McConnell, Kasich, Rubio, McCain, Graham, Scott Walker all got money from one single Russian.
More info here
Michael Cohen was the Deputy Finance Chairman of the RNC
A confirmed Russian spy was moving money through the NRA to politicians - full affidavit for the details on Butina
All Republicans in the senate, a large amount of Republicans in the house and a 4 Dems in the house took money from the NRA
The NRA and the Trump campaign were illegally coordinating ad buys.
NRA May Have Illegally Coordinated With GOP Senate Campaigns
The thing is, with all this information out there. All that the Russians needed to get by hacking the GOP was that they knew that the money was coming from Russia (illegally) to the NRA and they have everyone on the hook for knowingly taking that money. What are your odds that the people who can't figure out how to format a PDF were talking about it in emails or other tech?
EXAMPLE:
Graham before December 2016
[Trump] He is a jackass... and he shouldn't be Commander in Chief
Graham after December 2016
I am like the happiest dude in America right now,” a beaming Graham said on “Fox & Friends.” “We have got a president and a national security team that I've been dreaming of for eight years.
What happened between? - Graham: Russians hacked my campaign email account
And somewhere in there he took Russian money.
For those of you thinking about Pence
Pence is the guy who vouched for Flynn in the transition team (that Pence lead) - even publicly stated that Flynn had no contacts with Russia.
The same transition team that is listed in Flynn's sentencing memo
Mueller says Flynn helped his investigation “on a range of issues, including interactions between individuals in the Presidential Transition Team and Russia.” Then he mentions something else that is redacted. So there appear to be two main areas here where Flynn is helping.
He also claims he didn't know Flynn was under investigation
Vice President Pence is standing by his claims that he did not know former national security adviser Michael Flynn had been secretly lobbying for the Turkish government until March, despite a new report claiming Flynn had actually disclosed to the Trump transition team back in January that he was under a federal investigation
Pence was hand picked by Manafort after he took over.
Paul Manafort, who was hit with 12 counts tied to alleged financial schemes, pushed for Pence to become Trump's running mate and even managed to talk Trump out of his doubts.
The top Democrat on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform told then Vice President-elect Mike Pence in a November letter that the man Donald Trump had tapped to be his national security adviser was lobbying on behalf of a foreign government.
So we know for a fact that he was informed by the oversight committee and then he rapidly went in public and stated that Flynn had no contacts with Russia.
Given that piece of information, and the fact that we know that the erratic behavior around explaining to Trump that people were dirty and his response was to ignore them and then lie about it - is what caused him to have a counterintelligence investigation into him, what do you think the chances are that the scope of that counterintelligence included anyone in Trump's circle that would be considered part of a RICO case.
Say.... perhaps.... the Vice President who was actively lying about intelligence information he was given.
This article gives some interesting insight
Oct. 14, 2016: Pence says on Fox News that the national media is chasing after unsubstantiated allegations that the Trump campaign is in cahoots with WikiLeaks, a website that publishes documents from anonymous sources. “Nothing could be further from the truth,” Pence says.
Dec. 28, 2016: Obama signs an executive order announcing sanctions against Russia for interfering in the 2016 election. Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak contacts Flynn, according to Flynn’s plea agreement. Pence is in Indiana for his son's wedding.
Dec. 29, 2016: Flynn calls “a senior official of the Presidential Transition Team," according to the plea agreement, at Trump’s Mar-A-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Fla. for guidance on talking to Kislyak. (Other senior members of the transition were also at the resort.) Flynn then calls Kislyak and asks him not to “escalate the situation," and reports the conversation back to a transition official.
Dec. 30, 2016: Russian President Vladimir Putin announces Russia will not retaliate.
Jan. 12, 2016: The Washington Post reports Flynn and Kislyak spoke several times as the sanctions announcement was unfolding.
Jan. 15, 2017: Pence discusses the calls between Flynn and Kislyak on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” saying “they did not discuss anything having to do with the United States’ decision to expel diplomats or impose censure against Russia.”
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