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

[DonViejo]

Source: Foreign Policy Magazine



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

BY ELIAS GROLL OCTOBER 3, 2017 ELIAS.GROLL@ELIASGROLL

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.

Kenneth Grubbs, a spokesman for Rohrabacher, confirmed that the meeting took place but that the congressman “was not focused on her identity.” Grubbs described Veselnitskaya as “among many people” Rohrabacher encountered during a congressional delegation he led to Moscow.



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

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. 50 million Americans could care less.

PUtin, uh I mean trump will pardon him but only AFTER he signs bill that will make your wife, my wife, your daughter a criminal if they have an abortion.

[Brother Buzz]

2. Midterms, baby!

Back in July, nonpartisan analysts say the race for Dana Rohrabacher's House seat representing Orange County is a toss-up.

http://www.latimes.com/politics/essential/la-pol-ca-essential-politics-updates-election-prognosticator-now-considers-1501171820-htmlstory.html

[world wide wally]

11. There must be a lot of Russians in that district

[Brother Buzz]

12. Does Moldova count?

Because they got a wacko dentist, lawyer, former real estate agent, black belt it something existing in that bizarre district.

[genxlib]

3. I really hate

the saying "where there is smoke there is fire". It is ripe for innuendo, assumption and misleading accusations.

But damn this Russian thing is smoking like a Kuwaiti oil well after the mother of all retreats.

[BigmanPigman]

6. Didn't he also visit Assange recently and wants 45 to help

release him?

This guy is strange...wants to legalize pot, is super Christian and praises Putin.

I hope CA dumps Hunter, Issa, and him.

[PearliePoo2]

4. This scumbag is as dirty as can be.

PLEASE, California, rid this traitorous pos from the House!

[turbinetree]

5. OK California its time to "RECALL" this Traitor

it's that simple, a liar and enabler of BS and treason is still treason................

[Madam45for2923]

7. 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/

[Bernardo de La Paz]

8. But, but, but! ... think of the children! ... :eyes: ... . . nt

[WhiteTara]

9. Kevin McCarthy said Putin was paying Rohrabacher

along with Trump. So maybe they don't lie in private.

[MrsCoffee]

10. And Ryan is on tape telling others to shut up about Rohrabacher and Dump being on Putin's payroll.

They all need to be locked up.

[dixiegrrrrl]

13. Didn't the Trump Tower meeting also use the Magnitsky Act as an excuse?

I seem to remember it was one of Don Jr or Eric or who the hell it was, saying so.