RUSSIAN Collusion: Democratic Head of Senate Collusion Probe, Mark Warner, Sought Off-the-Books Back-Channel Communication with Christopher Steele, Using Legal Counsel to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov as His Agent

If Democrats make use of RUSSIAN agents, that's, what? Patriotic?

A lobbyist who served as a back channel between Christopher Steele and Virginia Democratic Sen. Mark Warner served as legal counsel to Russia's foreign minister and lobbied on behalf of a Russian oligarch with ties to Paul Manafort.

Documents filed with the Department of Justice show that Adam Waldman of Endeavor Law Firm, served as counsel to Sergey Lavrov, Russia's foreign minister, from 2010 until last year. He has also worked for Oleg Deripaska, a billionaire aluminum magnate with close ties to Putin, since 2009.

It took virtually no time at all for Mark Warner to receive the support of his political ally, Marco Rubio.

Republican Florida Sen. Marco Rubio leapt to Democratic Virginia Sen. Mark Warner’s defense Thursday night after a new report revealed Warner exchanged text messages with a top lobbyist for a Russian oligarch.

Warner texted back and forth with lobbyist Adam Waldman in an effort to contact former British spy Christopher Steele, the author of the infamous Trump-Russia dossier, Fox News reports. Waldman previously represented Russian billionaire Oleg V. Deripaska, who is known to be close to Putin.

Warner appears to have tried to keep secret his contacts with the lobbyist, saying in one text he would "rather not have a paper trail."

Despite Warner's apparent effort to keep the conversations secret, Rubio defended the Democratic senator as being transparent with the Senate Intelligence Committee. "Sen. Warner fully disclosed this to the committee four months ago," Rubio wrote on Twitter, adding that the material has "had zero impact on our work."

But, as Chuck Ross points out, if Warner admitted this four months ago, that would be seven months after he'd sought this RUSSIAN collusion.

Furthermore, Rubio neatly misses the point: Why is it okay for Democrats to seek out RUSSIAN agents for dirt?

And, if all of this was on the up-and-up, why was Mark Warner so insistent on a secret go-between with "no paper trail"?

It's extraordinary how quickly these cucks will vouch for their Democrat fwiends, apparently believing their Democrat fwiends will do the same for them.

It's adorable -- and sad.

posted by Ace at 12:29 PM

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