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  1. The more I read and hear about Republicans conspiring with agents of Russia, the more I'm convinced, that the GOP has sold out America to the Russians in order to try and stay in power... I believe that Republicans came to an agreement with Russia, that if it funneled money into their campaigns, and launched a disinformation campaign on the American people, that would help them stay in power, then in return, Republicans would lift the crippling economic sanctions that President Obama placed on Russia. There are simply too many connections between Republicans and Russians for it to be a coincidence. And I don't believe in coincidences. In 2018, eight republican lawmakers celebrated the 4th of July in Moscow: Senator Richard C. Shelby of Alabama, who led the delegation, along with Senators Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, John Neely Kennedy of Louisiana, Steve Daines of Montana, North Dakota’s John Hoeven, Jerry Moran of Kansas, South Dakota’s John Thune, and Rep. Kay Granger of the 12th District of Texas. The dubious reason they gave for the trip was “engagement." It's the same tired excuse Sen Rand Paul routinely provides to justify his own shadowy meetings with our enemies. The group met with a number of key Russians, including foreign minister Sergei Lavrov and former Russian ambassador to the US Sergei Kislyak—the two jackals who 14 months earlier were photographed by the Russian press yukking it up with Trump in the Oval Office, the day after Trump fired Comey for daring to do his job of investigating Russian interference in our elections. To this day, we have no way of knowing what was discussed during their visit to Moscow, as the media was barred from the closed-door meetings, much to the delight of the “gloating” Russians. Sen Ron Johnson has been the most outspoken when defending Trump. So  much so that during an interview on Meet the Press in October 2019, he announced that he doesn’t trust the FBI or the CIA—a clear  admission that he does however trust the GRU and his Russian comrades. Today, the eight republicans that came back from Russia, show all the signs of a Russian GRU sleeper cell. It would explain why they're all regurgitating Russian GRU propaganda to the American people.
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  2. Sen Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, Chuck Grassley of Iowa, and other republicans on Capitol Hill, have been unmasked as Russian operatives for disseminating Russian conspiracy theories, and for aiding and abetting Putin's efforts to interfere in the 2020 election.. Last month, four lawmakers who make up the Democratic half of the Gang of Eight, the group of congressional and intelligence committee leaders who are privy to top-secret intelligence, demanded a briefing for all members of Congress focused on foreign interference in the 2020 election, based on their assertions that lawmakers are being targeted by those meddling efforts. They also have urged Trump to publicly reveal additional information about the nature of the foreign-influence campaign. Intelligence officials told House lawmakers last week that the Russians are seeking to boost Trump in the 2020 campaign. The public version of the letter was vague about those threats, but the classified addendum to the letter specifically names Sen Ron Johnson’s investigation as a vehicle for “laundering”  Russian propaganda for the foreign influence campaign aimed at denigrating Biden. The addendum states that the Ukrainian lawmaker linked to the Kremlin, Andrii Derkach, sent information packets about Biden to Johnson, Grassley and other Trump stooges who have pushed similar Russian conspiracy theories, as part of Putin's disinformation campaign on America. NCSC Director William Evanina, along with other senior national security officials, briefed lawmakers in multiple classified sessions in late July and August. His statement explicitly accused the Ukrainian politician, Derkach, of undermining Biden through weaponized leaks. Derkach is known to have met late last year with Trump's personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani. The packets were sent by Andrii Derkach, a Ukrainian lawmaker who met with Trump’s personal lawyer Giuliani in Ukraine last December. Andrii Derkach, who was formerly aligned with Ukraine’s pro-Russia Party of Regions, is also an alumnus of Moscow’s FSB academy, formerly known as the Dzerzhinsky Higher School of the KGB.  Andrii Derkach’s father Leonid was a KGB operative who later became the head of Ukrainian intelligence, and who was fired in 2004 shortly before Ukraine’s Orange Revolution. The packets were sent late last year to Devin Nunes,  Lindsey Graham, and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), and then-White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney. Devin Nunes, the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, declined to answer a colleague's question about whether he had received derogatory information about Joe Biden from Andrii Derkach. During that closed-door meeting in late July — a transcript of which was made publicly available — Sean Patrick Maloney (D-N.Y.) pressed Nunes about reports indicating that he was one of several GOP lawmakers to whom packets of Russian propaganda were delivered from Derkach in December 2019 that contained allegations about Joe Biden. Derkach has confirmed he sent the packages to Nunes, as well as GOP Sens. Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Lindsey Graham. Nunes refused to answer the question. Maloney responded by suggesting that Nunes's refusal to answer "speaks volumes" and indicated that committee staffers are "in possession of evidence that a package was received" by Nunes. 😲 That evidence, according to committee officials, is in the form of a DHL shipping receipt that was sent to the Intelligence Committee’s majority office shortly after the package was sent to Nunes.. "If any public official or member of any campaign is contacted by any nation-state, or anybody acting on behalf of a nation-state, about influencing or interfering with an election then that's something the FBI would want to know about,” FBI Director Christopher Wray said on June 12, 2019 — a day before Trump rebuked him and said he would probably accept such help.
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