Tangled web connects Russian oligarch money to GOP campaigns

[Eliot Rosewater]

Source: Dallas Morning News

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 Leonid "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.

Read more: https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2017/08/03/tangled-web-connects-russian-oligarch-money-gop-campaigns

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HUGE, so the entire party pretty much, the leaders anyway, guilty of treason.


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[marylandblue]

1. Seems like we need to ban Russians from entering the country

They are not sending us their best.

[LiberalArkie]

9. The contributions were probably corporate. So we need to ban corporate money from political

contributions.

[SergeStorms]

19. Citizens United........

NEEDS TO GO!

"Buy your very own patriotic Republican. They walk, they talk, they screw the poor. Complete with American Flag"!

Batteries, honesty, and integrity not included.

[trueblue2007]

24. Thank you GOP's in the Supreme Court. You've allowed EVIL to contribute to our elections.

[IthinkThereforeIAM]

34. I knew that was going to happen...

... with the Citizen's United ruling. Allowed a tangled web to become even more tangled.

[Akamai]

2. Thanks for posting this!

[jpak]

3. Fake News Kick!

[PSPS]

4. Foreign contributions like this are specifically prohibited by law, but IOKIYAR.

So we're practically a Russian satellite country now.

[Dustlawyer]

16. SCOTUS opened the door to this shit.

Alito can mutter "not true" all he wants but Obama was right, ir opens the door to foriegn interests and finished off Representative Democracy!

[Iliyah]

5. GOPers are not covering up for t-rump but for themselves . .

Awaiting for that big shoe drop especially verifying election rigging too.

[benld74]

6. Blavatnik-ized

[bucolic_frolic]

7. Nobody knew or asked where the $7.5 million came from

It was just lying in the street, like it fell off a Brinks truck

[tom_kelly]

30. A Brinksky truck, maybe?

[kwassa]

31. The money fell off a Brinksy truck ...

[Dopers_Greed]

8. Wow, I wonder if this is the direct Mueller's investigation is going

[furtheradu]

27. I'm sure Mueller is ALL over this!

& yet, I believe this is only ONE piece of the criminal treason puzzle involving
trump-rusky-republiker mob.
This mess is wide & DEEEEP, but so is Team Mueller's investigations & expertise!

[Doug the Dem]

10. Off to Greatest Threads!

[FakeNoose]

11. Happy Friday - the doo-doo hits the fan!

[C Moon]

12. McConnell must have been a very important piece to have in place.

There certainly were plans to take over the U.S.
GOP: you are a disgusting, selfish, vile group of people.

[renate]

15. and McConnell certainly seemed to know Hillary wouldn't be nominating anyone to the SC

Why would he have kept a moderate like Garland out if he hadn't known perfectly well that a Republican president would be able to nominate his pick in a year?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

22. Yup, McCONnell has to be deep in Russia collusion. . . . nt

[Volaris]

25. Yep McConnell was in on the fix.

[kedrys]

13. Plot twist!

[R B Garr]

14. What a nasty pit of crooks and traitors.

No wonder the likes of Starr and Gingrich are surfacing to twist the rule of law into protecting traitors.

[Mr. Ected]

17. Frankly, I'm shocked it took this long to uncover this news

That list of names (which is assuredly not exhaustive) is hardly surprising. The one that gets me is Kasich - who would've thunk it? Keep digging. Rand Paul belongs on this list. So does Rohrbacher and maybe even Grassley and King. The GOP is dirty and America needs to know the truth.

[L. Coyote]

18. Scott Dworkin has been all overthis for a long time now.

https://twitter.com/funder

Link to tweet

[Duppers]

20. Also posted here...

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029414242

[cstanleytech]

21. I suspected this for months and it explains why they have been

working to undermine the investigation.

[BadgerMom]

23. K and R

[Achilleaze]

26. Republican treasonweasels

Suck

[ghostsinthemachine]

28. K&R

Man oh man.

[apkhgp]

29. It never fails

When looking for something, you always find five things you were not looking for.

[stuffmatters]

32. Yep.Suspected all along. Ryan probably funded too. And this just the iceberg tip.

I also long suspected dark money, Russian contributions to the NRA, ALEC, Koch Bros crap tanks and 501 C4s, anti environment, anti choice & fundamentalist orgs,etc .... essentially any anti democracy,suppression campaigns are appealing to totalitarian agenda..

There was a Koch campaign ag 2 Propositions (pro tax, pro unions) in 2012 in Ca flooded with dark money. That sounded the alarm for me awhile ago.

[Justice]

33. This is why GOP wishes investigation would go away

[6000eliot]

35. Or they could put it into terms easier to understand and say

that the Republican Party has been laundering money for the Russian mob.

[kimbutgar]

36. We should ask each rethug how much will it take for them to represent the constituents instead off

Corporate interests.