Posted on 09/15/2017 6:57:20 PM PDT by TigerClaws
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher said someone leaked information about his call this week with White House chief of staff John Kelly, possibly to undermine his ability to speak directly with President Trump about WikiLeaks.
The Republican congressman from California spoke with Kelly on Wednesday regarding his recent meeting with WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange in London, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday evening, and broached a possible trade. 10 Social-Media Marketing Strategies for Companies Watch Full Screen
Rohrabacher reportedly used the word "deal" in his conversation with Kelly and said Assange would get a pardon or "something like that" in exchange for information files on a data-storage device showing that Russia did not hack Democratic emails that WikiLeaks published last year during the 2016 campaign.
"He would get nothing, obviously, if what he gave us was not proof," Rohrabacher told Kelly, according to the Journal.
Rohrabacher said after his August meeting with Assange that WikiLeaks could disprove the conclusion of U.S. spy agencies that Russia was responsible for hacking Democratic emails, and that he would seek a meeting with Trump to discuss the information.
Rohrabacher told the Washington Examiner on Friday evening that he would not confirm quotes attributed to him, and said nobody in his office was responsible for disclosing the call.
"I have honored the confidentially of a very important business-related call," he said, speculating that someone inside the White House or within U.S. intelligence agencies leaked the call.
"I don't know who it is, all I know is I'm up against an array of very powerful forces, including the intelligence services and major newspapers that are basically allied with the liberal Left who have every reason to undermine communication on this issue," he told the Washington Examiner.
"Look, there are very powerful forces at work," he added. "We've got the NSA, the FBI and the CIA, all of whom confirmed a major lie that was being used for political purposes and a lie that was repeated and repeated in order to undercut our new president."
Rohrabacher said White House leaks to the press are particularly bad during Republican presidencies, as staffers attempt to ingratiate themselves with reporters, and he's not ruling that out as an explanation.
"You've got people who are obviously just trying to cover their ass for mistakes they have made," he added, referring to the intelligence agency theory. "They will probably do their best to keep Trump from knowing about this and knowing about his options to expose this."
Rohrabacher has for years been skeptical of U.S. policy toward Russia, defending its annexation of Crimea while former President Barack Obama was in office before refusing to accept that Russia interfered in the 2016 election to help Trump.
The congressman is celebrated by some groups for his maverick approach to politics, such as his leadership role pushing for marijuana reform legislation, but also is known for making sometimes head-turning remarks.
Rohrabacher was quoted earlier this week as saying he believed Confederate war re-enactors had been tricked into rallying in Charlottesville, Va., last month. He said he stood by those remarks.
"I don't think I was misquoted, [but] there should be no implication that I believe Civil War re-enactors are stupid," he said. Rohrabacher said he can't recall the source of that information, but that he believes he heard it in a news report.
So the “Russians hacked the election” was total bull.
We knew that months ago.
Dana also ticking off Leftists with this this week:
We elect our guy, then he’s NOT in charge of the US government.
HOW does that work...?
SEDITION is a thing, isn’t it..?
Sessions needs to order a PRE-DAWN RAID on that Sumbich ObamaDUNGSH*T if these leaks are to stop.
The Deep State (including Hillary) wants Assange DEAD, BECAUSE THEY KNOW WHAT HE IS IN POSSESSION OF. But that wouldn't do any good because YOU CAN BET he has a 'dead switch' on Hitlary's 33,000 deleted emails.
He never should have conducted any such discussion over the phone if he did not want it to get out. After ALL the leaks we have seen, he should have insisted that he would only talk with Pres. Trump directly, in the most secure possible setting.
Does Pres. Trump HAVE any totally private and secure setting, or is he under constant surveillance and oversight by the friggin’ Deep State???!!!
“We elect our guy, then he’s NOT in charge of the US government.”
The leftists control the fed gov. 96% of them voted for that treasonous corrupt harpy, including a majority of the so called repubikans...That’s a lot of corruption.
Their message to Trump, “Fine, so you won an election now try and govern.”
28 yrs of bushes, clintons, & O’muslims...The entire fed gov. is irreparably corrupt. We need treason trials and hangings on the national mall.
Trump has had several conversations with foreign leaders leaked. McCain has been fingered a few places for leaking the Deep State info.
Bill Clinton was on record as saying, “there’s a shadow government, and I don’t control it.”
Yes, but it seems there is no one left in gov’t to actually carry that out. So who would actually do that?
Rohrabacher has been talking constantly with Hannity about the information he got during his meeting with Assange. He has never gone into any detail about the info though. Rohrabacher has said he has been trying to get a meeting with the President. Rohrabacher is my congressman & I have sent a couple of e=mails to him. His response is that he is trying to get a meeting.
I can’t figure out why if he has information that would exonerate the president & blow this whole case out of the water, it would be so hard to get a meeting with the President. If I was Trump & knew this, I would send a limo to get him in my oval office in 2 minutes.
I’m beginning to think Kelly isn’t 100% on the President’s side.
I’m beginning to think Kelly isn’t 100% on the President’s side.
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I haven’t trusted him or McMasters from the start. Our President needs an intervention, which would be funny if it weren’t sad and true.
“Yes, but it seems there is no one left in gov’t to actually carry that out. So who would actually do that?”
A convention of the states. Barring that, the people.
The swamp is deep and hears everything and exposes what it wants exposed.
Have they checked to see if the phones are bugged and if certain ex-WH Staff aren’t listening in????
If something like Amazon’s Alexa can pick up a conversation and, for example, order a product you are discussing, what is there to keep some kind of remote controlled technology embedded somewhere in the White House, or even aimed at the White house, to relay every conversation there. I picture ValJar listening to anything she wants to.
The Amusing part of this show to me is, the Gang of Eight KNOWS EVERYTHING already, and you can bet your ass top leaders from BOTH Parties know the Truth, they Don’t want anybody else to Know the Truth.
Huge news. Why would Assange not be granted hero status and pardon if he totally annihilates the Democrats lie that nobody relives but the media that the Russians rigged the election? There is no question that this deal needs to be made. We all knew this was happening. This leak is meaningless. What are we waiting for here?
Kelly is a Deep State operative. So is McMaster.
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