GOP House Majority Leader Recorded Saying He Thinks Trump Being Paid By Putin.

House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy on left with Paul Ryan.

GOP House Majority Leader Recorded Saying He Thinks Trump Being Paid By Putin.

May 17, 2017 6:30pm EDT by Seashells

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So much happening right now but this is a BFD: House Leader McCarthy was recorded in 2016 saying Trump was getting money from Russia/Putin. House Speaker Ryan was present and stopped the convo swearing those present to secrecy. 

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.

House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) immediately interjected, stopping the conversation from further exploring McCarthy’s assertion, and swore the Republicans present to secrecy.

Before the conversation, McCarthy and Ryan had emerged from separate talks at the U.S. Capitol with Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman, who had described a Kremlin tactic of financing populist politicians to undercut Eastern European democratic institutions.

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