The unlikely, unholy alliance between Rand Paul and Donald Trump, one a libertarian iconoclast, the other the cancerous center of the Republican party, has cemented itself in golf games and frequent phone calls.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/08/rand-paul-donald-trump-perfect-russia-stooge

Rand goes to Russia:

Many have also seen the visuals of Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul hobnobbing in Moscow this week with members of the Russian Council, sometimes called his "counterparts." These included the chairman of the council's foreign policy panel, Konstantin Kosachev, who happens to be under official U.S. sanction for his government's actions against our government.

https://www.npr.org/2018/08/09/636982295/is-it-springtime-for-putin-and-republicans