Back In The USSR Timeline Part 7 — Moscow Mitch and the Sniveling Senators
Mitch McConnell, Marco Rubio, Lindsey Graham, and several other Republicans received $7.35 million in contributions from a Ukrainian born oligarch, Leonard Blavatnik, the business partner of two of Putin’s oligarchs and a Russian bank. He holds a dual citizenship with the US and the UK. Mitch McConnell took the most — $2.5 million. Marco Rubio got $1.5 million and Lindsey Graham got $800,000. He wrote a check for $1 million to Trump’s inauguration fund too.
Mitch McConnell visited Trump in Trump Tower on January 9, 2017, the same day that Russian oligarch Victor Vekselberg was there asking Michael Cohen to ask Trump to go easy on Russia in exchange for $1 million.
Did Mitch McConnell know that Russia was interfering with the presidential election when he interfered with Obama appointing Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court?
Moscow Mitch was dead set against investigating the Russians interfering with the presidential election and used his power to keep it from happening. He also used his power to get the sanctions lifted on Russia, specifically Rusal, the Russian aluminum producer owned by Oligarch Oleg Deripaska, the same guy who paid Paul Manafort $10 million every year. After the Republicans got the sanctions lifted, voila! A new aluminum-rolling mill in Moscow Mitch’s state, Kentucky, compliments of Oleg Deripaska.
7 Republican senators spent the 4th of July in Moscow in 2018 — Richard Shelby of Alabama, John Kennedy of Louisiana, John Hoeven of North Dakota, Jerry Moran of Kansas, Steve Daines of Montana, John Thune of South Dakota, and Ron Johnson of Wisconsin.
After they all got back from Russia, Ron Johnson said he thought it was time to reevaluate the US sanctions on Russia for annexing Crimea. Richard Shelby downplayed Russia’s meddling in our election as “everybody does it.”
The senators’ Moscow trip was a couple of weeks before Trump’s summit with Putin. They met in secret on the very day that the Senate Intelligence Committee formally announced that they believed the Russians had attacked the presidential election to get Trump elected.
The Republicans went back to Russia on August 6. After meeting Russian members of parliament in Moscow, Rand Paul invited the Russians to Washington. When asked about Russia meddling in our election, Rand Paul brushed it off because like Richard Shelby said, everybody does it. He delivered a letter from Trump to Putin’s administration letting Putin know he’d like to meet with him.
Oleg Deripaska, Moscow Mitch’s benefactor, has been connected to the Kremlin for over 20 years, ever since he married into Boris Yeltsin’s family. He paid Paul Manafort through the Bank of Cyprus to advance Putin’s global agenda.
Wilbur Ross, Trump’s commerce secretary, was once the vice chair of the Bank of Cyprus where Russian oligarchs store their cash. He presided over a deal with a Russian businessman with ties to Vladimir Putin who funneled money to Deutsche Bank which has recklessly been loaning Trump money for decades and is under federal investigation.
Moscow Mitch is worried. You can see it in his face. He looked like he was about to cry at the State of the Union address. Ruble for your thoughts, Mitch. Corruption got you down? He’s very unpopular in his state yet he still won re-election because he had outside help.
Marco Rubio is worried, too. On top of fearing what might happen to him because he takes Russian money, he is up for re-election this year. Val Demings is challenging him. She’s a former police chief and a current member of the House of Representatives. Since the Russian mafia is all over Florida and Val Demings has a law enforcement background, things could get gnarly for Marco.
Things are going to get gnarly for a lot of Republican senators. They know trouble is coming, they just don’t know what and how much. That’s why Moscow Mitch is about to cry.
