Thread by @MontyBoa99

Why are the Republicans so eager to defend Trump and obstruct any investigation into Russian campaign interference.
We've known the reason for 2 years: they're compromised.

How did the Russians compromise them?
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The Kremlin compromised the Republican Party using several methods:

a. Illegal campaign donations
b. Stealing compromising communications and documents via hacking the RNC and SmarTech-hosted GOP acts and websites
c. Setting up or agreeing to compromising acts/meetings
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The Russians funneled at least $8 million into GOP campaigns, including Trump's, McConnell's and Graham's.

Although some of these came through dual nationals to try to skirt the law, the orders to do so from the Kremlin still make them illegal.

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dallasnews.com/opinion/commen…

How did the Kremlin compromise the GOP, leading to their bizarre pro-Russian behavior?

By hacking GOP accounts and websites, and threatening to expose what they found. The GOP folded.

(Research by Richard Painter and Leanne Watt, PhD)

https://mobile.twitter.com/leannewattphd/status/1059135615231377408

(Kremlin kompromat on the GOP, cont.)

The (Smar/Gov)Tech web hosting company started small with Jeb Bush, but rapidly expanded to host Mike Pence and other GOP state entities, before absorbing the sensitive materials of GOP Congressional committees.

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books.google.com/books?id=ZogRg…

The Kremlin hacked SmarTech, then released some of the stolen GOP docs through their DCLeaks front. (We don't know what they're still holding in reserve.)

Arrests of pedophiles in 3 states followed, cowing the GOP. Mission accomplished.

See Mueller Report p. 42, Note 140.
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The above excerpt is from the book "Boss Rove: Inside Karl Rove's Secret Kingdom of Power" by Craig Unger, Scribner & Sons, 2014.)
Accessed via Google Books.
Highlights h/t random facts girl.
@soychicka

(Kremlin kompromat on the GOP, cont.)
Mysterious meetings:
- 17 Trump campaign officials have lied about over 100 meetings w/ Russians
- Nunes, Rohrabacher and even Roy Moore speak Russian
- GOP Senators went to Moscow on July 4; some pretended they were still in the US
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(Mysterious meetings, cont.)
- Erik Prince met w/ the head of Russia's state investment fund secretly in the Seychelles
- Kushner met with the head of a sanctioned Russian bank in Trump Tower
- Junior, Kushner, Manafort w/ indicted Kremlin lawyer Veselnitskaya, TT 6/9/2016
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(Mysterious meetings, cont.)
- POUTS has met w/ Putin in secret 5 times, and violated the Federal Records Act and committed obstruction of justice by destroying the evidence (translator notes, etc)

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The GOP has offered no coherent justification for all these actions. Their only response has been to distort the facts, craft hoaxes, and attack those holding them accountable.

There's only one reasonable explanation: the Republican Party has sold out to the Russians.
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