Bolton, Pompeo, and Republican Senators are going to Russia over July 4th.

[dixiegrrrrl]

You know, our Independence Day.

[Pachamama]

1. How Un-American of them....

Wow....

[exboyfil]

2. Not Democratic Senator

Really.

[Buns_of_Fire]

3. Time for their performance review, I suppose. nt

[Cha]

4. Good! Get them the Fuck outta our

country.. it's our Independence Day.. not theirs.

They lost that right.. We're the Awesome Patriots

[trueblue2007]

5. MAYBE THEIR PLANE will take a dive into the Bermuda Triangle.

[catbyte]

6. Figures. That's where their true allegiance lies.

I'll bet Putin has dirt on every last one of them.
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How Putin's oligarchs funneled millions into GOP campaigns

Ruth May, Contributor


Editor's note May 8, 2018: This column originally published December 15, 2017. New allegations about $500k in payments from a Russian oligarch made to Trump attorney Michael Cohen have placed it back in the news.

As Special Counsel Robert Mueller's team probes deeper into potential collusion between Trump officials and representatives of the Russian government, investigators are taking a closer look at political contributions made by U.S. citizens with close ties to Russia.

Buried in the campaign finance reports available to the public are some troubling connections between a group of wealthy donors with ties to Russia and their political contributions to President Donald Trump and a number of top Republican leaders. And thanks to changes in campaign finance laws, the political contributions are legal. We have allowed our campaign finance laws to become a strategic threat to our country.

An example is Len Blavatnik, a dual U.S.-U.K. citizen and one of the largest donors to GOP political action committees in the 2015-16 election cycle. Blavatnik's family emigrated to the U.S. in the late '70s from the U.S.S.R. and he returned to Russia when the Soviet Union began to collapse in the late '80s.

Data from the Federal Election Commission show that Blavatnik's campaign contributions dating back to 2009-10 were fairly balanced across party lines and relatively modest for a billionaire. During that season he contributed $53,400. His contributions increased to $135,552 in 2011-12 and to $273,600 in 2013-14, still bipartisan.

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https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2018/05/08/putins-proxies-helped-funnel-millions-gop-campaigns

[OnDoutside]

7. Lads, keep your underwear on ! Seriously, this is as provocative as it gets, unless they are going

to seek asylum ?

[JHB]

8. When the boss says "come to my office", you come to his office.

[uponit7771]

9. +1

[MagickMuffin]

10. Who are the Senators?

Link?

[dixiegrrrrl]

11. Not much info, I had to Google.

(

CNN)A group of Republican US senators will head to Russia next week, two members in the congressional delegation confirmed to CNN on Thursday.
Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy and Alabama Sen. Richard Shelby told CNN that they will travel as part of a congressional delegation trip to Russia next week at the invitation of United States Ambassador to Russia, Jon Huntsman.
Kennedy told CNN that in addition to him and Shelby, Republican Sen. Steve Daines of Montana and Republican Sen. John Hoeven of North Dakota were part of the confirmed group.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/21/politics/senators-russia-congressional-delegation/index.html

[oasis]

12. Get back to where you once belonged, and to where you're owned.