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By Karoun Demirjian
July 5 at 10:54 PM
Republican lawmakers who went to Russia seeking a thaw in relations received an icy reception from Democrats and Kremlin watchers for spending the Fourth of July in a country that interfered in the U.S. presidential election and continues to deny it.
Cannot believe GOP, once the party that stood strong against Soviets & only a decade ago sought to democratize the Middle East, is now surrendering so foolishly to [Russian President Vladimir] Putin and the Kremlins kleptocracy only two years after Russia interfered in U.S. election, tweeted Clint Watts, an information warfare specialist at the Foreign Policy Research Institute and frequent featured expert before congressional panels examining Russian influence operations.
Russians wooing with a shopworn song repugnant as nails on a blackboard, Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) wrote in a Twitter post in response to the delegations trip. They are enemies and adversaries, attacking us.
Sen. Richard C. Shelby (R-Ala.) led the eight-member delegation on a multiday tour of St. Petersburg and Moscow, a trip that included meetings with Russias foreign minister and parliamentarians. It did not include a session that senators had been hoping for: a meeting with Putin, whom President Trump is scheduled to meet at a summit this month.
Joining Shelby were Sens. Steve Daines (R-Mont.), John Hoeven (R-N.D.), Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), John Kennedy (R-La.), Jerry Moran (R-Kan.), John Thune (R-S.D.) and Rep. Kay Granger (R-Tex.).
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duforsure
(11,885 posts)This PR event they made for putin and trump is in reality telling the American people F. U. , we sold you out to putin , what are you going to do about it. They're acting openly complicit now with what putin did to the last election, and bought them off to protect trump and him with.
Raster
(20,998 posts)...it would appear that this group of American Senators just met with theirs... and on the American public's dime.
GeorgeGist
(25,311 posts)Putin is collecting on these treasonous fools.
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)still corrupt, still socialist, still totalitarian.
I have come to suspect that the right in this country weren't rabid anti-communists are much as they were jealous.