5 a.m. msnbc: McTurtle's turn in the barrell: wife's corruption story

[lindysalsagal]

Looks like the station chose to follow Rachel's lead and broadcast her conflicts of interest and his financial malfeasance.

My, oh my!!

[Pachamama]

1. Hopefully the media continues to report on this and Congress investigates n/t

[democratisphere]

2. Maybe corruption can turn out to be a beautiful thing.

[Hortensis]

3. Oh, so overdue and so needed! There are only a couple of biographies

of McConnell in spite of his enormous power and his effect on our nation. The Cynic: The Political Education of Mitch McConnell from 2014 is appalling but short. The other's from 2010 and almost fawning puffery.

[uponit7771]

4. K&R, bet a ton of that 'financial malfeasance' came from the Russians

[Achilleaze]

5. republican family values (and ethics) suck cesspool scum

grifters and liars

[Itchinjim]

6. And absolutely nothing will come of it because absolutely nothing matters anymore

[mucifer]

8. yup

[Cosmocat]

11. Yep

Rs have full on embraced trumpism - go balls deep in bold faced, outright corruption in mass volume, scream "FAKE NEWS and LIBERALS," play the victim, keep their brain dead "base" tweaked out and on a string and continue to batter the "middle" in their PTSD like "both sides of the same" zombie state.

We care, cause for whatever reason we aren't susceptible to the brain washing that effects right wingers and so called "independents" but, we are pushing mud cause we are outnumbers about 2 to 1 ... 1/3 of the country full on right wing tools, and 1/3 of the country thinking "they are both the same ..."

[DeminPennswoods]

16. McConnell's was corrupt long before Trump

was president.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

13. No. Wrong. Nothing more destructive than giving up. Self-defeatism hurts others too.

Nothing hands victory to fascist tRump and McCONnell faster than giving up like your post indicates.

Giving up is going against the Democratic Party, which has not and will not give up like you have. Are you on the wrong forum?

[Itchinjim]

18. Your condescending, patronizing comment aside,

I am grounded in the reality that is today's political climate. The GOP will do absolutely nothing about the flagrant law breaking and unethical behavior of their own. You know it, I know it, and everyone else on the forum ( of which I've been a member of since February, 2004, so I'm pretty sure I'm in the right place, thank very much) knows it too.
Jesus.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

19. No condescension from you :eyes: Only you know "nothing matters". You are advising us to give up.

"absolutely nothing matters"

Your words from on high to us and the Democratic Party.

You can go home and get drunk now. "Absolutely nothing matters".

[lpbk2713]

22. With regards to your hypothetical posed in #20.

Yes.

[duforsure]

7. Maybe there should be a special commission

Appointed on corruption , looking into to all Congressional members activities , especially those like Mitch McConnell and his wife's activities.

[Ilsa]

9. Joe Scarborough et al are discussing it.

McTurtle can't keep this a secret. And Trump doesn't care that his cabinet and advisors are gators in the swamp.

[watoos]

10. So what is being done about foreigners

spending millions of dollars at Trump properties to lobby him? Trump violates the emoluments clause of the Constitution every damn day and it has become normalized. Criminal behavior in the Trump administration has become normalized. Who is going to go after Mitch and his wife? Barr?

[DeminPennswoods]

17. Actually there's at least one Emoluments Clause lawsuit

working its way through the courts. Trump's atty have tried twice to have it dismissed with no luck.

[ehrnst]

21. Three lawsuits:

One by House Dems
One by the MD AG
One by the DC AG.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/legal-issues/trump-hotel-emoluments-case-is-at-federal-appeals-court-as-president-asks-for-it-to-be-thrown-out/2019/03/18/520c10bc-473e-11e9-90f0-0ccfeec87a61_story.html?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

12. The Steele dossier warned that corruption with countries other than Russia might be bigger. . . . nt

[watoos]

14. I doubt that many people are aware

how tight the Kushners are with Bibi. Bibi actually slept in Kushner's bedroom.

[3Hotdogs]

15. I hope the poor bastard didn't have The Princess on the other pillow.

[UTUSN]

24. K&R