2016 Postmortem

hollowdweller

(4,229 posts) Sat Dec 10, 2016, 12:16 PM Dec 2016

McConnell shuts down pre election news of Russian hacking. Trump rewards by giving wife a job.

Those 2 things should be on the lips of every democrat on every news show.

Just as Luntz told the GOP to never mention Iraq or Saddam without also mentioning 9/11 we should be doing the above.

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McConnell shuts down pre election news of Russian hacking. Trump rewards by giving wife a job. (Original Post) hollowdweller Dec 2016 OP

tRump could always use another serving wench, and another ass to grab. putitinD Dec 2016 #1

no, he said he doesn't covet older woman or woman who have had kids. he won't grab that. Sunlei Dec 2016 #2

Be bold in the Congressional hearings for Chao exboyfil Dec 2016 #3

Great idea hollowdweller Dec 2016 #7

And demand McConnell abstain from voting on her Retrograde Dec 2016 #9

McConnell's wife was picked to be Sec. of Transportation. Her family runs a global shipping biz. think Dec 2016 #4

Thanks for putting this up. Wellstone ruled Dec 2016 #5

So Trump will help her family make the transition to work with Russia instead of China .... bettyellen Dec 2016 #11

There was a Container ship that made Wellstone ruled Dec 2016 #12

Im guessing that's what sparked the speculation- that somehow Putin was going to try to control or bettyellen Dec 2016 #13

One of the News sites like TPM or Raw Story had Wellstone ruled Dec 2016 #14

"Drain the swamp" oasis Dec 2016 #6

McConnell before a firing squad would be something I would welcome RonniePudding Dec 2016 #8

We need to know what he knew and when. It is our right. Glimmer of Hope Dec 2016 #10

putitinD

(1,551 posts)

1. tRump could always use another serving wench, and another ass to grab.

Reply to hollowdweller (Original post)

Sat Dec 10, 2016, 12:20 PM

Dec 2016

Sunlei

(22,651 posts)

2. no, he said he doesn't covet older woman or woman who have had kids. he won't grab that.

Reply to putitinD (Reply #1)

Sat Dec 10, 2016, 12:24 PM

Dec 2016

exboyfil

(17,999 posts)

3. Be bold in the Congressional hearings for Chao

Reply to hollowdweller (Original post)

Sat Dec 10, 2016, 12:25 PM

Dec 2016

Imply like hell that it was a quid pro quo.

hollowdweller

(4,229 posts)

7. Great idea

Reply to exboyfil (Reply #3)

Sat Dec 10, 2016, 01:43 PM

Dec 2016

Look for any connections there w/Russia

Retrograde

(10,649 posts)

9. And demand McConnell abstain from voting on her

Reply to exboyfil (Reply #3)

Sat Dec 10, 2016, 02:02 PM

Dec 2016

Conflict of interest, y'know, and all that.

think

(11,641 posts)

4. McConnell's wife was picked to be Sec. of Transportation. Her family runs a global shipping biz.

Reply to hollowdweller (Original post)

Sat Dec 10, 2016, 12:37 PM

Dec 2016

Trump's Latest Cabinet Pick Sets Up a Conflict-of-Interest Extraordinaire

Elaine Chao's family runs a global shipping business, and she is Mitch McConnell's wife. How cozy is that!

By Michael Arria / AlterNet November 29, 2016

President-elect Donald Trump has chosen Elaine Chao as his transportation secretary. Chao served as secretary of labor from 2001 to 2009, under President George W. Bush. She is the wife of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.

The appointment of Chao to this position is striking for at least one major reason: her family owns a major international shipping company. Chao's father, James Chao, is the chairman of the Foremost Group, which he founded in 1964. Elaine Chao's sister Angela is currently the deputy chairman of the company. Chao's father began donating to McConnell in the 1980s. In 2008 he gave Chao and McConnell $5 million to $25 million, giving a huge boost to McConnell's personal worth.

Foremost purchases vessels and coordinates the shipment of commodities throughout the globe. In 2014, the Nation's Lee Fang reported that 90 pounds of cocaine was seized by the Colombian Coast Guard from a vessel owned by Foremost. Fang reported that:

The firm...leaves a faint online trace. Foremost’s website FMCNY.com is blank. Records and court documents obtained by The Nation show that the ownership of the company’s vessels—with names such as Ping May, Soya May, Fu May and Grain May—is obscured through a byzantine structure of tax entities.

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)

5. Thanks for putting this up.

Reply to think (Reply #4)

Sat Dec 10, 2016, 01:02 PM

Dec 2016

Another major conflict of Interest involving Mitch McConnell and others. You just can not make this stuff up.

Chao Family was always considered the portal to China by our Business and Manufacturing people. When Kissinger went to China for Nixon,this was his host Family and go between with the Chinese Government.

bettyellen

(47,209 posts)

11. So Trump will help her family make the transition to work with Russia instead of China ....

Reply to Wellstone ruled (Reply #5)

Sat Dec 10, 2016, 05:20 PM

Dec 2016

I'd read that aside from Eastern Europe, Putin has his eyes on the transcontinetal passage that is opening up above Canada due to global warming. When I read that six months ago, it sounded totally nuts. It doesn't any more.

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)

12. There was a Container ship that made

Reply to bettyellen (Reply #11)

Sat Dec 10, 2016, 05:24 PM

Dec 2016

the voyage through the Northwest Passage this past summer. Not sure of the ships ownership,but it was cargo from China to the Eastern Seaboard.

bettyellen

(47,209 posts)

13. Im guessing that's what sparked the speculation- that somehow Putin was going to try to control or

Reply to Wellstone ruled (Reply #12)

Sat Dec 10, 2016, 05:28 PM

Dec 2016

Dominate it? How could that even be a possibility?
I feel like he's going to cancel his debt to China and do a deep dive into business w Russia and not even hide any of it. He'll just claim it's "great for America" and that's what they will report.

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)

14. One of the News sites like TPM or Raw Story had

Reply to bettyellen (Reply #13)

Sat Dec 10, 2016, 05:45 PM

Dec 2016

a story about this and how Russian and American Intelligence Agencies were cashing each other around about the true ownership of the Arctic Waters. Believe the Cuncks have laid claim to what is consider the North west Route. The Area of dispute is off and near the Bering Straight and the New Lands that are poking up as the result of Glacier retreat and lack of Sea Ice. When Palins name popped up,,mu first thought. It is all about the Oil just like Iraq,new day same old Empire Building by Corporate America.