KIEV - A month before Donald Trump clinched the Republican nomination, one of his closest allies in Congress - House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy - made a politically explosive assertion in a private conversation on Capitol Hill with his fellow GOP leaders: that Trump could be the beneficiary of payments from Russian President Vladimir Putin.
"There's two people I think Putin pays: Rohrabacher and Trump," McCarthy, R-Calif., said, according to a recording of the June 15, 2016 exchange, which was listened to and verified by The Washington Post. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher is a Californian Republican known in Congress as a fervent defender of Putin and Russia.
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It looks like GOP leadership KNEW about the hacking and also knew with WHOM the Russians were sharing the stolen emails.
McCarthy and Ryan were caught on tape DISCUSSING Russia's hacking of DNC servers. Ryan asked McCarthy to whom the Russians delivered the stolen material, and McCarthy weirdly answered, ''There's two people I think Putin pays: Rhorabacher and Trump . . . (laughter) . . . swear to God.''
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“It’s true that Majority Leader McCarthy said that he thought candidate Trump was on the Kremlin’s payroll. Speaker Ryan was concerned about that leaking.” > Evan McMullin - policy director to the House Republican Conference.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/house-majority-leader-to-colleagues-in-2016-i-think-putin-pays-trump/2017/05/17/515f6f8a-3aff-11e7-8854-21f359183e8c_story.html
