re: #14 Archangelus

IMO, it’s all about greed.
There’s been so many allegations of how Russian oligarch’s may have funneled cash into GOP campaigns that it wouldn’t surprise me one bit to find out that Turtle was in the center of it all.
Follow the money.

This article makes that very claim.

Dallas News - GOP campaigns took $7.35 million from oligarch linked to Russia

Two of the paragraphs from the article:

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Donald Trump and the political action committees for Mitch McConnell, Marco Rubio, Scott Walker, Lindsey Graham, John Kasich and John McCain accepted $7.35 million in contributions from a Ukrainian-born oligarch who is the business partner of two of Russian president Vladimir Putin’s favorite oligarchs and a Russian government bank.

During the 2015-2016 election season, Ukrainian-born billionaire Leonard “Len” Blavatnik contributed $6.35 million to leading Republican candidates and incumbent senators. Mitch McConnell was the top recipient of Blavatnik’s donations, collecting $2.5 million for his GOP Senate Leadership Fund under the names of two of Blavatnik’s holding companies, Access Industries and AI Altep Holdings, according to Federal Election Commission documents and OpenSecrets.org.

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