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[Trojita]

http://www.thedailybeast.com/gop-lawmaker-got-direction-from-moscow-took-it-back-to-dc

Members of the team of Russians who secured a June 2016 Trump Tower meeting with Donald Trump Jr. and Jared Kushner also attempted to stage a show trial of anti-Putin campaigner Bill Browder on Capitol Hill.

The trial, which would have come in the form of a congressional hearing, was scheduled for mid-June 2016 by Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA), a long-standing Russia ally who chairs the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Europe. During the hearing, Rohrabacher had planned to confront Browder with a feature-length pro-Kremlin propaganda movie that viciously attacks him—as well as at least two witnesses linked to the Russian authorities, including lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya.

The Daily Beast reviewed a copy of a document that was passed to Rohrabacher in Moscow in April 2016. The document, marked “confidential,” was given to Rohrabacher and Behrends. It lays out an alternate reality in which the U.S.—and the rest of the world—has been duped by a fake $230 million scandal that resulted in sanctions being imposed on 44 Russians linked to murder, corruption, or cover-ups.

The document, which was handed over by an official from the Prosecutor General’s office to Rohrabacher along with means of viewing the Russian propaganda movie, suggested that U.S. “political situation may change the current climate” and claimed that it was the ideal moment to foment a challenge to the Western narrative on Putin’s kleptocracy. A subcommittee hearing that would re-examine the sanctions placed on Russia, the paper claimed, would be appreciated in Moscow.
“Changing attitudes to the Magnitsky story in the Congress… could have a very favorable response from the Russian side,” the document said.
What the U.S. would get in exchange for holding a subcommittee hearing was not laid out in detail. But the document promised to help iron out “key controversial issues and disagreements with the United States.”

Too important to sit hidden in the other thread.

Wow

 

[OnPoint]

In Soviet Russia, Russia GOPs you.

 

[AuthenticM]

Rohrabacher is a traitor and should spend the rest of his life in jail.

 

[Azuran]

Who keeps ordering so many nothingburgers?

 

[HeartlessNobody213]

I read this on twitter but because of the source I didn't expect anything to come of it, at least not anytime soon.

 

[Anoregon]

Rohrabacher is a traitor and should spend the rest of his life in jail.

It's insane that he is still in office. He's literally an agent of a hostile foreign power.

 

[Stinkles]

Rohrabacher is a traitor to Earth and should spend the rest of his life in a Martian jail.

ftfy

 

[Chained Prometheus]

Okay, so I know that a lot of us here at NeoGAF have been figuring for awhile now that some GOP members of Congress were probably compromised by Russia, but just how deep does this rabbit hole go?

Chilling stuff to think about, definitely.

 

[Version 3.0]

What the...I don't even...

And meanwhile, the rest of the GOP knows full well that Rohrabacher is on Moscow's payroll, and all they do is tell secret jokes about it.

 

[theWB27]

Okay, so I know that a lot of us here at NeoGAF have been figuring for awhile now that some GOP members of Congress were probably compromised by Russia, but just how deep does this rabbit hole go?

Chilling stuff to think about, definitely.

The people who deny it had little leg to stand on. Some of them are trying too hard to deny anything is here and to actually investigate it.

 

[Horns]

How Republicans react will be very telling. Party first or people first or pretend it's the media's fault.

 

[Bleepey]

The Party of Reagan and the Red Scare. What do you expect when Reagan was talking about tearing down walls whilst The Mandarin Candidate talks about building walls

 

[NH Apache]

About as traitorous as it gets, holy fuck. Unamerican.

 

[Cyanity]

Realistically, can treason charges be brought up over this?

 

[sangreal]

This is the guy Paul Ryan and McCarthy got caught "jokingly" discussing how he and Trump are paid by Russia

 

[Mully]

Okay, so I know that a lot of us here at NeoGAF have been figuring for awhile now that some GOP members of Congress were probably compromised by Russia, but just how deep does this rabbit hole go?

Chilling stuff to think about, definitely.

And considering that Ryan and McCarthy knew about it, they are at the very least criminally negligent. I doubt they'll be prosecuted for it though.

 

[Aaronrules380]

How Republicans react will be very telling. Party first or people first or pretend it's the media's fault.

It'll be party first and you know it

 

[DerangedHermit]

Yeah, but what about those Martians? Are they really dead? Or did they just come to Earth?

 

[MetatronM]

This definitely falls under that very rare category of "actually treason."

 

[Evil Monkey DTT]

Fake news.... is literally the only defense anyone could use at this point which is why you keep hearing clinging to it.

 

[jvm]

The people who deny it had little leg to stand on. Some of them are trying too hard to deny anything is here and to actually investigate it.

What about that tape of Paul Ryan joking about Trump and Russia? What's the consensus on whether that was a joke or not?

 

[BoogieWoogie]

I've been saying it all along, Russia is seriously the "paradise" that the GOP wants the US to be. A country run by rich oligarchs where dissent is crushed and gay people and reporters are killed with reckless abandon.

 

[TetraGenesis]

Holy shit.

 

[Shaanyboi]

The GOP don't give a shit.

 

[Arkeband]

including lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya.

 

[linkboy]

I don't even know anymore.

This is whole mess is just ridiculous.

And of course, nothing will happen to this traitorous fuck.

 

[Funky Papa]

The absurd thing is that he's an actual OG Reaganite.

Think about that.

Then again, it's not like Reagan and 80's GOP were above dealing with enemy powers when it was in their benefit.

 

[PopeReal]

Money over country.

 

[StuKen]

Knew it would be Rohrabacher. Pleasantly surprised Veselnitskaya has popped up again.

 

[Greigor The Fellhand]

ftfy

or the lizard jail. also known as gitmo

 

[FlyinJ]

I've been saying it all along, Russia is seriously the "paradise" that the GOP wants the US to be. A country run by rich oligarchs where dissent is crushed and gay people and reporters are killed with reckless abandon.

This is what I think as well. Every single policy the GOP stands for points in this direction. Russia's current state is the endgame they've been dreaming of for half a century.

 

[Version 3.0]

What about that tape of Paul Ryan joking about Trump and Russia? What's the consensus on whether that was a joke or not?

Definitely a joke, but it's a "funny 'cause it's true" joke.

 

[Tawpgun]

Wonder what the ghost of Reagan thinks about all this

 

[Nazgul_Hunter]

After that propaganda film was denied from being shown in congress, the GOP lawmaker's office set up a screening and sent invites from the subcommittee's office.

”That invitation was not from our office. O'Neill was an unpaid intern on the committee staff. Paul denies asking her to send the invitations," said Ken Grubbs, Rohrabacher's press secretary, referring to the congressman's staff director, Paul Behrends.
O'Neill went on to secure a job on the Trump transition team and then in the State Department's Office of the Under Secretary for Civilian Security, Democracy, and Human Rights. She did not return a call for comment.

jesus christ where does this end?

 

[Tezzeractor]

This is really bizarre.

 

[ClosingADoor]

You guys need to purge the whole damn government in the US and do reelections for all positions when this is over. Damn.

 

[Funky Papa]

Wonder what the ghost of Reagan thinks about all this

 

[PopeReal]

You guys need to purge the whole damn government in the US and do reelections for all positions when this is over. Damn.

The problem is voters will put the same types right back in. Liberals are the enemy, not Russians.

 

[RustyNails]

Why did I know it was Rohrbacher before clicking.

 

[ShironRedshift]

Soon as I saw the thread title, knew it would be about Rohrabacher. And of course Paul Ryan and the GOP don't give a fuck about any of this and will just keep on trying to sweep it under the rug...

 

[Geist-]

The whole party needs to be locked up for treason.

 

[kris.]

Didn't Ryan say something about how McCarthy was also taking orders from Moscow or something, too? The whole Republican party needs to be purged.

 

[theWB27]

What about that tape of Paul Ryan joking about Trump and Russia? What's the consensus on whether that was a joke or not?

I didn't do a round up...but I'm sure you know where Gaf mostly swayed...but the second part of my comment was meant for the GOP.

 

[NoName999]

Who keeps ordering so many nothingburgers?

They gave me a nullheart attack!

 

[shiba5]

Thought to myself, "Watch it be Rohrabacher."

The GOP will completely ignore this unless it blows up, then they'll circle the wagons. Party over country every time.

 

[shiba5]

Didn't Ryan say something about how McCarthy was also taking orders from Moscow or something, too? The whole Republican party needs to be purged.

McCarthy was the one who made the "joke" about Rohrabacher and Trump being paid off.

 

[Ahasverus]

I hope the Democrats are taking notes, this is all elections ammo.

 

[Fenderputty]

What the...I don't even...

And meanwhile, the rest of the GOP knows full well that Rohrabacher is on Moscow's payroll, and all they do is tell secret jokes about it.

"secret" lol

 

[RustyNails]

I hope the Democrats are taking notes, this is all elections ammo.

No it wont. Its all fake news to the GOP. Dems shouldnt run on Russia story, but instead on how GOP tried to snatch their healthcare.

 

[obijkenobi]

More nothingburgers!

But seriously, this is only the stuff leaking to us.