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🏛️Mitch McConnell needs to be taken out of his position right now of being a roadblock to non-partisan negotiations to ending the government shutdown.
▶️One reason is in plain sight: he is a member of the Legislative branch; his wife is a member of the Executive branch.
▶️One reason is in plain sight: he is a member of the Legislative branch; his wife is a member of the Executive branch.
💥Trump (Executive branch) is causing the shutdown.
🧱Mitch McConnell (Legislative branch) is blocking the end of the shutdown.
🔥If we don't have 3 co-equal branches of government our country is seriously doomed.
⁉️How much longer can this continue?
🧱Mitch McConnell (Legislative branch) is blocking the end of the shutdown.
🔥If we don't have 3 co-equal branches of government our country is seriously doomed.
⁉️How much longer can this continue?
💥Of course, there are many allegations against McConnell. Joe Biden said a year ago that McConnell prevented the Obama Administration from
speaking out about Russian interference in the 2016 campaign by refusing to sign on to a bipartisan statement.
politico.com/story/2018/01/…
speaking out about Russian interference in the 2016 campaign by refusing to sign on to a bipartisan statement.
politico.com/story/2018/01/…
🇷🇺Then, there are the allegations that McConnell's PAC, the GOP Leadership Fund, along with Trump, accepted $7.35 million from Russian oligarch Leonard "Len" Blavatnik. McConnell's PAC was the top recipient at $2.5 million.
dallasnews.com/opinion/commen…
dallasnews.com/opinion/commen…
🔥McConnell has received $1,261,874 in career donations from the NRA [as of February 2018] which has been directly tied to Russia after the guilty plea of Maria Butina.
businessinsider.com/nra-political-…
businessinsider.com/nra-political-…
🔥🔥Maria Butina pleaded guilty in December 2018 to "conspiring to act as an unregistered agent of Russia, admitting that she worked for more than two years to forge relationships with conservative activists and leading Republicans in the United States."
washingtonpost.com/politics/russi…
washingtonpost.com/politics/russi…
@washingtonpost 👉
One of Butina’s main targets was the NRA — a group she identified in a 2015 memo as an organization that “had influence over” the Republican Party, according to court filings.
One of Butina’s main targets was the NRA — a group she identified in a 2015 memo as an organization that “had influence over” the Republican Party, according to court filings.
@washingtonpost 👉 (cont'd)
Her relationships with the group, she wrote, could be used as the groundwork for an unofficial channel of communication to the next presidential administration.
Her relationships with the group, she wrote, could be used as the groundwork for an unofficial channel of communication to the next presidential administration.
@washingtonpost 👉 (cont'd)
Later that year, she helped organize a delegation of top NRA leaders to visit Moscow, arranging for them to meet Russian government officials, and she attended the group’s annual conventions as an honored guest.
Later that year, she helped organize a delegation of top NRA leaders to visit Moscow, arranging for them to meet Russian government officials, and she attended the group’s annual conventions as an honored guest.
@washingtonpost 👉 (cont'd)
Butina and Alexander Torshin, a former Russian government official who helped direct her activities, then used their NRA connections to get access to GOP presidential candidates, according to court filings.
Butina and Alexander Torshin, a former Russian government official who helped direct her activities, then used their NRA connections to get access to GOP presidential candidates, according to court filings.
@washingtonpost 👉 (cont'd)
Butina’s case exposed how Russia saw the NRA as a key pathway to influencing American politics to the Kremlin’s benefit.
Butina’s case exposed how Russia saw the NRA as a key pathway to influencing American politics to the Kremlin’s benefit.
@washingtonpost 👉 (cont'd)
And it has intensified questions about what the gun rights group knew of the Russian effort to shape U.S. policy and whether it faces ongoing legal scrutiny.
And it has intensified questions about what the gun rights group knew of the Russian effort to shape U.S. policy and whether it faces ongoing legal scrutiny.
🦚🦚Then, there was his "proudest moment."
The moment McConnell couldn't be bothered to do his job: hold confirmation hearings for Merrick Garland, Barack Obama's pick for the Supreme Court.
The moment McConnell couldn't be bothered to do his job: hold confirmation hearings for Merrick Garland, Barack Obama's pick for the Supreme Court.
⁉️So who's it going to be? Who's up for a power grab?
Richard Burr? @SenatorBurr
Ben Sasse? @BenSasse
Marco Rubio? @marcorubio
🇷🇺It's hard to find Republican Senators who haven't been compromised by Russia!
Richard Burr? @SenatorBurr
Ben Sasse? @BenSasse
Marco Rubio? @marcorubio
🇷🇺It's hard to find Republican Senators who haven't been compromised by Russia!
🚨🚨🚨🚨AND h/t @shasimss...
🚨🚨🚨In December 2018, Mitch McConnell's BROTHER-IN-LAW, Gordon Hartogensis, was recently named to head the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, a big government agency fighting a $54 billion pension crisis.
💥Wow.
politico.com/story/2018/12/…
🚨🚨🚨In December 2018, Mitch McConnell's BROTHER-IN-LAW, Gordon Hartogensis, was recently named to head the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, a big government agency fighting a $54 billion pension crisis.
💥Wow.
politico.com/story/2018/12/…
