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(66,529 posts)Oh, and a fan.
Preferably paper.
With a funeral home logo on it.
Blue Owl
(50,587 posts)This shrill hothouse flower comes cheap, don't he?
Doodley
(9,176 posts)CatMor
(6,212 posts)disgusting.
IluvPitties
(3,181 posts)oasis
(49,490 posts)Sen. John McCain spinning in his grave.
mitch96
(13,947 posts)Most congress and senators complain that they spend HALF their time in Washington just begging for money to get re elected. Getting a bucket load of cash would relieve a great weight off of them.. Problem now is the donor, in this case Russia has leverage over them..ie
KOMPROMAT!!! That's why he is so Russia/tRump/pUtin friendly... uggh..
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BigmanPigman
(51,660 posts)We are really screwed, aren't we?
Amaryllis
(9,527 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,560 posts)I had failed to bookmark that before.
Stonepounder
(4,033 posts)that from the farthest SW point in Ky to the nearest point where you could cross the border into Mexico is more than 1,000 miles. Not sure why the wall would be better for Ky school children than actually having a school.
spanone
(135,947 posts)PeeJ52
(1,588 posts)Generic Brad
(14,276 posts)He was so over the top on the Sunday morning news shows today - wanting to investigate the investigators. Sounds like the walls may be closing in on him.
marylandblue
(12,344 posts)to those kind of results.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)YOHABLO
(7,358 posts)shanny
(6,709 posts)Maybe he held out for a higher payoff than many...so, kudos, I guess? Also he seems an honest politician: he stays paid for.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,560 posts)From the PDF :
Lastly, the report notes that Sen. Graham received illegal campaign donations from a Chinese-American virologist.
The person who arranged the illegal campaign donations scheme was a biotech company CEO named Dr. Jian-Yun Dong aka Dr. John Dong and his wife Dahner Wang. Eventually, Dong was convicted for arranging illegal foreign campaign contributions to Graham and was sentenced to 18 months in jail for that charge. He received an additional 70-month federal jail sentence in his second trial on federal corruption charges, for converting research funds into a lobbying slush fund and a source of funds for real estate improvements.
Sen. Graham helped Dr. Dong obtain earmarks totaling $19.6 million in federal grants from NIH and the military. His wife Wang turned on him, cooperating with prosecutors and leading to the scientists conviction and imprisonment.
Lindsey Graham was not charged in the criminal case against Dr. Dong, because prosecutors found no evidence he knew of multiple illegal schemes by his political donor.
Hassler
(3,402 posts)This time with tears and blubbering. Kind of Judge Boof meets Richard Nixon.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)then the assistance of money to keep an asset in power. Heavens know our own kleptocratic billionaires will donate all the money he could need as long as he continues to serve them.
It makes sense given the corruption of so many of these people and his truly aberrant behaviors. He's one of a number of nationally known people of power and/or influence whose friends don't recognize them. (Jonathan Turley's another who was just bizarrely arguing that Trump should win his case for authoritarian power grabs in SCOTUS.) Guessing there are plenty of others whose names aren't well known.
Wouldn't have to be Russia jerking their bits, either, though the same and/or different "dirt" might be held by enemies foreign and domestic.
Add to that, of course, the power of those who want to keep power to persuade themselves it's only right that they do.