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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRemember Their Names - July 4, 2018: Seven GOP lawmakers travel to Russia
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/seven-gop-lawmakers-make-misguided-trip-russia-msna1119676Sen. Richard C. Shelby (R-Ala), Sen. Steve Daines (R-Mont.), Sen. John Hoeven (R-N.D.), Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.), Sen. Jerry Moran (R-Kan.), Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.), and Rep. Kay Granger (R-Texas).
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/seven-gop-lawmakers-make-misguided-trip-russia-msna1119676
There was no reason for the delegation to be partisan, but it was. There was no reason for these Republicans to give the Kremlin a pass on its misdeeds, but they did. There was no reason for the GOP lawmakers to downplay the significance of election meddling and the fate of Crimea in their discussions, but based on multiple accounts, they did that, too*.
Republican members of Congress sounded a newly conciliatory tone in meetings with Russian lawmakers and officials here on Tuesday in a rare visit to Moscow and a preview of the looming summit between President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin.Sen. Richard C. Shelby (R-Ala.) told Russia's foreign minister that while Russia and the United States were competitors, "we don't necessarily need to be adversaries." ... "I'm not here today to accuse Russia of this or that or so forth," Shelby told Duma speaker Vyacheslav Volodin.
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Remember Their Names - July 4, 2018: Seven GOP lawmakers travel to Russia (Original Post)
Joinfortmill
Jan 2022
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MomInTheCrowd
(318 posts)1. Compromat likely gathered on every one of them during this trip.
MerryBlooms
(11,885 posts)2. Rec & Kick
SWBTATTReg
(23,970 posts)3. Thanks for the names, I always wanted their names for my records, so I can make sure that I knock
them every chance I get, make sure that everyone knows of their traitorous actions.
crickets
(26,146 posts)4. K&R for visibility.