Ex-Hill Staffer Linked to Veselnitskaya Dies Suddenly After Fall Near His Home

[Mrs. Overall]

Source: The Daily Beast

The longtime aide to “Putin’s Congressman” Dana Rohrabacher died suddenly from a head injury over the weekend.

Paul Behrends was found by emergency responders close to his home on Friday night with severe head trauma. He was taken to a local hospital where surgeons fought to save him, but he passed away on Saturday, according to a spokesman for Rohrabacher.

Behrends was a controversial figure on Capitol Hill who lost his job as staff director for the House Foreign Affairs subcommittee after The Daily Beast reported on his links to Trump Tower lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya’s operation in the U.S.

Rohrabacher’s former congressional spokesman Ken Grubbs told The Daily Beast that Behrends died at the hospital. “I did actually call Dana and he confirmed it,” he said. “What I’ve heard is that he slipped… hit his head, and died in surgery.” Grubbs said there was no reason to think anything suspicious had happened to Behrends or that there was any link to his associations with Russia. “No, no, not at all,” he said.

Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/paul-behrends-ex-staffer-to-dana-rohrabacher-who-was-linked-to-veselnitskaya-dies-suddenly-after-a-fall

[C_U_L8R]

1. "No, no, not at all"

Uh huh.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

8. Dinsdale "was hard man. Vicious but fair"

Interviewer: What had you done?

Stig: Er... well he didn't tell me that, but he gave me his word that it was the case, and that's good enough for me with old Dinsy. I mean, he didn't *want* to nail my head to the floor. I had to insist. He wanted to let me off. He'd do anything for you, Dinsdale would.

Interviewer: And you don't bear him a grudge?

Stig: A grudge! Old Dinsy. He was a real darling.

Interviewer: I understand he also nailed your wife's head to a coffee table. Isn't that true Mrs O' Tracy?

Mrs O' Tracy: No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

Stig: Well he did do that, yeah. He was a hard man. Vicious but fair

[farmbo]

21. OK... Thanks. I needed some Python tonight.

EOM

[gay texan]

53. "Whatsmore he knew how to treat a female impersonator right!" N/t

[usajumpedtheshark]

57. So far no reports of a giant hedgehog looking for Dinsdale have surfaced

[bluecollar2]

59. Chains me to the back of the tank

And takes me for a scrape round to Dinsdale's place....

[AZ8theist]

18. Coincidentally, his head injuries oddly resemble the shape of a sledge hammer.

[lastlib]

23. "No, no. No. Nothing suspicious here.".... Hmmmm--sounds suspicious to me.....

[dalton99a]

2. He just wanted to go to his dacha in heaven

[RockRaven]

3. Was the fall witnessed (and by who) or on video?

Wasn't there a Russian who died from a "fall" found dead in his locked hotel room in DC around 2016/2017?

There are falls and there are "falls" ....

[dawg day]

4. You mean the one who fell out his window...

or the one who supposedly beat himself to death?

[RockRaven]

7. The beat himself to death one.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who remembers that.

[dawg day]

16. They said he was really drunk.

Yeah, right, so drunk he hit himself on his head over and over.

[AZ8theist]

20. I think you mean the guy who committed suicide...

With 2 gunshots to the head...

[dflprincess]

33. Haven't there been several

fall out windows?

[LisaL]

11. Nobody saw him fall per the article.

Apparently this guy was walking at 10 pm when he supposedly fell. Was it normal for him to walk alone that late?

[Volaris]

26. As I said in another thread, I'm surprised he didnt shoot himself twice in the head on the way down.

[NCjack]

5. Maybe Putin is cleaning up ahead of Biden Admin's

AG investigations.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

6. Or sending a message to Rohrabacher himself. . . . nt

[Blue Owl]

9. Feels a little mobby

[Volaris]

27. Ya just a little bit....

[LisaL]

12. I dunno.

Most people who fall during their walk don't sustain severe head trauma.
Pretty fishy as far as I am concerned.

[TomDaisy]

13. certainly fits the Putin MO

[LudwigPastorius]

14. _

[2naSalit]

15. "What I've heard is that he slipped... hit his head, and died in surgery."

Yeah, sure.

[Midnight Writer]

34. "What I've heard" is the equivalent of "People are saying".

[Chicago1980]

17. Hmmm......

Will Fox News cover this relentlessly and bother the family like they did Seth Rich's?

Betting not...

[CaptainTruth]

19. And why does Trump do Putin's bidding?

[Pepsidog]

22. I hate when I slip, hit my head and die in surgery.

[monkeyman1]

24. ice

me do think trump tribe should watch out for slippery surface 's !!!

[Botany]

25. Slipped or was Vlad doing some "house cleaning?"

from the link

Behrends then worked alongside Veselnitskaya and Rinat Akhmetshin—a Soviet army veteran who accompanied Veselnitskaya to the notorious Trump Tower meeting—to help deliver some of the suggestions made in Moscow. Veselnitskaya was later indicted by the U.S. for allegedly colluding with Russian officials to obstruct justice in an American court case.

They worked together to organize a subcommittee hearing that would call the director of the propaganda movie as well as other witnesses who were sympathetic to President Putin. The hearing, which was set to re-examine U.S. sanctions against Russia, was eventually quashed and replaced by a full committee hearing on Russia. Rohrabacher still succeeded in approvingly comparing President Trump to Putin and submitting testimony that claimed Russia was not behind the assassination of Alexander Litvinenko, a former FSB agent who was poisoned with a radioactive isotope in London.

After the hearing, Behrends, Rohrabacher, Akhmetshin, and Veselnitskaya had dinner at the Capitol Hill Club, a private members’ club frequented by Republicans.

It was the next day that Kevin McCarthy, who was House majority leader at the time, was recorded at a GOP meeting saying: “There’s two people I think Putin pays: Rohrabacher and Trump.” When colleagues laughed, he was heard on tape saying: “Swear to God.”

[onetexan]

39. Whoops. Michael Flynn & Ron Johnson better watch their backs. Incidentally Rohrabacher was just now

mentioned on MSNBC but no mention of his death. I guess MoJo hasn't yet heard

[Botany]

44. This story will get almost no play in our "liberal media."

And it will disappear with in 24 hours. I guarantee it.

One of the reasons why Trump and the GOP were and still fighting so hard to keep
Trump and the GOP in power is that huge parts of the GOP have been corrupted
by Vlad/Russia. (at least that is what I think)

We need to see the Mueller report.

[onetexan]

47. Agree. One has to wonder about the magnitude of corruption

[Botany]

48. The Russians pumped millions into the GOP in 2016 through the NRA

And don't forget the GOP's "Moscow Eight."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/eight-republicans-spent-july-4-in-russia-where-are-the-fireworks/2018/07/06/beae30be-812e-11e8-b658-4f4d2a1aeef1_story.html

[onetexan]

51. oh the investigation's gotta start there - at that July 4. My Goodness, on 7/4 of all days to be

acting as traitors to our country. The gall of these people!

[niyad]

28. This piece reads like it should be from The Onion. This guy was dirty, just like his buddy dana.

And seeing that kevin KNEW that both dana and trump are dirty, and keeps kissing the damned, murdering, orange traitor's ass makes me sick. Wonder what vlad has on him.

[BlueIdaho]

29. Putin is cleaning up loose ends.

Trump better watch his back.

[Hekate]

30. Did he fall out a 2nd story window at high speed?

[Ford_Prefect]

31. Isn't it always strange how key witnesses die strange deaths in timely circumstances???

And anyone can see the link to Putin.

[58Sunliner]

32. Makes me wonder if anyone else will have a fall, get run over, get deathly ill.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

35. Open window or polonium tea

Putins two favorite methods.

[NBachers]

36. Hey Dana, who's the next to fall?

[Vinca]

38. I was just thinking this morning that Dear Leader is going to have to pony up a big

pile of cash for Pootie now that he can't do big favors for him. If he can't come up with the loot he'd be smart to stay away from high places.

[cstanleytech]

43. I suspect he will take as much classified information as he can grab

to both pay off his debt and get sanctuary to avoid the varies state criminal charges which a federal pardon will not prevent
Edit: Then again that could explain how the Russians pulled off that recent security breach if he gave them enough information to do it.

[cynical_idealist]

50. The value of trump's damage to the USA and world

should be enough to clear his russion debts,
and get a nice estate in Siberia.

[Karma13612]

37. Check out the website for

R&B strategies mentioned in the article.

[link:https://www.rbstrategic.com|

Paul and Dana didn’t waste money on website design. And you pretty much had to know who they were because the site doesn’t even mention their names!!! Unless the site was scrubbed since the accident??

Fascinating.

[cannabis_flower]

40. It would have sounded less suspicious if

they had added he was 88 years old. Lots of people that age die of falls.

[Yeehah]

41. Maybe there were no tall buildings nearby for him to fall out of?

So the ol' "slip and fall" causing massive cranial damage was Plan B.

[Botany]

45. He "slipped" on all that ice was in D.C. @ 40 F.

I checked the weather when I read the story.

[cstanleytech]

42. Another Russian government defenestration to silence someone?

[Blues Heron]

46. Where was this?

No mention of location, hospital, neighborhood, etc.

[McCamy Taylor]

49. KGB taking out the trash

[orangecrush]

52. Uh-huh

[EX500rider]

54. Might be funny business ...but then it does happen:

Unintentional fall deaths per year:
Number of deaths: 37,455

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/accidental-injury.htm

[traladeda]

55. That seems to happen an awful lot to people connected to Russia

doctors, aides, agents, business people...on and on and on...

[Paladin]

56. If Rohrabacher was in the mix, it was crooked. Without a doubt. (nt)

[Hugin]

58. "Died in surgery."

There's one I hadn't heard in awhile. The kneecrackers must be slacking off.