Congressional Republicans’ trip to Russia was a shameful fool’s errand
Until a few years ago, the only senior Republican who had anything good to say about Russia was California’s eccentric Rep. Dana Rohrbacher who, despite representing the John Birch Society’s old Orange County stamping ground, seemed totally beguiled by Russia and most particularly by Vladimir Putin.
But in 2016, he got the high-level affirmation for his dalliance with the oligarchs and poisoners in the Kremlin from then-presidential nominee Donald Trump, who initially maintained in the face of the unanimous opinion of the U.S. intelligence community that Russia made no effort to influence our last presidential election.
