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Mitch McConnell is a Russian asset (WP)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/mitch-mcconnell-is-a-russian-asset/2019/07/26/02cf3510-afbc-11e9-a0c9-6d2d7818f3da_story.htmlMitch McConnell is a Russian asset
By Dana Milbank
July 26 at 4:49 PM
Mitch McConnell is a Russian asset.
This doesn’t mean he’s a spy, but neither is it a flip accusation. Russia attacked our country in 2016. It is attacking us today. Its attacks will intensify in 2020. Yet each time we try to raise our defenses to repel the attack, McConnell, the Senate majority leader, blocks us from defending ourselves.
Let’s call this what it is: unpatriotic. The Kentucky Republican is, arguably more than any other American, doing Russian President Vladimir Putin’s bidding.
Robert Mueller sat before Congress this week warning that the Russia threat “deserves the attention of every American.” He said “the Russian government’s efforts to interfere in our election is among the most serious” challenges to American democracy he has ever seen. “They are doing it as we sit here, and they expect to do it during the next campaign,” he warned, adding that “much more needs to be done in order to protect against these intrusions, not just by the Russians but others as well.”
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RUSAL and its parent company, En+ Group, were both under federal sanctions until the Trump administration lifted those in January. Kentucky's senior senator Mitch McConnell spoke in support of lifting the sanctions.
RUSAL is partially owned by Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska, who has ties to convicted felon Paul Manafort. Manafort gained national attention as President Trump's former campaign manager.
Deripaska himself was sanctioned in April 2018 for attempting to meddle in the 2016 election.
Deripaska's business partner, Len Blavatnik, whose businesses donated $3.5 million McConnell's Super PAC, Senate Leadership Fund, from late 2015- March 2017.
All that has Congressman John Yarmuth with questions about the investment. The Democrat from Louisville remarked, "It's cause for further scrutiny. When you've got a guy who is complicit with Mr. Manafort, who is now a convicted felon, you've got some questionable dealings. I'd like to see- I don't know what Mitch McConnell's involvement is, but clearly with a $3.5 million donation to his political activities. There's just a lot of suspicious connections there and the last thing we want is investing public money, as we've done in Kentucky, and potential federal money, in a situation with some very questionable actors."
RUSAL is partially owned by Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska, who has ties to convicted felon Paul Manafort. Manafort gained national attention as President Trump's former campaign manager.
Deripaska himself was sanctioned in April 2018 for attempting to meddle in the 2016 election.
Deripaska's business partner, Len Blavatnik, whose businesses donated $3.5 million McConnell's Super PAC, Senate Leadership Fund, from late 2015- March 2017.
All that has Congressman John Yarmuth with questions about the investment. The Democrat from Louisville remarked, "It's cause for further scrutiny. When you've got a guy who is complicit with Mr. Manafort, who is now a convicted felon, you've got some questionable dealings. I'd like to see- I don't know what Mitch McConnell's involvement is, but clearly with a $3.5 million donation to his political activities. There's just a lot of suspicious connections there and the last thing we want is investing public money, as we've done in Kentucky, and potential federal money, in a situation with some very questionable actors."
https://spectrumnews1.com/ky/louisville/pure-politics/2019/04/16/reactions-differ-after-news-russian-oligarch-is-investing-in-braidy-industries
I don't know what does. He has betrayed our democracy and our country, both internally (by destroying the Senate and the legislative process) and externally (as cited above). (But it's plain sight, guys.
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He is the worst of the worst. 
(But, FYI, it's plain sight).
as of this morning.
You know what to do. 