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MADem

(135,425 posts)
1. The real substance was probably more like "We will pay you many rubles,
Thu Mar 2, 2017, 04:55 AM
Mar 2017

comrade, for your cooperation with the Russian state!"

sunonmars

(8,656 posts)
2. They must think we all floated up the river in a bubble.......Russians dont get out of bed unless
Thu Mar 2, 2017, 04:57 AM
Mar 2017

There is a payoff.......and WTF would a US senator being doing meeting with a Russian spy while working on a Presidential campaign.

meadowlander

(4,394 posts)
4. I'm interested in the white nationalist connection.
Thu Mar 2, 2017, 05:13 AM
Mar 2017

Remember David Duke saying that the three most key cabinet appointments from his perspective were Steve Bannon, Michael Flynn and Jeff Sessions? And two of those three have now been exposed for secret meetings with the Russian.

I wonder if Russia has been funding far right organisations and skinheads generally to disrupt elections. For example in Hungary, the white nationalist Jobbik party came out of nowhere in the past 10 years and holds 20% of the seats in parliament there now.

And there's been a huge surge of neo-nazi parties across Europe. I don't think it's a stretch to suspect it's not just the internet allowing isolated losers to find each other. Someone is funding them bigly.

uponit7771

(90,335 posts)
10. +1, I've said before this is like the civil war but this time the south got someone to help them...
Thu Mar 2, 2017, 08:29 AM
Mar 2017

... BEFORE firing a shot

Kablooie

(18,625 posts)
8. I predict he will be fine.
Thu Mar 2, 2017, 07:36 AM
Mar 2017

Republicans don't care about lying under oath or plotting with Russians to undermine our country as long as they can continue to gut our government.
The drowning of government is their ultimate goal anyway so all of this just helps them along.

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