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Tanuki

(14,918 posts)
Tue Aug 29, 2017, 07:10 PM Aug 2017

W TF? Rohrabacher to meet with 45 to hand over Assange info

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2017/08/29/politics/kfile-rohrabacher-rendezvous/index.html

"Republican Rep. Dana Rohrabacher said Monday that a "rendezvous" is being set up between him and President Donald Trump to relay information he received from WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange about the hack of the Democratic National Committee last year.

Rohrabacher, who is considered to be among the most pro-Russia members in Congress, met with Assange earlier this month and claims Assange told him that Russia was not involved in the hacking. Rohrabacher said after the meeting that he wanted to brief Trump on what Assange told him. Appearing on the Sean Hannity radio show Monday afternoon, the California congressman said that meeting was in the process of being set up.

"It is my understanding from other parties who are trying to arrange a rendezvous with myself and the President, it is being arranged for me to give him the firsthand information from (Assange)," Rohrabacher said.
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"I'm trying to get this out in the public now where we can get this Julian Assange thing straightened out so that people know that it wasn't the Russians that hacked into the system, and that's not how this information was released," he said.

The White House did not return a request for comment on Rohrabacher's comments. Rohrabacher hung up on a CNN reporter who inquired about his comments."






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malaise

(268,998 posts)
1. Pssssssssssssssst! Ahem! In Case you don't know
Tue Aug 29, 2017, 07:13 PM
Aug 2017
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/house-majority-leader-to-colleagues-in-2016-i-think-putin-pays-trump/2017/05/17/515f6f8a-3aff-11e7-8854-21f359183e8c_story.html?utm_term=.15d6b89e467a
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A month before Donald Trump clinched the Republican nomination, one of his closest allies in Congress — House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy — made a politically explosive assertion in a private conversation on Capitol Hill with his fellow GOP leaders: that Trump could be the beneficiary of payments from Russian President Vladimir Putin.

“There’s two people I think Putin pays: Rohrabacher and Trump,” McCarthy (R-Calif.) said, according to a recording of the June 15, 2016, exchange, which was listened to and verified by The Washington Post. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher is a Californian Republican known in Congress as a fervent defender of Putin and Russia.

House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) immediately interjected, stopping the conversation from further exploring McCarthy’s assertion, and swore the Republicans present to secrecy.

LonePirate

(13,424 posts)
5. The only person Rohrabacher needs to talk to is a bail bondsman.
Tue Aug 29, 2017, 07:33 PM
Aug 2017

His ass needs to be in jail immediately.

Johonny

(20,851 posts)
8. Given Assange has said this publically already, why the extra effort needed
Tue Aug 29, 2017, 08:20 PM
Aug 2017

No one believes Assange is an honest broker, that's why he's wanted by the law in multiple places. He's a suspected criminal. We generally don't trust those types by their word.

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