If there's no there there - Why did Lyin'Ryan make party members swear to secrecy

[malaise]

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/gop-majority-leader-last-year-trump-putins-payroll

House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) isn’t known as an accomplished legislator, but once in a while, he makes headlines for accidentally blurting out the truth. In 2015, for example, the GOP leader admitted on national television that his party’s committee to investigate Benghazi conspiracy theories was created to undermine Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.

A month before Donald Trump clinched the Republican nomination, one of his closest allies in Congress – House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy – made a politically explosive assertion in a private conversation on Capitol Hill with his fellow GOP leaders: that Trump could be the beneficiary of payments from Russian President Vladimir Putin.

“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.

When the Post reached out to the House Speaker’s office, Ryan’s spokesperson, Brendan Buck, initially said of the McCarthy story, “That never happened…. The idea that McCarthy would assert this is absurd and false.”

Told that the newspaper had a recording of McCarthy’s comments, Ryan’s spokesperson switched gears, saying the House Majority Leader’s comment may have happened, but he was kidding.

What’s more, after McCarthy made the comment about Trump being on Putin’s payroll, and some in the room laughed, the House Majority Leader added, “Swear to God.”

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They're all involved in the cover-up

[liberal N proud]

1. Our country is in the midst of a monumental constitutional crisis

One party is in collusion with a foreign adversary!

[malaise]

3. Yes indeed

but the treasonous will learn

[furtheradu]

2. Thanks for this!

The criminality is wide & DEEEEP.

[malaise]

4. I added the link

More there

[gademocrat7]

5. Party above country.

Disgusting.

[windje]

6. which is why they won't impeach Trump - they own him same as Putin and he will do their bidding n/t

[CrispyQ]

7. In my dreams, Jared rats out the Con & then the Con rats out the GOP to save his own skin.

Pence, McConnell, Ryan, the Cabinet, & let's get some state govs, too, like Walker.

[malaise]

8. Nice dream

[leftstreet]

9. That's probably the only way the Trumps can save their brand

If they're thinking about their future earning potential with all things 'Trump,' they'd better think about ratting everyone out and trying to spin themselves as patriotic heroes or something

[CrispyQ]

10. If it took down the upper echelon of the GOP, I'd be fine with that outcome.

I want to see McConnell go down so bad.

[spanone]

11. once you start the lie, where do you start? lying liars