Exclusive: Russian ambassador pleads for help in securing Washington meetings

[brooklynite]

Source: Politico

Congressional leaders won’t meet with him. Neither will the vice president or the White House chief of staff.

And the Russian ambassador says he is at his wit’s end.

In a letter to Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) earlier this month, Anatoly Antonov asked for help in obtaining meetings with a slew of U.S. lawmakers and officials. The March 9 letter was written two days after a POLITICO story detailed some of Antonov’s travails in securing meetings in Washington.

“I would be very grateful for your advice on how to develop contacts with members of U.S. Congress, departments and agencies, as well as for your possible assistance in setting up such meetings,” Antonov wrote in the letter, obtained by POLITICO.

Read more: https://www.politico.com/story/2018/03/29/anatoly-antonov-russian-ambassador-meetings-denied-492262

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How puzzling; I was reliably informed that there was NO COLLUSION, so there would be no reason not to meet...right?

[kairos12]

1. Doesn't he have a passkey for the White House?

[Maven]

2. Why don't they just use Jared's back channel?

Pick up the "red phone" and dial direct.

[Lindsay]

3. I guess he didn't get the word

that nobody in the GOP has a clue about how government is supposed to work.

[BumRushDaShow]

4. They don't even hide it anymore.

Like a damn infection.

[BigmanPigman]

5. The GOP is afraid of him ...

maybe they can meet secretly at a tRump hotel under an assumed name and with a disguise. I hope they bring a taster with them (polonium and caviar).

[Nitram]

6. The GOP is not afraid of the ambassador. They are afraid of Mueller.

The optics right now are just too dangerous.

[BigmanPigman]

7. Yeah, you're right!