GOP Congressman Sought Trump Deal on WikiLeaks, Russia

[MelissaB]

GOP Congressman Sought Trump Deal on WikiLeaks, Russia

Rep. Rohrabacher asks for pardon of Julian Assange in return for evidence of no 2016 election meddling

By Byron Tau,
Peter Nicholas and
Siobhan Hughes
Sept. 15, 2017 5:11 p.m. ET

WASHINGTON—A U.S. congressman contacted the White House this week trying to broker a deal that would end WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s U.S. legal troubles in exchange for what he described as evidence that Russia wasn’t the source of hacked emails published by the antisecrecy website during the 2016 presidential campaign.

More: https://www.wsj.com/articles/gop-congressman-sought-trump-deal-on-wikileaks-russia-1505509918?tesla=y

I can only get the first paragraph. Sorry.

Edit: Found snip posted on twitter.

Link to tweet

[MelissaB]

1. Baby cannon goes boom again today.

Link to tweet

[Mrs. Overall]

2. Yes!

[MelissaB]

3. "There's two people I think Putin pays: Rohrabacher and Trump."

[MelissaB]

4. I found a longer snip

from twitter.

Link to tweet

[awesomerwb1]

5. Comrade Rohrbacher

This traitor idiot sits on the Committee on Foreign Affairs??

[yortsed snacilbuper]

6. here's rohrbacher from last month too, same same.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029531668

[MelissaB]

9. I wonder what he gets out of this.

Unless he's doing it because of kompromat, I'm clueless.

[JonLP24]

7. I knew who this was going to be about before I even clicked the link

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He couldn't be more obvious about his collusion with Russia.

[MelissaB]

10. I keep scratching my head because I don't understand why.

[JonLP24]

11. Don't understand what?

I fixed my post. I meant I knew who this was going to be about before I clicked on the story rather than post. I sometimes mix words up when I type.

[janx]

8. "Mr. Kelly told the congressman that the proposal

"was best directed to the intelligence community"...