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orangecrush

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Sat Jul 4, 2026, 03:59 PM Saturday

On this day in 2018 a group of GOP Congress celebrated July 4th in MOSCOW [View all]

A group of Republican lawmakers met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Moscow on Tuesday in hopes of mending the strained relations between the two countries.

The lawmakers' visit to Russia comes two weeks ahead of the planned July 16 summit in Helsinki, Finland, between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin. Lavrov met with the group the same day he spoke with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo about the Trump-Putin meeting, as well as issues related to Syria and North Korea, where Pompeo is headed later this week.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cnbc.com/amp/2018/07/03/ahead-of-trump-putin-summit-republicans-meet-with-russian-officials-i.html

"On July 4, 2018, an official congressional delegation of eight Republican lawmakers spent Independence Day in Moscow. During the trip—the first by U.S. lawmakers to Russia since the 2014 annexation of Crimea—the group attended a holiday event at the U.S. Embassy.The lawmakers who made the trip were:Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL)Sen. Steve Daines (R-MT)Sen. John Hoeven (R-ND)Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI)Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA)Sen. Jerry Moran (R-KS)Sen. John Thune (R-SD)Rep. Kay Granger (R-TX)"

Fuck each and every one of these traitors to the Constitution.


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