Rohrabacher Confirms He Floated Pardon With Assange — But Trump Wasn’t Involved | Talking Points Memo

One of them. I think McCarthy mentioned that Trump was being paid by Putin as well.

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“Only after that conversation, Rohrabacher said, did he speak to then-White House chief of staff John Kelly about the matter. Kelly was “courteous,” Rohrabacher said, but did not commit to even telling Trump about the congressman’s meeting.”

That’s OK, Dana checked in with Russia first and they were the ones who would give Trump his marching/pardoning orders anyway.

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Was President Donald Trump behind the offer? Not at all, Rohrabacher said in a new interview published Friday. As Rohrabacher told Yahoo News, it’s not clear Trump even knew about his talk with Assange.

That admission seems to take some of the wind out of the sails of the story.

Both Assange’s lawyer and Rohrabacher seem to agree on some details of what happened: The pair met in August 2017 where Assange had lived for years by that time, at the Ecuadorian embassy in London.

This seems to be 100% BS. It’s fine to print his claim, but it looks like commenters here have had to add all of the already known context to this story.

WTF, Matt?

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Honorary Mujihadeen Barney Ruble.

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Did Rohrabacher just confess to a crime? Campaign laws? Conspiracy?

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" Rohrabacher Confirms He Floated Pardon With Assange — But Trump Wasn’t Involved"

So Rohrbacher, exactly how does that work? You go around offering pardons to Dump associates without his knowledge?

Yeah, that sounds really likely.

Another Dump-sucking liar.

Edit: I’m surprised he didn’t say “Dump didn’t know anything about it - yeah - that’s the ticket - yeah, Dump didn’t know anything about it. I did it all by my lonesome!”

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You expected something from this group of Republicans?

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Or maybe Kim Philby’s old apartment in Moscow is available.

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That’s believable as f**k.

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So…WTF? He is no longer a congresscritter, he has no standing but he ‘floated’ the idea of a pardon and Donnie doesn’t KNOW about it? Oh FFS.

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Maybe Jared was going to get him the pardon, he seems to be doing everything else.

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hahahaha that’s the question, no? hahahahahaha

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Hey, “Anonymous”…

Help us out here. Or write another, better book.

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Everyone tapes Trump, everyone keeps dirt or notes on Trump and everyone has at least two or more witnesses who will corroborate a story against Trump.

I shouldn’t (and I’ll probably be burnt for it), but I believe Assange

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When FBI counterintelligence agents plowed through the emails of alleged Russian agent Maria Butina’s networking around Washington, they discovered her plan to arrange “friendship and dialogue dinners" with influential Americans.

At one dinner, ABC News has learned, in February 2017 at the tony French eaterie, Bistro Bis, one guest who dined with the then-28-year-old Russian was a California Republican congressman on the House Foreign Relations committee, Dana Rohrabacher. Rohrabacher’s office confirmed he attended.

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Seriously this may be the first President to be impeached twice. The corruption is crazy breathtaking.

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tRump and his rubes don’t seem to understand the “plausible” part of “plausible deniability.”

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And Trump is often the one who blurts out (or tweets out) that last step confirmation.

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I have more respect for the VC and NVA whom I killed in Vietnam than I do for Robacher!

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