Editor's note: Ruth May wrote this column in August 2017. Click here for an extensive update.
Party loyalty is often cited as the reason that GOP leaders have not been more outspoken in their criticism of President Donald Trump and his refusal to condemn Russia's interference in the 2016 presidential election. Yet there may be another reason that top Republicans have not been more vocal in their condemnation. Perhaps it's because they have their own links to the Russian oligarchy that they would prefer go unnoticed.
Donald Trump and the political action committees for Mitch McConnell, Marco Rubio, Scott Walker, Lindsey Graham, John Kasich and John McCain accepted $7.35 million in contributions from a Ukrainian-born oligarch who is the business partner of two of Russian president Vladimir Putin's favorite oligarchs and a Russian government bank.
During the 2015-2016 election season, Ukrainian-born billionaire Leonard "Len" Blavatnik contributed $6.35 million to leading Republican candidates and incumbent senators. Mitch McConnell was the top recipient of Blavatnik's donations, collecting $2.5 million for his GOP Senate Leadership Fund under the names of two of Blavatnik's holding companies, Access Industries and AI Altep Holdings, according to Federal Election Commission documents and OpenSecrets.org.
czarnick123 on September 12nd, 2018 at 15:09 UTC »
Devin Nunes was outspoken against Russia and said Obama wasnt doing enough to help Ukraine. He wrote multiple opinion pieces for major news outlets saying so. Then he had a cocaine fuelled party on a yacht with Russian underage hookers. Now all of a sudden he is very against the Mueller investigation.
The Russians hacked the DNC and GOP servers in the run up to the election. They released dirt on the DNC but have held the GOP dirt back as kompromat. .
The entire GOP is complicit in the Russian takeover of our country. The Russians control the president and the GOP in congress. Now, through Justice Kennedys son in Deutsche bank, they asked Justice Kennedy to step down so they will have a player on the Supreme Court.
Phyre36 on September 12nd, 2018 at 13:58 UTC »
So do we enforce campaign finance laws anymore? Or are they only enforced on democrats?
RogalDorn71 on September 12nd, 2018 at 13:52 UTC »
Traitors.