An unnamed U.S. congressman was mentioned in a criminal information docket for former Trump campaign aide Rick Gates pleading guilty on Friday to lying to U.S. investigators about a 2013 meeting involving former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, his boss.
Public filings show that the day the meeting took place – March 19, 2013 – Manafort met with Russia-friendly Rep. Dana Rohrabacher of California.
The criminal information that was unsealed on Friday shows that Gates confessed he had falsely claimed he was unaware of any discussions from the meeting about Ukraine.
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Information about the 2013 meeting first emerged in 2017 in supplemental filings from Manafort’s firm, DMP International, and another firm who had a partner participate.
A spokesperson for Rohrabacher downplayed the significance of the meeting, which also involved Vin Weber, a Mercury lobbyist and former congressman.
“As the congressman has acknowledged before, the meeting was a dinner with two longtime acquaintances – Manafort and Weber – from back in his White House and early congressional days,” the spokesperson said, according to Bloomberg.
“The three reminisced and talked mostly about politics,” the spokesperson added. “The subject of Ukraine came up in passing. It is no secret that Manafort represented [former Ukrainian President] Viktor Yanukovych’s interests, but as chairman of the relevant European subcommittee, the congressman has listened to all points of view on Ukraine.”
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Mystery US congressman mentioned in Rick Gates plea document appears to be Dana Rohrabacher https://t.co/nFWBJFh1hK pic.twitter.com/R32CLFkZlQ
— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) February 24, 2018
Rohrabacher is a Russian tool and made it so obvious you’d have to be blind not to see it. Our government should have been keeping a very close eye on the guy. Sadly it seems that our highest levels of government has been infiltrated by the Russians. If McCarthy was still alive he’d probably say that they never left:(
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