{"id":72139,"date":"2017-05-18T08:00:02","date_gmt":"2017-05-18T12:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=72139"},"modified":"2017-05-18T08:10:56","modified_gmt":"2017-05-18T12:10:56","slug":"washington-post-jumps-the-trump-shark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=72139","title":{"rendered":"Washington Post jumps the Trump shark"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Last night, the Washington Post breathlessly reported “House majority leader to colleagues in 2016: \u2018I think Putin pays\u2019 Trump<\/a>“. In the article they recounted that conversation;<\/p>\n

A month before Donald Trump clinched the Republican nomination, one of his closest allies in Congress \u2014 House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy \u2014 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.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s two people I think Putin pays: Rohrabacher and Trump,\u201d 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.<\/p>\n

House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) immediately interjected, stopping the conversation from further exploring McCarthy\u2019s assertion, and swore the Republicans present to secrecy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It sounds very conspiratorial doesn’t it. Well, an actual transcript <\/a>of the conversation tells a different story;<\/p>\n

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There are four incidences of [Laughter] that aren’t in the text of the Washington Post article. If the internet has taught us anything, the written word is difficult to judge without some kind of emotional context-that’s why we now have emojis with which to express ourselves. The Congressmen were joking – like that time Ronald Reagan joked that he was bombing the Soviet Union after he outlawed it.<\/p>\n

This article rates right up there, or right down there, with the two scoops of ice cream article on CNN<\/a> last week. Between you and me, I don’t think Putin could afford Trump.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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