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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJohn Schindler's speculating on whether Russian-hacked RNC emails are being used to help Trump
This started with a tweet about Lindsey Graham's full 180:
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I have questions.
That was a comment on this Washington Examiner article:
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/lindsey-graham-we-need-new-special-counsel-just-for-trump-dossier/article/2644632
Schindler's tweet got this response from Kim Hopper:
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Schindler's response to her:
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IMO it's unlikely Putin would have handed all the hacked RNC emails over to Trump and his incompetent family and associates. More likely Putin is handing over select info, potential blackmail material, when it will help Trump. It would explain the groveling from the GOP that we've seen lately.
lark
(23,296 posts)McConnell and Grahams puzzling actions and about faces could both be potentially explained by this?
OregonBlue
(7,766 posts)180, as did Graham and several others. Either they are caught up in the money part and didn't realize they would be found out or they have something really juicy on both of them. They both despise Trump and now they can't kiss his butt fast enough. Many of the Russian spies and diplomats have said they have tape on "everyone" that could influence the US government.
Nunes winery was apparently financed by the Russians. Rohrabacher has been on the take with them for years. They must not have anything on Rubio because he is pushing for the hearings to go forward and he hates Trump.
thbobby
(1,474 posts)Does trump have blackmail worthy information from an RNC hack?
OR
Is the RNC complicit in receiving Russian help and fears trump will spill his guts when he is cornered?
CrispyQ
(36,697 posts)He may have some juicy stuff on a few, but mostly it's that GOP leadership has been in on it since they refused to have a hearing for Garland & the closer Mueller gets to Trump, the closer he gets to GOP leadership & key players, so they are covering each others' asses, trying to show a unified front. They backed this orange shitstain and hopefully they'll be wearing it soon.
The GOP is complicit in colluding with Russia and conspiring to hide it. This house of orange shit is burning to the ground.
BadgerMom
(2,781 posts)uponit7771
(90,403 posts)Baitball Blogger
(46,883 posts)Any Senator who can be blackmailed is symptomatic of the problem.
Maybe that's why Senators are falling like flies. Those who do not want to play the game, step down. Which leaves the ones who stick it out by bending to the blackmail...well, the longer they drag this out, the harder they will fall.
roamer65
(36,749 posts)Russian intel.
get the red out
(13,468 posts)These turn around from Trump hating Rs to Trump lovers is whiplash inducing.
moondust
(20,066 posts)Putin may have enough kompromat on both the White House AND the GOP Congress to effectively run both Russia AND the USA?
Oh my.
wishstar
(5,281 posts)News reports stated that Russians almost certainly hacked Repubs, not just DNC. He is such a BS con artist that it wouldn't surprise me if he made veiled threats in private to Repubs alluding to Russian hacking and potential release of compromising info if they oppose him too strongly and allow Mueller to go ahead unimpeded.
rainin
(3,013 posts)They hacked both sides. If R's weren't afraid of having their private emails released, then they surely got in line once they accepted foreign money. At any rate, they are compromised. Not a one of them is smart enough to avoid the trap of Russian intelligence.
BigmanPigman
(51,775 posts)Lock them all up for life and seize all of their assets permanently. This is too good for them for selling our country to the enemy...they should all hang. I would like to see the nooses used as a bunch of overly long red ties knotted together.
More_Cowbell
(2,193 posts)That's the kind of petty thing that Trump would insist on Graham lying about. It's a power play. You do that to someone you've got dirt on.