A group of Russian nationals were able to donate to newly elected House Speaker Mike Johnson’s campaign in 2018 by funneling the money through a U.S. company.

The Texas-based American Ethane company previously donated tens of thousands of dollars to the campaigns of Louisiana Republicans including Johnson, who was voted by the House to replace Rep. Kevin McCarthy as Speaker on Wednesday following three weeks of GOP chaos in the lower chamber.

While American Ethane was run in 2018 by American John Houghtaling, 88 percent of the firm was owned by three Russian nationals—Konstantin Nikolaev, Mikhail Yuriev, and Andrey Kunatbaev.

  • LillyPip@lemmy.ca
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    You mentioned the Holocaust, which is the most egregious recent example. I’ve yet to get a satisfactory answer to where the good Christian Germans were during that?

    Where were they during the Crusades? Where were they during the Inquisition?

    Where are they now?

    • ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Exactly. They’re out marching with the Proud Boys, overturning democracy, cheering the bullying of whatever not-like-them person or outgroup Fox News has raised their ire against today, sending money to Donald “You can call me Messiah” Trump, etc OR sitting quietly and complicitly with their consciences, embarrassed at the rest of them but unable to do much else because their own “Christian” organizations will NOT speak against these horribly behaved but paying tithers, and “god” itself is running about 2000 years too late on the return leg of his announced round trip.