Pete Sessions downplays meeting with Soviet-born businessmen caught in Trump impeachment inquiry

[TexasTowelie]

Former U.S. Rep. Pete Sessions is downplaying meetings that he had with two Soviet-born businessmen that are now ensnarled in the impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump.

During a recording Friday for Sunday's edition of Lone Star Politics on KXAS-TV (NBC5), Sessions acknowledged that he met with business partners Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman when he represented Dallas County's District 32 in Congress.

"This was during the campaign, early in the campaign, and they did come by my office and I did meet them and I did meet them off the Hill and they did become contributors," Sessions said. "That is not unusual for you to meet people who then become contributors."

Sessions noted that the men, who told him they were partners in a business called Global Energy Producers, are working with Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter Biden, who was on the board of a leading Ukrainian gas company.

Read more: https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2019/10/04/pete-sessions-downplays-meeting-soviet-born-businessman-caught-trump-impeachment-inquiry/

[tanyev]

1. Came to his office, hmm?

I bet they paid a call on every Republican in the House and Senate. Blackmail for those accepted money, threats for those who didn’t.