8 Mar 2017 3:02 pm
House Intel Committee asks why Donald Trump surrogate Sheriff David Clarke met with Russia
Palmer Report has previously reported that Milwaukee County Sheriff David A. Clarke, a prominent Donald Trump campaign surrogate, had curiously turned up in Moscow in December 2015.
Clarke made no real effort to hide the trip, even tweeting a photo of himself with a Russian guard.
Trump adviser Michael Flynn and third party presidential candidate Jill Stein were also simultaneously in Moscow.
And now the House Intelligence Committee has begun asking why.
Officially, Sheriff Clarke went to Moscow on behalf of a group called The Right to Bear Arms.
He ended up meeting with Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin.
But that doesn’t add up, because Rogozin was on a U.S. sanctions list and couldn’t have legally done business with the gun group.
This means that yet another Donald Trump campaign figure met with a Russian government representative for reasons can’t easily be explained away.
House Intelligence Committee member Mike Quigley is now referring to David Clarke’s meeting with Rogozin as “disconcerting.”
The committee begins its Trump-Russia hearings on March 20th with an initial witness roster which includes FBI Director James Comey and former acting Attorney General Sally Yates.
