I think McConnell is so full of BS...

[kadee79]

The whole Senate area should smell like a manure pile!

The disclosure comes as Democrats are pushing the Trump administration to review Rusal’s $200 million investment in the Kentucky project — concerned that the mill will supply the Defense Department — and as McConnell weathers criticism for helping block a congressional effort to stop the investment. 

The Russian firm was only able to make the investment after it won sanctions relief from penalties the Treasury Department initially imposed in April 2018 on Rusal and other companies owned by Oleg Deripaska, a Russian oligarch and Kremlin ally accused of facilitating Moscow’s nefarious activities, such as seizing land in Ukraine, supplying arms for the Syrian regime and meddling in other countries’ elections.

Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin announced in December that the department would lift the sanctions on Deripaska's companies, which had roiled global aluminum markets, if the oligarch agreed to drastically reduce his stake in the businesses. The deal was reportedly potentially beneficial to Deripaska, however. Deripaska himself still remains under U.S. sanctions.

Attention over the sanctions relief deal has focused on McConnell, given his role in halting a bipartisan congressional effort in January to stop the penalties rollback. McConnell told reporters in May that his support for lifting the sanctions was “completely unrelated to anything that might happen in my home state.”

www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/ex-mcconnell-staffers-lobbied-on-russian-backed-kentucky-project/ar-AAFcf0R?li=BBnbfcL

[busymom]

Riiiiiiiiiight.  Just a coincidence.  Just how does he sleep at night?  

[dondub]

6 fingers of Kentucky Bourbon Whiskey and a handful of Ambien.

[kadee79]

And I think it's funny that his new "name" is making him furious too!...Moscow!

Oh and read earlier....Ky. coal miners say he hasn't done anything for them...and they want him to quit dragging his feet on the Black Lung Funding too....it's going way down as coal isn't being used as much.

[thyme4change]

I don't think he needs sleeping aids. I honestly think he doesn't give a single shit about anyone else, as long as he gets what he wants.

[dondub]

It made a nice post.😎

[NomoreDramaQ1015]

Mitch is Palpatine.  Trump is Jar Jar Binks.

[busymom]

I think Palpatine actually lives in Moscow.  But you're spot on about Jar Jar Binks.  

[Gardening Grandma]

Aug 1, 2019 22:53:39 GMT -5 thyme4change said:

I don't think he needs sleeping aids. I honestly think he doesn't give a single shit about anyone else, as long as he gets what he wants.

You might think he'd have some concern about what the history books will say about him... Apparently not.

One of the most openly corrupt politicians ever.

[thyme4change]

He will be dead. He won't care.

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Aug 2, 2019 7:22:50 GMT -5 NomoreDramaQ1015 said:

Mitch is Palpatine.  Trump is Jar Jar Binks.

This is actually a great comparison if you know the whole Jar Jar story past episode 1.