"The money didn’t come from China, Ukraine, or Burisma"
huh weird what does that leave out https://t.co/ZbKebQgcjM
— lulag tankie (@revhowardarson) January 13, 2023
No doubt intended as a dig against Hunter Biden. Then again, per the Washington Post, May 2017:
A month before Donald Trump clinched the Republican nomination, one of his closest allies in Congress — House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy — made a politically explosive assertion in a private conversation on Capitol Hill with his fellow GOP leaders: that Trump could be the beneficiary of payments from Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“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.
House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) immediately interjected, stopping the conversation from further exploring McCarthy’s assertion, and swore the Republicans present to secrecy…
Some of the lawmakers laughed at McCarthy’s comment. Then McCarthy quickly added: “Swear to God.”
Ryan instructed his Republican lieutenants to keep the conversation private, saying: “No leaks. . . . This is how we know we’re a real family here.”…
Or maybe it was just old-fashioned Repubs-for-Republicans chicanery:
The reason NY Repubs want Santos to resign is almost certainly bc they’re afraid Santos’ financial schemes involve some of their important donors
— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) January 12, 2023
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