>4 July 2018:
> |
> | "What does July 4th mean to me? Freedom," Sen. Ron Johnson
> | chirruped on Twitter on Independence Day.
> |
> | For the Wisconsin Republican, it meant, specifically, the
> | freedom to spend July 4 in Moscow with seven other
> | Republican lawmakers posing for propaganda photos with
> | Russian officials. On the same day it was reported in
> | Britain that two more people had been poisoned by a Russian
> | nerve agent British officials say came from Vladimir
> | Putin's regime. On the day after the Senate Intelligence
> | Committee affirmed the U.S. intelligence community's
> | conclusion that Russia interfered in the election to help
> | Donald Trump.
> | ...
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/eight-republicans-spent-july-4-in-
russia-where-are-the-fireworks/2018/07/06/beae30be-812e-11e8-b658-
4f4d2a1aeef1_story.html>
>
> --bks
>
>
With Kremlin money short due to sanctions, Ron's money is drying up and he
won't have any for the next election.