Please enter into the Congressional Record the transcript of... June 15 , 2016 Kevin McCarthy, Paul Ryan and the rest of the Republican House members discussing the fact Putin pays Trump. The Washington Post not only has the transcript, they were given the actual recording.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212718193

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