On this day in 2018 a group of GOP Congress celebrated July 4th in MOSCOW

[orangecrush]

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.

[Chasstev365]

1. And they've NEVER had to explain what they were doing there...

[AZ8theist]

3. They were taking orders. That much is obvious by their behavior afterwards.

[popsdenver]

6. they were a special group of Republicans

Thanking the Russians/Putin for assisting with them winning the 2016 Election.......Wasn't Jill Stein the presidential candidate for the Green Party along with them? She ran purely, to aid the Republicans, by taking votes away from Hillary......( a cute trick Josie Heath did here in Colorado, and it worked.....she took enough votes away from Dottie Lamm, to get the Republican elected)

[ChicagoTeamster]

2. I always reminded my former MAGA family and friends of that when they post Trump shit on Facebook

Fake patriots who went to our nation’s greatest adversary on our national anniversary

[BattleRow]

4. The Force Of You Lie...

Not the Fourth of July.

[OGBuzz]

5. A special thank-you to Putin for helping to get Trump over the finish line in 2016.

[4bonhoffer]

7. Spot on

Too bad the Dems suck at messaging. They can still use this, but they should have pounded the table about this over and over and over……

[orangecrush]

9. There is a new group of Democrats

Who don't suck at messaging, and can be counted on to pound on MAGATs.

[BurnDoubt]

8. Since the GOP...

is 100% transactionalist, I’m wondering what was the quid-pro-quo for this stunt and the resulting skullduggery done to our Democracy?
I’m OK with it if they are summarily stripped of their Citizenship and assets and remanded to ICE detention for six months and then renditioned to a black-hole secret Prison in some unknown location. At Least.
I think they need to PROVE they haven’t committed Treason, or the “peace-time” equivalent. (Jane Fonda)
I’m pretty sure they’ve caused more damage to our “way of life” than the lady who makes the beds at Motel 6, or her 6-year-old niece.
Will we ever find our way out of this House of Mirrors?

[orangecrush]

10. Great post

And yes, I have hope.

[MagickMuffin]

11. I called my Reps office Kay Granger and could never get an answer

Then she eventually went awol from Congress while roaming the streets of Fort Worth before her son got her admitted to a posh senior assisted living facility.

I went to visit a friend there and it was too expensive for him.