According to audio accessed by the newspaper, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) told his colleagues “There’s two people, I think, Putin pays: Rohrabacher and Trump.”
McCarthy defended that comment as “a bad attempt of a joke.”
Rohrabacher said in a Friday interview with The Hill that McCarthy had apologized to him.
“He came up and said, ‘Dana, I’m really sorry, I told this joke and now people are trying to make it look like I was serious,'” Rohrabacher said. “I said, ‘Don’t worry about it.'”
For the record, an unnamed official told the Times there was no evidence that Rohrabacher had been paid by Russia.
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Rohrabacher (R-CA) told the Times that the warning had focused on his meeting with a member of the Russian Foreign Ministry during a trip to Moscow in 2012.
“They were telling me he had something to do with some kind of Russian intelligence,” he said, referring to what an FBI agent had told him. Rohrabacher said he was told Russia “looked at me as someone who could be influenced.”
The California Republican told the Times he hadn’t needed the warning.
“Any time you meet a Russian member of their Foreign Ministry or the Russian government, you assume those people have something to do with Russian intelligence,” he told the paper.
TPM
Has no one told Trump?
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.
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