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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWho ever would have thought that after the SC put our government up for sale in Citizens United
that it would be bought by a hostile foreign government. Whoops!
Oh well, independent expenditures do not lead to, or create the appearance of, quid pro quo corruption., right Justice Kennedy?
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Who ever would have thought that after the SC put our government up for sale in Citizens United (Original Post)
ProfessorPlum
Jul 2018
OP
They should rename it Russian Citizens United aka the Russian Mob, which funds the traitor
dalton99a
Jul 2018
#1
The most generous interpretation is that they thought that good, American kleptocrats and oligarchs
ProfessorPlum
Jul 2018
#6
dalton99a
(81,485 posts)1. They should rename it Russian Citizens United aka the Russian Mob, which funds the traitor
Demonaut
(8,915 posts)2. South Carolina?
volstork
(5,400 posts)4. Supreme Court
N/t
Thrill
(19,178 posts)3. I think just a little investigation would find that the Russians
Have been the money behind orgs like the NRA for a very long time
OAITW r.2.0
(24,468 posts)5. Kennedy's son was Trump's banker at Deutsche Bank.
DB was a conduit for Russian mob money. It's a small world......
The GOP (an operating unit of Putin Worldwide Enterprises) is an organized crime party and they got friends in very high places (USSC).
ProfessorPlum
(11,257 posts)6. The most generous interpretation is that they thought that good, American kleptocrats and oligarchs
would be the ones buying our country.
Not corrupt foreign mafias. Oh well, unintended consequences, amiright?
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,972 posts)7. Obama warned about as much
At the SOTU address that followed the Citizens United decision.