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One of the Republican senators back from a trip to Moscow is suggesting that Congress went too far in punishing Russia for meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. “I’ve been pretty Yes. In 2018, Republican Sen. Ron Johnson visited Moscow, Russia with a group of seven other members of Congress on the Fourth of July. During the visit, the group warned Russia to not interfere wi While most Americans were busy celebrating our nation’s independence, GOP leaders spent July 4 (along with the two days leading up to it) meeting with Russian officials in Moscow. By all accounts, the meeting went well for the Russians. This July Fourth, a congressional delegation is visiting Moscow for the first time since Russia's annexation of Crimea. They're all Republicans, and their visit is a prelude to the Trump-Putin summit. In 2018, a group of Republican legislators made a visit to Russia that coincided with the Fourth of July. However, to imply this action was unpatriotic is a misrepresentation of the facts. The group was on a diplomatic mission to warn Russia against meddling in the 2018 midterm election. The trip occurred a month before Trump and Putin were to meet to discuss Russian influence in the 2016 Inside a controversial mission to Moscow. A top Republican senator shocked his colleagues when he suggested, after returning from a trip to Moscow with fellow GOP lawmakers, that U.S. A group of GOP lawmakers spent July 4 in Moscow after several days of meetings with Russian officials, according to NPR. The group, which included seven Republican senators and one House The visit by seven Senate Republicans and one Republican from the House of Representatives included Wisconsin’s Senior Senator Ron Johnson, who chairs the Senate’s Foreign Relations Committee Subcommittee on Europe and Regional Security Cooperation. 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. WASHINGTON – Republican lawmakers who went to Russia seeking a thaw in relations received an icy reception from Democrats and Kremlin watchers for spending the Fourth of July in a country that Six U.S. senators and a congresswoman are in Moscow this week ahead of a summit between presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin in Finland later this month.Russian media outlets have presented Republican senators didn’t actually spend all of July 4th in Moscow—they split their time between the Russian headquarters and the US sales office. No Democrats were included on this trip. It's hard not to wonder what they were thinking. Eight Republican members of Congress -- seven senators and one House member -- traveled to Moscow ahead of the July 4th holiday, sounding a It was right around this time that seven Republican members of Congress -- six senators and one House member -- were in Moscow. Making matters much worse, however, is what the GOP lawmakers had Democrats, Kremlin watchers question why the senators spent the Fourth of July meeting with Kremlin-connected officials when Russia won’t admit to interfering in U.S. elections. A group of Republican senators visited Moscow to deliver a warning to Russian President Vladimir Putin not to meddle in midterm elections. NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks to Sen. Jerry Moran Fresh off a trip to Moscow during the week of July 4, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.) and Rep. Kay Granger (R-Texas) are downplaying the threat Russian election interference presents to American democracy. There's talk going around Resistance circles that when seven U.S. lawmakers, all Republicans, met with top Russian officials in Moscow over the Fourth of July recess, they didn't even bring Seven senators — John Kennedy (R-LA), Richard Shelby (R-AL), Steve Daines (R-MT), John Hoeven (R-ND), John Thune (R-SD), Jerry Moran (R-KS), and Ron Johnson (R-WI) — and one House member, Kay Granger (R-TX), are all in Moscow over the Fourth of July holiday this week for talks with Russian lawmakers and officials, according to reporting “In a normal year, a U.S. Senator lying about where he was on the 4th of July (he was in Moscow) would be a major scandal,” producer Ben Wexler tweeted. “Senator Daines sent out a 4th of July tweet implying he was at the Capitol the same day he was in Russia,” Don Moynihan, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said in a tweet.
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