There's talk going around Resistance circles that when seven U.S. lawmakers, all Republicans, met with top Russian officials in Moscow over the Fourth of July recess, they didn't even bring up “In a normal year, a U.S. Senator lying about where he was on the 4th of July (he was in Moscow) would be a major scandal,” producer Ben Wexler tweeted. “Senator Daines sent out a 4th of July tweet implying he was at the Capitol the same day he was in Russia,” Don Moynihan, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said in a tweet. Republican senators didn’t actually spend all of July 4th in Moscow—they split their time between the Russian headquarters and the US sales office. No Democrats were included on this trip. Republican lawmakers who went to Russia seeking a thaw in relations received an icy reception from Democrats and Kremlin watchers for spending the Fourth of July in a country that interfered in One of the Republican senators back from a trip to Moscow is suggesting that Congress went too far in punishing Russia for meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. “I’ve been pretty It's hard not to wonder what they were thinking. Eight Republican members of Congress -- seven senators and one House member -- traveled to Moscow ahead of the July 4th holiday, sounding a For the Wisconsin Republican, it meant, specifically, the freedom to spend July 4 in Moscow with seven other Republican lawmakers posing for propaganda photos with Russian officials. A group of GOP lawmakers spent July 4 in Moscow after several days of meetings with Russian officials, according to NPR. The group, which included seven Republican senators and one House member, Seven Republican senators and one GOP congresswoman have been in Russia, meeting with Russian officials, since June 30. On Tuesday, they sat down with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Moscow. IN 2018, EIGHT REPUBLICAN LAWMAKERS celebrated the Fourth of July in Moscow, Russia: Senator Richard C. Shelby of Alabama, who led the delegation, along with Senators Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, John Neely Kennedy of Louisiana, Steve Daines of Montana, North Dakota’s John Hoeven, Jerry Moran of Kansas, South Dakota’s John Thune, and Rep. Kay Granger of the 12th District of Texas. The A key Republican came back from the Kremlin seemingly shrugging off Russian aggression. His colleagues are confused as hell by his talk. Inside a controversial mission to Moscow. While the Republicans were toasting autocrats and jabberwocks in Russia, on the Fourth of July, the Optics Police were very busy checking out how liberals on Martha’s Vineyard for refusing to According to his statements, the meetings focused primarily on claims of election meddling in 2016, claims which the Russians refuted by pointing to American expenditure on efforts to support democracy in Russia — election meddling by the US as they see it. In 2018, Republican Sen. Ron Johnson visited Moscow, Russia with a group of seven other members of Congress on the Fourth of July. During the visit, the group warned Russia to not interfere with the U.S. 2018 midterm elections. Eight GOP lawmakers spend America’s Independence Day in Moscow. Senators Richard Shelby, Steve Daines, John Hoeven, Ron Johnson, John Kennedy, Jerry Moran, John Thune, and Rep. Kay Granger tell U.S. media that their trip is to be tough on Russia in regards to election meddling. In 2018, a group of Republican legislators made a visit to Russia that coincided with the Fourth of July. However, to imply this action was unpatriotic is a misrepresentation of the facts. The group was on a diplomatic mission to warn Russia against meddling in the 2018 midterm election. After 7 GOP Traitors spent their July 4th holiday playing footsies with Kremlin officials in Russia to suck up to Putin, GOPer Ron Johnson is already basically suggesting lifting US sanctions against Russia for their invasion of Crimea. Seven senators — John Kennedy (R-LA), Richard Shelby (R-AL), Steve Daines (R-MT), John Hoeven (R-ND), John Thune (R-SD), Jerry Moran (R-KS), and Ron Johnson (R-WI) — and one House member, Kay Granger (R-TX), are all in Moscow over the Fourth of July holiday this week for talks with Russian lawmakers and officials, according to reporting A group of Republican senators visited Moscow to deliver a warning to Russian President Vladimir Putin not to meddle in midterm elections. NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks to Sen. Jerry Moran 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
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