Section: Daily Kos (USA)
A Montana GOP candidate made in Trump’s mold: rich, unaccountable, and above the law
You don’t have to know much about Montana’s GOP congressional candidate Greg Gianforte to realize he’s a direct political descendent of Donald Trump: an entitled millionaire who’s accountable to no one and considers himself above the law. Look no further than the altercation last night in which Gianforte wrapped his hands...
Paul Ryan tries to deflect on leak that implicates him in a Russia cover-up
Campaign Action Speaker Paul Ryan is trying out the Trump regime’s favorite defense against damning news—focus on the leaker rather than on the content. In this case, it’s the release of a transcript with a slip of the tongue from Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy about Donald Trump being on Vladimir Putin’s payroll, a...
Trump, calling Comey a ‘nut-job,’ tells Russians he fired him to relieve ‘great pressure’
Gotta hand it to the New York Times—this account of Donald Trump’s infamous meeting with the Russian foreign minister and ambassador in the Oval Office is just spellbinding. President Trump told Russian officials in the Oval Office this month that firing the F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, had relieved “great pressure” on him, according to...
Ryan and McCarthy want you to believe they were joking about Russia’s war on Western civilization
A bunch more bombshells hit Washington, D.C. late Wednesday, but one hits hard in the heart of the Republican establishment: The Washington Post’s scoop of a recording in which Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy “jokes” that Trump is on Putin’s payroll. When the Post approached Speaker Paul Ryan’s and McCarthy’s...
Ryan and McCarthy want you to believe they were joking about Russia’s war on Western civilization
A bunch more bombshells hit Washington, D.C. late Wednesday, but one hits hard in the heart of the Republican establishment: The Washington Post’s scoop of a recording in which Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy “jokes” that Trump is on Putin’s payroll. When the Post approached Speaker Paul Ryan’s and McCarthy’s...
Majority Leader to colleagues last June: ‘Putin is paying Trump.’ Paul Ryan: ‘Shut up! Shut up!’
The Washington Post has a new blockbuster that puts the whole of the House Republican leadership into complicity with popular vote loser Donald Trump and his Russia ties, but mostly Speaker Paul Ryan. The Post notes that when Ryan and McCarthy were asked for comment, their spokespeople denied it ever happened—“Brendan Buck, a spokesman for Ryan,...
Rob Quist’s millionaire Republican opponent has an ISIS problem
The Republican running for Montana’s lone congressional seat has—believe it or not—an ISIS problem, like so many millionaires must. How can they know where all their millions are going? In this case, to a company that has done business with the world’s uber-terror group. Greg Gianforte, the millionaire GOP contender for...
Paul Manafort got a $3.5 million tax-free payback-free ‘loan’ from unnamed sources
Donald Trump’s former campaign chief Paul Manafort has owned a nice apartment in Trump Tower since 2007—one that’s conveniently located near money laundering Russian mobsters and a real estate scheme run by Russian oligarchs. But in 2016, hours after officially leaving his spot at the top of Trump’s campaign, Manafort picked up...
Paul Manafort’s off-the-books funding appears to include $20 million from Trump associates
On August 19, just weeks after the Republican convention, Paul Manafort resigned as campaign chairman of Donald Trump’s campaign. Manafort left under pressure as stories of his corruption, secret funding by the Russians, and anti-NATO activities were growing almost daily. Fresh details of alleged secret payments allocated for Paul Manafort...
AP confirms Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort’s ‘shadow ledger’ of secret payments
Reports first emerged last summer that Paul Manafort was paid over $12 million dollars in under-the-table funds from pro-Russian forces in Ukraine. Funds may have still been flowing to Donald Trump’s campaign chairman even as he was working to put Trump in the White House. It is not clear that Mr. Manafort’s work in Ukraine ended with...
