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Dana Rohrabacher, anti-neocon GOP congressman, under consideration for SoS

Has been endorsed by Tulsi Gabbard http://dailycaller.com/2...
Aromatic Crackhouse
  12/04/16
He will be indicted by Mueller
flickering plaza
  11/10/17
Mark me, Trumpcucks.
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  12/03/17
marked
Bonkers laser beams
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He’s a Member of Congress. The Kremlin Likes Him So Much It ...
flickering plaza
  03/13/18
JFC this guy is worse than I thought WASHINGTON — For tw...
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Update?
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The Russia investigation has shown few signs of having an im...
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  03/13/18
CAPITOL ALERT Tied to Trump, these two California Republica...
flickering plaza
  03/14/18
How many years will he be in prison?
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Probably until he det. A lot of these older dudes who treas...
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flickering plaza
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Rohrabacher said he not heard from Mueller or his team at an...
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it's hard to push over a 400 pound man.
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Date: December 4th, 2016 6:20 PM
Author: Aromatic Crackhouse

Has been endorsed by Tulsi Gabbard

http://dailycaller.com/2016/12/04/heres-the-california-republican-rep-whos-reportedly-a-dark-horse-contender-for-secretary-of-state/

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3449088&forum_id=2#32055670)



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Date: November 10th, 2017 2:29 PM
Author: flickering plaza

He will be indicted by Mueller

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Date: December 3rd, 2017 11:07 PM
Author: flickering plaza

Mark me, Trumpcucks.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3449088&forum_id=2#34832769)



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Date: December 3rd, 2017 11:15 PM
Author: Bonkers laser beams

marked

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Date: March 13th, 2018 3:02 PM
Author: flickering plaza

He’s a Member of Congress. The Kremlin Likes Him So Much It Gave Him a Code Name.

By NICHOLAS FANDOS NOV. 21, 2017

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/21/us/politics/dana-rohrabacher-putin-trump-kremlin-under-fire.html

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3449088&forum_id=2#35596348)



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Date: March 13th, 2018 3:12 PM
Author: flickering plaza

JFC this guy is worse than I thought

WASHINGTON — For two decades, Representative Dana Rohrabacher has been of value to the Kremlin, so valuable in recent years that the F.B.I. warned him in 2012 that Russia regarded him as an intelligence source worthy of a Kremlin code name.

The following year, the California Republican became even more valuable, assuming the chairmanship of the Foreign Affairs subcommittee that oversees Russia policy. He sailed to re-election again and again, even as he developed ties to Vladimir V. Putin’s Russia.

Then came President Trump.

As revelations of Russia’s campaign to influence American politics consume Washington, Mr. Rohrabacher, 70, who had no known role in the Trump election campaign, has come under political and investigative scrutiny. The F.B.I. and the Senate Intelligence Committee are each seeking to interview him about an August meeting with Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, Mr. Rohrabacher said. The special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, is said to be interested in a meeting he had last year with Michael T. Flynn, Mr. Trump’s short-lived national security adviser.

At the same time, fellow Republicans — questioning his judgment and intentions — have moved to curtail his power as chairman of the Foreign Affairs subcommittee on Europe, Eurasia and Emerging Threats. And back home in Southern California, where Democrats and Republicans alike smell blood, the 15-term congressman is facing his toughest re-election contest in decades, with well-funded candidates from both parties lining up to unseat him.

“I feel like I’m in good shape politically,” he said breezily during an interview last week, a day before he voted against his party’s tax bill. “My constituents couldn’t care less about this. They are not concerned about Russia. They are concerned about the taxes on their home. They are concerned about illegal immigrants coming into their neighborhood and raping people.”

Nor is Mr. Rohrabacher, a self-proclaimed veteran of international intrigue, all that perturbed by the interest of federal and congressional investigators. He said he would talk to them when scheduling allows.

The story of Mr. Rohrabacher’s transformation from Cold Warrior to pro-Putinist is well worn. A vocal Young Republican in the 1960s, he latched onto Ronald Reagan, California’s Republican governor, and followed him to Washington and a speechwriting job in the White House. Then came the fall of the Soviet Union and a détente in relations with the former superpower. For Mr. Rohrabacher, who claims to have lost a drunken arm-wrestling match to Mr. Putin in the 1990s, the era of good feelings never really ended.

Mr. Rohrabacher has laughed off suggestions that he is a Russian asset, and said in an interview that he did not remember being briefed that the Russians viewed him as a source. The F.B.I. and the senior members of the House Intelligence Committee sat Mr. Rohrabacher down in the Capitol in 2012 to warn him that Russian spies were trying to recruit him, according to two former intelligence officials.

“I remember them telling me, ‘You have been targeted to be recruited as an agent,’” he said. “How stupid is that?”

And yet, as investigators in Washington scrutinize the Russian interference campaign, Mr. Rohrabacher, like an extra in a spy thriller, just keeps showing up — if not quite at the scene of the action, then just off camera.

In April 2016, he was in Moscow, accepting a copy of a “confidential” memo containing accusations against prominent Democratic donors that would, months later, reappear in Trump Tower when a Russian lawyer who had reported those allegations to the Russian government, Natalia V. Veselnitskaya, sat down with Donald Trump Jr. to deliver a similar document.

Last August he was in London on a quick diversion from an anniversary trip to the Iberian Peninsula to meet Mr. Assange at the fugitive’s sanctuary in the Ecuadorean Embassy. American intelligence agencies believe Mr. Assange acted as a conduit for Russian operatives seeking to release a trove of hacked Democratic emails. Mr. Assange denies the accusation, and Mr. Rohrabacher hoped to broker a meeting with Mr. Trump to allow him to make his case.

Then earlier this year, this time on Capitol Hill, Mr. Rohrabacher dined with Alexander Torshin, the deputy governor of the Russian central bank who has been linked both to Russia’s security services and organized crime. During Mr. Trump’s presidential campaign, Mr. Torshin tried to set up a “backdoor” meeting between Mr. Trump and Mr. Putin, according to an email that has been turned over to Senate investigators.

Mr. Rohrabacher asserted that none of the meetings were untoward or inappropriate, given his chairmanship. Ms. Veselnitskaya and her allies are fighting the Magnitsky Act, which imposed sanctions on Russian officials for human rights abuses, and they deserved a hearing, he said. Russia, he argued, could be a key ally to defeat Islamic terrorists in the Middle East, and under Mr. Putin, the Kremlin has undertaken key reforms back home.

“I want to treat Russia as if it is a nation state that deserves to be judged as all other nation states are judged,” he said.

Mr. Rohrabacher said his efforts to connect Mr. Assange with the president have been stonewalled by John F. Kelly, the White House chief of staff.

NBC News reported this month that Mr. Mueller’s investigators are looking at a 2016 meeting between Mr. Rohrabacher and Mr. Flynn, whose lobbying for foreign powers has come under scrutiny by the special counsel.

Mr. Rohrabacher acknowledged meeting Mr. Flynn twice, once to discuss computer chip technology and once to discuss a plan advanced by Mr. Flynn late last year to build a series of nuclear power plants across the Middle East. He said he did not remember discussing Russia.

“All I remember about that meeting is that they were promoting some kind of an idea about having Gulf State countries invest in building nuclear power plants of some kind, I think,” Mr. Rohrabacher said.

Mr. Rohrabacher may shrug off such scrutiny, but on the Foreign Affairs Committee, fellow Republicans have had enough. The committee’s chairman, Representative Ed Royce of California, pushed out Mr. Rohrabacher’s top committee aide, Paul Behrends, in July amid stories about his ties to pro-Russian lobbyists.

Since then, the chairman has taken a more hands-on approach to managing Mr. Rohrabacher’s subcommittee, a Republican House aide said. The chairman has not imposed a blanket ban on Mr. Rohrabacher’s travel or power to convene hearings, nor has he stripped Mr. Rohrabacher of his subcommittee chairmanship.

But Mr. Royce’s aides are closely scrutinizing his requests.

Mr. Rohrabacher has given conflicting assessments of his own status on the committee, most recently saying that he faced few limitations. But in an interview with The New York Times in late October, he acknowledged actions to curtail his activities and said they represented Republican regrets about leaving the gavel to someone who would not “just go along and get along with whatever the State Department wants.”

“What happens with our committee is, if there is anything positive to say about Russia, it is trash-canned,” he said.

Back home, Mr. Rohrabacher’s challengers from both parties have seized on the restrictions and the unwanted attention he is getting from investigators to make the case that he is out of step with the issues voters in the district care about.

Independent analysts and political operatives from both parties said that the Russia issue, the district’s steady leftward drift and a frustration with Republicans in control in Washington has put Mr. Rohrabacher on unstable ground.

Hans Keirstead, a prominent stem-cell researcher competing with five other Democrats to challenge Mr. Rohrabacher, compared the Republican’s Russia record to “a prologue to a very bad book.”

“We’ve got a Russian-tainted congressman,” Mr. Keirstead said in an interview, adding “Why should the constituents of the 48th District vote for an individual whose interests are elsewhere?”

Mr. Rohrabacher may be getting the message. In an invitation to a $1,000-a-head fund-raising lunch he will host at the Monocle Restaurant on Capitol Hill next month, he told supporters he was “under attack” like never before: “The attacks on my conservative positions on issues are unrelenting, nefarious and underhanded.”

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3449088&forum_id=2#35596438)



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Date: July 17th, 2018 7:06 PM
Author: flickering plaza

https://www.thedailybeast.com/maria-butina-russia-nra-spy-charges-touch-reps-rohrabacher-meeks

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3449088&forum_id=2#36447727)



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Date: July 18th, 2018 5:22 PM
Author: flickering plaza



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Date: July 28th, 2018 11:05 AM
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Date: January 5th, 2020 4:07 AM
Author: gold private investor prole

Update?

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Date: March 13th, 2018 3:21 PM
Author: flickering plaza

The Russia investigation has shown few signs of having an impact in this year's congressional elections, but there's a House race in Orange County, Calif., where Vladimir Putin looms large.

In fact, the congressman running for re-election there says he once arm wrestled the Russian president.

Rep. Dana Rohrabacher easily stands out as one of the most pro-Russia voices in the Republican Party. During the 2016 campaign, Politico called him "Putin's favorite congressman." The New York Times reported that Russia viewed him as an intelligence source, even giving him a Kremlin code name. Rohrabacher's story about arm wrestling Putin involves a few rounds of drinks in the 1990s and settling an argument over who won the Cold War.

Members of Congress and those hoping to become members of Congress are generally more focused on bread and butter domestic issues — such as health care, the economy and the environment.

But Rohrabacher is different. Opponents on his left and right are leveraging his long-standing calls for closer relations with Russia as one of the primary issues in their campaign, now that Russian attempts to influence American politics are a flashpoint.

Rohrabacher has two Republican challengers this cycle. One is a pro-Trump Republican who is running to defeat the California Republican on an anti-Russia platform.

"He's advocating a relationship with Russia that I think, it's dangerous for the United States," said Stelian Onufrei, a local businessman in California's 48th Congressional District. "I don't believe necessarily that Russia is our friend, and I don't think that Russia will ever have anything that benefits the United States."

Rohrabacher is also being challenged by a representative of the anti-Trump faction within the Republican Party. Paul Martin, another lifelong Republican, heads an organization called the Christian-Muslim Alliance.

He makes Rohrabacher's stance on Russia the central talking point for his campaign.

"He's embroiled in Russia. His loyalties are to protect Vladimir Putin from having sanctions imposed on him from our Congress," Martin said. "The revelations of his long term relationship with Russia will be coming out. Dana Rohrabacher is not fit to represent the people in this district. I hear about it every single day. I hear about it from Republicans. He is not fit to be the representative of our district any longer."

His opponents on the left also view Rohrabacher's views on Russia as a vulnerability. Harley Rouda, a Democrat challenging Rohrabacher, is having his campaign distribute a sticker that reads: "Piss off Putin — vote Harley Rouda."

"At best, it's stupidity because it's not doing anything to drive a greater, stronger economy," Rouda said. "And from a nefarious standpoint, the question is why are you spending so much time on Russia when there's so many more important things you should be working on?"

Rep. Adam Schiff, the top Democrat on the House investigation into alleged links between the Trump campaign and Russia, is generally urging his fellow California Democrats to campaign on college affordability and how to respond to the economic challenges of globalization and automation.

Not with Rohrabacher's district, which he views as peculiar.

"The Rohrabacher district is probably anomalous, because there the congressman has taken a very visible role in promoting good ties with Putin," Schiff said. "So I think that is an important issue in that district, but that's probably one of the exceptions."

Rohrabacher, reached by phone while on a trip to Paris, defended his stance on Russia.

"It's legitimate to think that I'm vulnerable on that, because they're wrong, because they're listening to the fake news, as well. My opponents are taking advantage of that," Rohrabacher said. His meeting with Russian government officials over the years — and his interest in closer ties with Russia — are a legitimate part of his work, Rohrabacher insists.

"I'm the chairman of the foreign affairs subcommittee that has jurisdiction over Russia, Europe and other parts of the world," Rohrabacher told NPR. "That I would ever meet with Russians, Ukrainians or anybody else is understandable and legitimate."

Orange County is not the place in America where you'd expect to find a congressman so focused on Russia.

The district, which includes a long stretch of California coastline and some of southern California's most charming beaches, has almost no Russian population to speak of. Out of nearly three-quarters of a million residents, only about 11,000 have Russian ancestry, according to the Census.

In fact, California's demographics have been changing pretty dramatically over the past several decades, with the state becoming more Democratic-leaning.

"California has changed. Republican registration over the last two decades has dropped about 12 points," said Jim Brulte, the chairman of the California Republican Party. "The drop tends to parallel the decline in the white population in California. Orange County is not immune from those demographic changes but they're one of the last counties to feel the full effects of the demographic changes."

Critics say Rohrabacher has benefited heavily from incumbency — that many constituents just check the box, without knowing much at all about him.

"A lot of women that I've talked to think, 'Hey, she's doing a great job. Why should we throw her out?'" said Laura Oatman, a Democratic candidate running against Rohrabacher. "And I have to very politely and kindly correct them and say, 'Well apparently you don't know too much about Dana Rohrabacher.'"

There are signs that Rohrabacher's district is moving leftward — in 2016, although Rohrabacher won reelection, Hillary Clinton bested President Trump by nearly 2 percentage points in this district where Mitt Romney had beaten then-President Barack Obama by 11 percentage points in 2012.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3449088&forum_id=2#35596508)



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Date: March 14th, 2018 8:06 PM
Author: flickering plaza

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Tied to Trump, these two California Republican congressmen lag in poll

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California Republicans’ hopes for re-election in 2018 may rest on separating themselves from the unpopular President Trump. A new poll shows that’s not happening as the year begins, at least in two of the state’s most competitive congressional districts.

Majorities of likely voters in the districts of Republican Reps. Dana Rohrabacher of Costa Mesa and Steve Knight of Lancaster aren’t happy with Trump and are disinclined to vote for their representative’s re-election.

The polling, conducted by the University of California, Berkeley’s Institute of Governmental Studies (IGS) in mid-January, finds that support for the two Republicans’ re-election is highly correlated with voter opinions about the president’s job approval, their 2016 presidential vote, and GOP control of Congress.

Rohrabacher’s web of ties to Russia have drawn the attention of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigative team. But his connection to Trump may be equally, if not more, damaging. Despite a Republican voter registration edge in Rohrabacher’s district, over half of likely voters there disapprove of the president. Knight faces a similar dynamic.

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Among those voters in Rohrabacher’s district who disapprove of Trump, 86 percent are not inclined to support their congressman’s re-election bid. In Knight’s district, that figure rises to 90 percent.

Just 38 percent of likely voters approve of Rohrabacher’s job performance compared to 50 percent who disapprove, including 38 percent who disapprove strongly. Knight fares marginally worse. Thirty-seven percent of likely voters in his district approve of the second-term congressman’s job performance and 53 percent disapprove – 40 percent strongly.

“The situation nationally seems to have a huge impact” on two men’s standing in their districts, said IGS Poll Director Mark DiCamillo. “It’s not just local issues that are affecting voters.”

Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article198560324.html#storylink=cpy

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3449088&forum_id=2#35606904)



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Date: July 17th, 2018 7:17 PM
Author: Jet-lagged very tactful organic girlfriend

How many years will he be in prison?

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Date: July 18th, 2018 12:32 AM
Author: Awkward laughsome mother

Probably until he det. A lot of these older dudes who treasoned it up with Russia won't survive even relatively modest sentences. As Paul Manafort is learning first hand, life is pretty rough on the 'inside'.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3449088&forum_id=2#36449737)



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Date: July 18th, 2018 5:22 PM
Author: Dashing Idiotic Toaster Circlehead

Good!

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Date: July 17th, 2018 11:57 PM
Author: flickering plaza



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Date: July 18th, 2018 1:15 PM
Author: flickering plaza

Rohrabacher said he not heard from Mueller or his team at any point in the investigation and doesn’t expect he will.

“They know it’s all bogus,” he said, “and they know that I’m not a pushover.”

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3449088&forum_id=2#36452410)



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Date: July 18th, 2018 5:23 PM
Author: Dashing Idiotic Toaster Circlehead

it's hard to push over a 400 pound man.

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Date: July 28th, 2018 11:07 AM
Author: maroon startled stag film

12/17 posts in this thread are by WLMAS.

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Date: August 22nd, 2018 6:37 AM
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Date: November 23rd, 2019 4:45 PM
Author: Internet-worthy jet clown

sup WLMAS

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Date: November 23rd, 2019 4:48 PM
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Date: January 5th, 2020 3:58 AM
Author: Free-loading hairraiser trailer park philosopher-king



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