Rohrabacher met w/ Natalia Veselnitskaya in Moscow 2 months before she met with Trump Jr

[MelissaB]

GOP Congressman Met in Moscow With Kremlin-Linked Lawyer at Center of Russia Investigation

Rep. Dana Rohrabacher met in Moscow with Natalia Veselnitskaya two months before she met with Donald Trump Jr.

Rep. Dana Rohrabacher met with the Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya during a 2016 trip to Moscow, a previously undisclosed tête-à-tête that sheds additional light on the extent to which Moscow-based political operatives sought to influence American officials in the run-up to last year’s presidential election.

In an interview with a pro-Russian Crimean news service, Veselnitskaya said she met with Rohrabacher — a California Republican and arguably the most prominent advocate in Congress for closer relations between Washington and Moscow — in April 2016 to discuss issues surrounding the Magnitsky Act, the punitive American sanctions measure responding to Russian human rights abuses that she has lobbied against.

“We just asked to listen to us, just to listen to the alternative version,” Veselnitskaya said in the interview, seated in a futuristic-looking wingback chair set against a light purple background. She attacked the sanctions measure’s proponents and told Rohrabacher that American lawmakers had been duped.

“‘Do not let yourself be used by scammers,’” she recalled saying.

More: http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/10/03/gop-congressman-met-in-moscow-with-kremlin-linked-lawyer-at-center-of-russia-investigation/amp/

[spanone]

1. he would be a 'go to' man....for sure.

[Cosmocat]

3. I am sure he included this meeting in his paperwork he had to file

as a congressman ...

REALLY safe money that if, god willing, Mueller drops the hammer on people, this will be one of congressman who gets nailed.

[Eliot Rosewater]

2. If this was a democrat, a cave at the north pole would not be a safe place

to hide.

Deplorables would find them there.

[get the red out]

5. Exactly!

It is sickening what Rs will tolerate out of their own.

[Wellstone ruled]

4. Appears this Guy has

been going to Russia for quite some time. For years many have thought this Guy was dirty.

[Sneederbunk]

6. Most certainly Mueller has a thick file on this guy.

[malaise]

7. I post this every chance I getHouse majority leader to colleagues in 2016: I think Putin

pays’ Trump
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/house-majority-leader-to-colleagues-in-2016-i-think-putin-pays-trump/2017/05/17/515f6f8a-3aff-11e7-8854-21f359183e8c_story.html?utm_term=.6584a3ab3846
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“There’s two people I think Putin pays: Rohrabacher and Trump,” McCarthy (R-Calif.) said, according to a recording of the June 15, 2016, exchange, which was listened to and verified by The Washington Post. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher is a Californian Republican known in Congress as a fervent defender of Putin and Russia.

House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) immediately interjected, stopping the conversation from further exploring McCarthy’s assertion, and swore the Republicans present to secrecy.

[MelissaB]

8. Thank you for the reminder,

and please keep posting it.

[Gothmog]

9. Putin's congressman met with Putin's attorney

[Madam45for2923]

10. GOP Congressman Met in Moscow With Kremlin-Linked Lawyer at Center of Russia Investigation

GOP Congressman Met in Moscow With Kremlin-Linked Lawyer at Center of Russia Investigation

http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/10/03/gop-congressman-met-in-moscow-with-kremlin-linked-lawyer-at-center-of-russia-investigation/