The million dollar question. What was a Russian Ambassador doing @ the Republican Convention?

[sarcasmo]

The whole thing has stunk of horseshit since the DNC hack.

[Sherman A1]

1. A very valid question

And one deserving an answer.

[eShirl]

2. Writing the Republican Platform. n/t

[lagomorph777]

14. Bingo

http://www.npr.org/2016/08/06/488876597/how-the-trump-campaign-weakened-the-republican-platform-on-aid-to-ukraine

[malthaussen]

3. Only a million dollars?

Piker.

-- Mal

[SticksnStones]

4. Attending a Heritage Foundation event with 49 other ambassadors...

IOW, Hiding in plain sight...

You could possibly give him a pass on that meeting but why did JBeau follow up with a September call to the Russian ambassador? What was THAT all about?

My guess, confirming the receipt of funds ~

[elehhhhna]

10. Well how convenient is that?

[TexasProgresive]

5. Spreading his caviar where it will do the most good.

[Else You Are Mad]

6. You must mean the $500 Billion oil deal question.

It is obvious that Russia really wants the sanctions lifted so that the Exxon $500 billion deal can go further.

[sarcasmo]

9. It's always about the oil money.

[cilla4progress]

7. Making

his presence known.

[KeepItReal]

8. Thanking the Trump team for a job well done for Mother Russia:

From "Trump campaign guts GOP’s anti-Russia stance on Ukraine"

The Trump campaign worked behind the scenes last week to make sure the new Republican platform won’t call for giving weapons to Ukraine to fight Russian and rebel forces, contradicting the view of almost all Republican foreign policy leaders in Washington.

...

Still, Republican delegates at last week’s national security committee platform meeting in Cleveland were surprised when the Trump campaign orchestrated a set of events to make sure that the GOP would not pledge to give Ukraine the weapons it has been asking for from the United States.

Inside the meeting, Diana Denman, a platform committee member from Texas who was a Ted Cruz supporter, proposed a platform amendment that would call for maintaining or increasing sanctions against Russia, increasing aid for Ukraine and “providing lethal defensive weapons” to the Ukrainian military.

...

Trump staffers in the room, who are not delegates but are there to oversee the process, intervened. By working with pro-Trump delegates, they were able to get the issue tabled while they devised a method to roll back the language.

On the sideline, Denman tried to persuade the Trump staffers not to change the language, but failed. “I was troubled when they put aside my amendment and then watered it down,” Denman told me. “I said, ‘What is your problem with a country that wants to remain free?’ It seems like a simple thing.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/trump-campaign-guts-gops-anti-russia-stance-on-ukraine/2016/07/18/98adb3b0-4cf3-11e6-a7d8-13d06b37f256_story.html?utm_term=.72031e4fc2c2

[NewRedDawn]

13. Then later on

got with the program like her boss Cruz & pushed for Putins Puppet/ Right Ms. Denman...

[elehhhhna]

11. Receiving personal thanks. Don't we all know that by now?

[randome]

12. The dishes?

[hr][font color="blue"][center]A ton of bricks, a ton of feathers, it's still gonna hurt.[/center][/font][hr]

[radical noodle]

15. I asked the same question several hours ago

in another thread. Someone said the Heritage Foundation invited a bunch of ambassadors for a get together. I then asked if the Heritage Foundation always got cozy with our adversaries. Makes little sense to me.

[Tanuki]

16. I wonder who else the Ambassador met with (besides Sessions and his fellow

ambassadors) while he was there?

[world wide wally]

17. Were there any Russian Ambassadors at the Dem Convention?

I didn't think so for some odd reason

[BumRushDaShow]

18. Have to ask this guy

their former colleague.

And lookie here -

Heritage President Jim DeMint Meets With Trump in DC
Former senator among handful of influential Republicans at Monday afternoon meeting

BY: Lachlan Markay
March 21, 2016 1:45 pm

The leader of Washington’s most influential conservative think tank met with Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump on Monday, sources confirmed.

Heritage Foundation president Jim DeMint was one of a handful of attendees at a Monday afternoon meeting between Trump, a number of members of Congress, and other influential beltway Republicans.

<...>

DeMint, a former U.S. senator from South Carolina, was joined at the meeting by Sen. Jeff Sessions (R., Ala.), former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, and GOP Reps. Duncan Hunter (Calif.), Scott Desjarlais (Tenn.), and Tom Reed (N.Y.).

Heritage’s 501(c)(4) “Action” arm has reportedly expressed the desire to work with Trump to advance its policy goals if he wins the Republican nomination and November’s general election.

http://freebeacon.com/politics/heritage-president-jim-demint-meets-with-trump-in-d-c/

[Achilleaze]

19. Russia's Krypto-Kabal of Kronies in the republican party

[BumRushDaShow]

20. HUGE HUGE web of deceit

Bigly.

[font size="1"]("O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!")[/font]