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Holy shit. The GOP knew in the summer of 2016. This feels like an H-bomb sort of story, but then again, who the fuck cares if they get healthcare passed?

House majority leader to colleagues in 2016: ‘I think Putin pays’ Trump

“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 The 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.

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Some of the lawmakers laughed at McCarthy’s comment. Then McCarthy quickly added: “Swear to God.”

Ryan instructed his Republican lieutenants to keep the conversation private, saying: “No leaks...This is how we know we’re a real family here.”

 

Oh, and:

When initially asked to comment on the exchange, Brendan Buck, a spokesman for Ryan, said: “That never happened,” and Matt Sparks, a spokesman for McCarthy, said: “The idea that McCarthy would assert this is absurd and false.”

After being told that The Post would cite a recording of the exchange, Buck, speaking for the GOP House leadership, said: “This entire year-old exchange was clearly an attempt at humor. No one believed the majority leader was seriously asserting that Donald Trump or any of our members were being paid by the Russians. What’s more, the speaker and leadership team have repeatedly spoken out against Russia’s interference in our election, and the House continues to investigate that activity.”

 

Dateline on the story is Kiev. Dumb SOBs were taped by Ukrainian security service last year. Read the rest of the transcript. They knew Russia was interfering in elections where it could They knew, and shut up about it because Russia was helping their side. Traitors.

 

They were just trying to defeat the Communists.

 

I don't see how any of these guys come out of this clean. Every day, it's just more and more filth, and they haven't even started publicly turning on each other yet. That's still to come!

 

Deal. How much for the women?

 

When the Russians decide that the time is right to start releasing the stuff that they have on file, have tape of, or stole off the Republican servers at the same time they were working the Dem servers, all hell is going to break loose. No one will have any confidence left in our government post Trump.

 

They control every branch of government at basically every level. Maybe the big city mayors can move against them. Other than that, I got nothin'.

 

That toothpaste was mostly out of the tube well before the past election.