My junk has Spidey Sense I’m gonna say 550 million … me sack is always right.
MAGA Mike be like …..View attachment 5370274
White House rejects Johnson's requests to meet with Biden: 'What is there to negotiate?'
President Biden has denied Mike Johnson's requests for a one-on-one meeting on Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan and border security, a source familiar told ABC News.abcnews.go.com
what are we starting a bankruptcy pool???
The nub of the argument is found toward the end of the article:View attachment 5370274
White House rejects Johnson's requests to meet with Biden: 'What is there to negotiate?'
President Biden has denied Mike Johnson's requests for a one-on-one meeting on Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan and border security, a source familiar told ABC News.
MAGA Johnson is side stepping........meanwhile:
www.newsweek.com
I think Russian money is mother's milk to them at the moment. To answer your question, just look at the state of finances in the GOP and what Johnson is doing to the Ukraine aid package. People simply aren't donating to the Republican Party any more. I also don't believe that Trump paid more than $50 million to lawyers through small donations to opaque PACs from individual donors. The whole thing reeks of Putin's and his oligarchy's dirty money.MAGA Johnson is side stepping........meanwhile:
Mike Johnson's campaign contributions from company tied to Russia
The Louisiana Republican's team previously said it returned all the money it received from a company predominantly owned by Russian nationals in 2018.
why does he have russian doners? interesting article........
is it me, or is the GOP just filled with Russian money?
www.kosu.org
fox59.com
You know,this peckerhead Speaker of ours actually has me feeling a little nostalgic for K. McCarthy,NEVER thought I'd actually say that, damn the benefit of hindsight,Johnson is really giving me the creeps.How many more new nightmarish rogues do the R's have on the bench,who the FK is this guy to be Speaker,he'll put his fist up your ass w/one hand while holding a bible in the other w/ a trademark aw shucks grin on his face.Cause
2018
Russiagate Is Far Wider Than Trump and His Inner Circle
It isn’t just the story of a few corrupt officials, or even a corrupt president. It’s the story of a corrupt Republican Party.
Russiagate Is Far Wider Than Trump and His Inner Circle
It isn’t just the story of a few corrupt officials, or even a corrupt president. It’s the story of a corrupt Republican Party.www.thenation.com
The point here isn’t necessarily that Rohrabacher, a Republican congressman from California, solicited illegally obtained documents from Russian officials. There are other plausible candidates who might have done that. The point is that Russiagate, which is widely understood to be a scandal surrounding Donald Trump’s close associates like Paul Manafort, may go wider and deeper, and could implicate at least one member of Congress.
Moreover, it seems that the Republican leadership was at the very least aware of this possibility, amused by it, and did nothing whatsoever to alert the public or any relevant authorities. They were happy to enjoy the benefits of Russian interference and said so openly among themselves.
Similarly, as the Post reported, when Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell was informed of Russian interference in September 2016 in a meeting with President Obama and other senior officials, he threatened to cast any public announcement of the threat as partisan politics. It’s not a stretch to say McConnell deliberately undermined national security for partisan advantage, a decision that has paid off with the signing of a massive tax cut for the wealthy and the looming establishment of a durable right-wing majority on the Supreme Court.
In other words, Russiagate isn’t just the narrow story of a few corrupt officials. It isn’t even the story of a corrupt president. It’s the story of a corrupt political party, the one currently holding all the levers of power in Washington. After Trump groveled before Putin in Helsinki, many Republicans in Washington proclaimed their solemn concern, just as they did when the president expressed his sympathy for the white supremacists in Charlottesville last year. But all of them are fully aware that they are abetting a criminal conspiracy, and probably more than one.
Cause
2023
GOP operative sentenced in scheme to funnel Russian money to Trump campaign
A Republican strategist was sentenced Friday to 18 months in prison for his role in helping funnel illegal foreign campaign contributions from a Russian national into former President Trump's 2016 campaign, per the Department of Justice.
Cause
2019
Trump’s businesses are full of dirty Russian money. The scandal is that it’s legal.
Shell companies put figures from Putin’s Mafia into Trump Tower. Should that be worrying?
Effect
The Republican Party has grown much more supportive of Russia in recent years
The Republican Party has grown much more supportive of Russia in recent years
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Anne Applebaum, staff writer for The Atlantic, about Russia's continued appeal to the American right.
KELLY: I want to begin by noting that this piece you wrote - it's coming up on five years old. It's from 2019. Have you, as a longtime Russia watcher, tracked any diminishment in the intervening years in American conservative admiration for Russia?
APPLEBAUM: No. On the contrary, I think the conservative party's romance with Russia has grown quite a bit deeper. This is now a party that is profoundly critical of the United States. It doesn't like the diverse society that we've become. It doesn't like immigration. It doesn't like the kind of national conversation we have. And ironically, like the left of a previous generation, they've imagined that a better, ideal version of our society exists in Russia - a kind of white, Christian nation, you know, unified beneath a single leader without all this messy, ugly democracy and all these different kinds of people. And that's, I think, one of the roots of their admiration.
Effect
Feb 15, 2024
Treasury promoting new rules to stop money laundering ahead of Europe meetings
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is stepping up efforts to stop dirty money from flowing through the U.S. financial system with a slew of new rules aimed at increasing corporate transpare…
Treasury promoting new rules to stop money laundering ahead of Europe meetings
To every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. Well, not exactly physics and not exactly equal and opposite, but,
The Biden administration is cracking down on Russian money laundering in the US. Also, witness the Article that Budman posted today about Johnson's funds tied to Russians. This came out after Johnson halted a bill that would have continued funding for Ukraine's war against Russian aggression that he is keeping from a vote for no good reason. Coincidence?
The GOP caucus keeps losing loyal Republicans who retire rather than face the onslaught of death threats and menacing that Trump's MAGA visit upon them when Trump calls them out for "disloyalty". Johnson can't back out now. His life depends on staying loyal.
damn, I thought he said cleaning bowels.
He keeps fucking with GOP leadership, they will fuck with him back. Most of the shit show in the house is due to him.
You know this never happened. No leader would call him sir.Wish I could say what I want on this but trying to stay on the legal side of things.
