GOP Lawmaker Got Direction From Moscow, Took It Back to D.C.

[riversedge]

Source: dailybeast







07.19.17 1:00 AM ET

Members of the team of Russians who secured a June 2016 Trump Tower meeting with Donald Trump Jr. and Jared Kushner also attempted to stage a show trial of anti-Putin campaigner Bill Browder on Capitol Hill.

The trial, which would have come in the form of a congressional hearing, was scheduled for mid-June 2016 by Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA), a long-standing Russia ally who chairs the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Europe. During the hearing, Rohrabacher had planned to confront Browder with a feature-length pro-Kremlin propaganda movie that viciously attacks him—as well as at least two witnesses linked to the Russian authorities, including lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya.
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Ultimately, the hearing was canceled when senior Republicans intervened and agreed to allow a hearing on Russia at the full committee level with a Moscow-sympathetic witness, according to multiple congressional aides.

An email reviewed by The Daily Beast shows that before that June 14 hearing, Rohrabacher’s staff received pro-Kremlin briefings against Browder, once Russia’s biggest foreign investor, and his tax attorney Sergei Magnitsky from a lawyer who was working with Veselnitskaya...........................

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After being given a secret document by officials in Moscow, Rep. Dana Rohrabacher sought to alter sanctions legislation and tried to set up a virtual show trial on Capitol Hill.

[Achilleaze]

1. republican traitors to America are criminal skunks

lock them up.

[bdtrppr6]

2. Rohrabacher is

a Russian Tool.

[underpants]

3. So does this mean the Russians have info on the ancient civilization on Mars?

Man, they know everything

[democratisphere]

4. Russian Federation redumbliCON party will stop at nothing to destroy our country.

[SunSeeker]

5. K & R for exposure.

[janx]

6. So would this make him an agent or a lobbyist for Russia?

He'll have to explain just how this fits into his role as the chair of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Europe.

[LiberalLovinLug]

7. Putin's mafia criminal organization has been in cahoots with the GOP for years it now looks like.

That Citizens United ruling opened up a vast pit of laundered dark Russian money for the GOP.

[stuffmatters]

12. Yep.Start by looking into the anti democracy dark money of Koch Bros' donors per Ca Prop 32

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In 2012 there were two Koch Bros' propositions on the ballot in Ca that they funded by millions of dollars in dark money. One was against Brown's measure to raise taxes to plug up a deficit, another was against unions contributing to elections.( Since Republicans don't have power in Ca, the Propositions process has become the Koch Bros et alios instrument for messing with Ca.)

The Koch Bros hit the wall of Ca campaign Finance Law with these two ginormous campaigns against Californians. Their vipers nest of
501 C4's were exposed by Ca as conduits for millions and millions in dark money. At the time of the judgment and fine, the "dark money" violations were described only as coming from out of state sources. Today that campaign and all the dummy Koch 501C4s that funneled those anonymous millions, one can't help but suspect even darker, more sinister donations.

Given that the connecting dots are emerging. that Koch Bros and Putin and the Republican Machine all share the same anti democracy & pro kleptocracy agenda, Trump. Rohrbacher, the Prop 32 revelations all appear to be just the tip of the iceberg. .

Hopefully Mueller will follow all the strings to where they meet; our democracy depends upon it.

[onit2day]

8. How much are the Russians paying him

He was not elected to be a traitor

[Me.]

9. How Is He Not On Trial Himself

[Sunlei]

10. I'd like to know what Ms Stein did for the dinner in Moscow besides the lovely paid vakay.

[UpInArms]

11. This needs to be read and understood by everyone

The Republican Party is infested with Russian operatives and

They need to face the US justice system on charges of treason

[dalton99a]

14. +1

[Bradical79]

13. It blows my mind what they get away with

There was a time where I really thought they could at least draw the line at espionage and treason.