#corruption101 #explainedindetails #atleast15years FIFTEEN YEARS!!!! #russianlobby #steveschmidt the onetime #John McCain #campaignstrategist who has turned into a fierce critic of the #RepublicanParty and hero to a certain kind of resistance liberal, published a blog post on Sunday night accusing McCain of concealing the truth about an affair he was having — and asserting that he was too afraid of Sarah Palin to halt the #GOP’s slide into lunacy. The post comes on the heels of attacks Schmidt leveled at Meghan McCain over the weekend, in which he accused the late senator’s daughter of being a “bully, entitled, unaccomplished, spoiled and mean,” among many other things. Schmidt claims that the Arizona senator, whom he has long venerated, lied to him and to the American public about an affair, and that the relationship’s existence was the reason McCain looked the other way while his campaign manager, #RickDavis, worked to advance #Russianinterests with #lobbying partner #PaulManafort. (Note to young readers: In the pre-2016 #RepublicanParty, these sorts of transgressions were still generally frowned upon.) “The burden of carrying this lie — while being attacked for 14 consecutive years by the bully Meghan McCain — has finally reached its end for me,” He writes. He joined McCain’s ’08 campaign on a volunteer basis as it was foundering, and writes that McCain became so afraid of upsetting the Republican base that he was hesitant to criticize Sarah Palin — whom Schmidt suggested as a running mate before realizing she was wildly unqualified. Schmidt’s post is full of the melodramatic and grandiose style familiar to perusers of his Twitter feed over the years, thick with weighty pronouncements about truth and honor. Another sample passage: “You see, when I was 36 years old, I did not understand the difference between integrity and loyalty. Before I met John McCain, I would have answered that they were indistinguishable from one another. John McCain taught me a hard lesson about the differences between the two.#russiaisdestroyingourcountryfromwithin #stoprepublicans #stoprussianaggression #therepublicanpartyissoldout to #russia of all places. #stopthem #lockthemallup https://www.instagram.com/p/CdWKwk6p570/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=