A former CIA officer explains how a vast, pro-Putin corruption network uncovered in Europe is a warning sign for the U.S.
Democrats for years have warned about Russian influence in the Republican Party under Donald Trump. But now even some prominent GOP members of Congress are sounding the alarm.
“I think Russian propaganda has made its way into the United States, unfortunately, and it’s infected a good chunk of my party’s base,” Representative Michael McCaul, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, told Puck’s Julia Ioffe last week. Representative Mike Turner, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, went further, telling CNN’s Jake Tapper a few days later, “We see directly coming from Russia attempts to mask communications that are anti-Ukraine and pro-Russia messages, some of which we even hear being uttered on the House floor.”
Which Republicans might they be referring to? Representative Ken Buck didn’t hesitate to point a finger at Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, saying on Monday, “Moscow Marjorie is focused now on this Ukraine issue and getting her talking points from the Kremlin and making sure that she is popular and she is getting a lot of coverage.”
It IS HAPPENING! Been obvious to anyone who pays the slightest attention. Ever since that orange shit stain announced he was running a decade ago, it has been PAINFULLY obvious.
Unfortunately, there are people who pay excessive and exclusive attention to right-wing media, and repeat the Hitler call of “fake news” (Lügenpresse) at all remaining media.
McCarthy: There are two people I think Putin pays: Rorabacher and Trump!
Ryan: Shhhhh! We’re all family here, right guys? Ha ha. ha ha ha. Ha.
-TWENTY FUCKING SIXTEEN
Yeah “is it happening here” WTF
Anyone remember this from almost a decade ago?:
"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.
This is not at all a new thing.
And that was before others did random trips to Russia
On the 4th of July, no less. If it was a book people would hammer that shit for being too unbelievable.
Trite as fuck but depressingly real.
Specifically: From an article on July 5, 2018, “On Tuesday afternoon, the bipartisan leadership of the Senate Intelligence Committee issued some important findings, concluding that the U.S. intelligence community was correct in its assessment: Russia attacked the U.S. elections in 2016 and did so in the hopes of putting Donald Trump in the White House.” And, “In addition to Shelby, who chairs the Senate Appropriations Committee and has limited foreign policy responsibilities, the official congressional delegation featured Sen. Steve Daines (R-Mont.), Sen. John Hoeven (R-N.D.), Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.), Sen. Jerry Moran (R-Kan.), Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.), and Rep. Kay Granger (R-Texas).”
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/seven-gop-lawmakers-make-misguided-trip-russia-msna1119676
You know who hasn’t been sounding the alarm?
That’s right, media. You.
I don’t know if that is the case
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/29/trump-russia-asset-claims-former-kgb-spy-new-book
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/25/us/politics/russia-intelligence-propaganda.html
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/09/zelenskyy-invites-trump-ukraine-russia-00151310
https://www.utsa.edu/today/2021/08/story/russian-influence-american-media.html
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/russias-prigozhin-admits-interfering-us-elections-2022-11-07/
https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/25/politics/us-intel-russia-propaganda/index.html
Huh, no Fox, Newsmax, OAN or PostMedia on that list.
I wonder why?
I can answer one of those.
You missed a pretty important one.
https://www.newsweek.com/who-konstantin-nikolaev-money-mike-johnson-1870600
I did, thank you for the link
It would be weird if Republicans did the shit they did and WEREN’T being paid by Russia…
Remember Devin Nunes?
Oh, the douchebag traitor who got fake dirt on Biden from a russian agent, and now the CEO of the trump media and technology group? Yeah, I remember that filthy traitor.
Its agonizing how obvious it is and we just have to sit here like they’re honest Americans. Sick of this backwards ass world.
Never heard abut this. Very interesting.
Is it happening here too?
Really? Did they ask this question with a straight face?
It’s actually really shocking for me as a non-American who grew up during the cold war and remembers the shadow of nuclear annihilation hanging over my head, then watching the fall of the Berlin wall then the comparative peace of the latter part of the 90’s where the future looked so bright that there is a real chance of senior American politicians being under the thumb of Russia.
It still kinda blows my mind that it might be true.
Might want to remove that, might be true. It is happening and has been happening. The entire GOP is a Russian asset.
Yeah but do you remember all those russia loving communities during the cold war? In sweden I bet the green party was paid off (to stop nUcLeAr eNeRgY => dependence on russian gas & oil), now it’s the racist party ofc.
We should really beef up monitoring how this “lobbying” is happening and crack down on it like a ton of bricks.
Gee, that’s a tough one.
Very nearly the entire republican party consists of worthless traitor filth who are wholly owned by one of our two greatest geopolitical adversaries, hell-bent on reversing the outcome of the Cold War. The fuck do you think?
Money is speech now, why shouldn’t we be surprised when politicians listen to the
highest bidderloudest voices?Sup regulatory capture and monopolies leading to preventable crises
It’s been open and blatantly happening for decades. They used to hand out fucking envelopes of cash from the Russian controlled NRA on the fucking floor.
Obviously. And, since the FBI and CIA don’t seem to care, I assume they are bought too.
It’s a little late for this realization. They already own most of the Republican Party and the rest is owned by the oligarchs.
It has been happening here since 2012. 2016 election was the result of that program and not the beginning.
Isn’t it ok for there to be foreign influence in Congress? I mean, no one seems to bat an eye that Israel openly supports so many politicians, why should it be bad for Russia to support politicians as well? /s
Generally it is bad if it is an adversary. However modern Russia is unfortunately a matched pair for the Republican party, christian ethno-nationalists with dictator leadership.
Like the Speaker of the House?
Why wouldn’t they, we’re for sale
Can’t buy what you have already bought
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