#MoscowMitch and #DirtyDonald — want to put down the security dog that would defend us from Russian cyberterrorists trying to invade our elections, but will send a noisy Chihuahua to yap harmlessly at asylum seekers on our southern border.
They are willing to waste $2.5 billion for an ego monument on the Southern Border that will do nothing to improve border security (instead of a Central American “Marshall Plan” to address the causes so desperate victims of past U.S. interference in their elections [overthrowing democratically elected governments that Reagan or Nixon thought to liberal and replacing them with more compliant military dictatorships]), but not ONE DOLLAR to defend against the very real threat of Russian cyber terrorists invading our elections.
Once upon a time, it was the Republican party — Richard “Kitchen debate” Nixon; Ronald “Mr Gorbachev, tear down this wall” Reagan — who, regardless of any other failings, were known for standing firm when it comes to Russia (or the former USSR).
So why has the party suddenly become the Putin party?
Certainly #DirtyDonald wanting to build Trump Tower Moscow and numerous property deals that smack of years of money laundering (that could engender kompromat) has nothing to do with it.
Certainly #MoscowMitch getting a $200 million aluminum plant in his state of Kentucky, “invested” by Putin confidante, Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska (a frequent subject mentioned in Volume I of the Mueller report), has nothing to do with it. (Putin and Deripaska invest and have been getting phenomenal return on those investments.)
#MoscowMitch and #DirtyDonald — want to put down the security dog that would defend us from Russian cyberterrorists trying to invade our elections, but will send a noisy Chihuahua to yap harmlessly at asylum seekers on our southern border.
They are willing to waste $2.5 billion for an ego monument on the Southern Border that will do nothing to improve border security (instead of a Central American “Marshall Plan” to address the causes so desperate victims of past U.S. interference in their elections [overthrowing democratically elected governments that Reagan or Nixon thought to liberal and replacing them with more compliant military dictatorships]), but not ONE DOLLAR to defend against the very real threat of Russian cyber terrorists invading our elections.
Once upon a time, it was the Republican party — Richard “Kitchen debate” Nixon; Ronald “Mr Gorbachev, tear down this wall” Reagan — who, regardless of any other failings, were known for standing firm when it comes to Russia (or the former USSR).
So why has the party suddenly become the Putin party?
Certainly #DirtyDonald wanting to build Trump Tower Moscow and numerous property deals that smack of years of money laundering (that could engender kompromat) has nothing to do with it.
Certainly #MoscowMitch getting a $200 million aluminum plant in his state of Kentucky, “invested” by Putin confidante, Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska (a frequent subject mentioned in Volume I of the Mueller report), has nothing to do with it. (Putin and Deripaska invest and have been getting phenomenal return on those investments.)
https://www.newsweek.com/company-russian-oligarch-millions-aluminum-plant-mitch-mcconnell-1397061