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  I have no confidence in Republicans to do anything about him, but the DOJ is already involved with the case and Santos isn't important enough to shield from prosecution.
context: well, somebody spent a lot of money to get this clown stuffed into the Right's clown car 
  if you tried to pitch this guy as a character in a fictional story you'd get laughed out of the room >
  
  Santos can't be the only, there has to be more grifters that ran in last year's elections.
  Russian interests don't stop with one candidate... >
  
  Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the pathological liar ex-press secretary who just got elected gov of Arkansas. I’m convinced her daddy bought her that press secretary job (no way in hell would Donald Trump, who’s obsessed with image & hot 20 yr old pageant girls hire an unattractive, overweight 40 year old to be the face everyone sees when they watch press conferences about the Trump administration). With her daddy as corrupt as he is? You know there was money involved. To win a governors race though? I don’t know. 
  I do know she spent the entire year in Florida, not Arkansas, begging people for money because outside of that press secretary stunt? That woman never had a job in her 40 years on this earth. 
  Between her and Santos I just see two scam artists with bad teeth. >
  
  Meanwhile, her opponent was a a young black minister who earned an PhD in urban planning from MIT and had previously worked as a physicist. He only got about 35% of the vote. >
  
  Damn. That's depressing >
  
  As a born and bred Californian living a state north from Arkansas…. it’s unbelievable how folks think these people are on the side of the righteous. I’ve lived abroad and traveled to 3 other continents but the biggest culture shock of my life was moving to mid-America >
  
  Born in Texas and lived in southern states till I left for the Marine Corps. World travel was a shock, and made me realize how backward my family and the states I had lived in are. >
  
  Travel changes perspectives and challenges our own expectations about the world. Glad you got the experience and hope all of it was ultimately positive for you! >
  
  it was an eye opener for certain. My brother also went in, but spent his entire tour in N Carolina. Learned nothing in this aspect. >
  
  always interesting how similar experiences can influence people totally differently >
  
  It's amazing just how many republicans can be linked to Russians. >
  
  And stupid ones and pathological liars at that. >
  
  They do appear to have a type. >
  
  McCarthy was so desperate to be Speaker that he didn't want to look into Santos.  Now, we're finding out that Santos is a Russian plant of a sanctioned oligarch who wanted McCarthy to be Speaker.  I hope this leads to more revelations of money laundering and other financial crimes.  It's time to clean House. >
  
  Why else do you think the Republicans have hobbled the House Ethics Committee's ability to investigate?  They know where the rot is, they just don't want anybody else to find out.