What does Donald Trump have over these Republicans in Congress. Watching Senator Lankford- Oklahoma, talk about immigration to Margaret Brennan on Face The Nation -- you can sense the animal fear these people have of Trump.
What does he have over them?
@Npars01 I am horrified that there are least 133 billionaires in the US. “Forbes has identified over 133 domestic billionaires who funded Trump in 2020.”. Tax them now.
Alexander Voloshin, Oleg Deripaska, Konstantin Nikolaev, Mikhail Yuriev, and Andrey Kunatbaev all funded the GOP, & the Russians play rough, as Prigozhin's fate demonstrates.
@Npars01 yep. We know of 30 million from Russia that went to Trump went through the NRA. But they weren't the only Republicans that got NRA Russian money.
@spocko@Npars01
Ron "Putin's Boy" Johnson, called home to Moscow on July 4, 2018, with his Republican co-compromatskis, to bend to Vlad. Came back saying that Russian interference in the election was overblown. He took NRussA money.
@MHowell@spocko@Npars01
Focusing on the guilt-by-association /Russia factor plays into the conservatives hands. That was their go-to smear for decades. It's also a logical fallacy.
The real issue is political bribery/campaign donations.
@Npars01@jackhutton Tax them into oblivion. Remove the SS cap. Luxury tax on their planes and boats. Wealth tax of 90% on any amount over 1 billion. Estate tax of 100% on amounts over 100 million. I think this may be too generous. No tax exempt status for their phony fascist “think tanks”. Billionaires are are out of control and destroying the world. Perfect example: Elmo.
@Gurre@Npars01@jackhutton
Many countries were working on worldwide financial enforcement to stop money laundering, I wonder what happened to that. What utterly floored me is when I found out about all the artwork stored in those freeports where the billionaires keep their art so they don't have to pay any taxes on it. Locked up so no one ever sees or enjoys it. No even them! These are very sick people. 😆 🤬
@jackhutton A massive amount of kompromat that the party had gathered itself to use for their own purposes when they needed to make someone resign, that #Russia raided from their computers in 2016.
I think this plays a bigger role than we tend to acknowledge. Lankford and everyone similarly situated all saw the rope intended for Mike Pence, they saw what happened to Paul Pelosi, and they're terrified they'll be next if they're perceived to be crossing Trump.
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