Yes.
You're FOS..............as usual.
July 5 2018
This is not The Onion: Eight members of Congress, all Republicans, spent America's Independence Day in Russia.
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.
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National Rifle Association has accepted contributions from at least 23 Russia-linked donors since 2015, the gun rights group revealed in a letter addressed to Congress.
A new article which provides detail on how Mariia Butina gained influence in the Republican party and the NRA. At the behest of her handler, Butina offered her body as payment for access to republican power circles:
Erickson and Butina met when she and her handler, Alexander Torshin, hosted an NRA conference in Moscow in 2013. Torshin met with Donald Trump Junior at an NRA convention in Kentucky in 2016. In another filing, Erickson is said to have bragged that he’d been involved in obtaining a private line of communication between the Kremlin and Republicans through the NRA.
Rusal, the aluminum company partially owned by Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska, announced plans to invest around $200 million to build a new aluminum plant in Kentucky just months after the Trump administration removed it from the U.S. sanctions list.
The new aluminum plant, slated to be built in the home state of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, will be the biggest new aluminum plant constructed in the U.S. in decades. Rusal will have a 40 percent stake in the facility.