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Sessions Dined With Lobbyist For Russian Corps, Omitted It In Testimony
On Thursday, an American lobbyist for several major Russian interests, including a state-run energy company and a private equity firm with the state-run Alfa bank, told the Guardian that Sessions in fact hosted him at two dinners during the presidential campaign. The dinners occurred around the time time that the American public learned of Russian efforts to influence the presidential election.
Richard Burt, a former U.S. ambassador to Germany who now lobbies on behalf a pipeline company owned by the Russian energy giant Gazprom, said he attended events with Sessions at least twice last year, and
his ties to the Trump campaign were reported as early as last October.
Burt also serves on the board of the Center for the National Interest, a Russia-friendly D.C. think tank that hosted Trump’s foreign policy speech at the Mayflower Hotel last April.
Politico reported that Burt helped shape the address Trump delivered at that event, which
Sessions attended as the chairman of the Trump campaign’s national security committee.
This is not the first time Sessions has failed, under oath, to recall a meeting with a Russian official or ally.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/sess...-meeting-trump
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Burt became an advisor for the presidential campaign of Donald Trump.[11]
He encouraged Trump to take a less interventionist approach to foreign affairs[12] and
helped craft Trump's first major foreign policy speech at the pro-Russia think tank Center for the National Interest on April 27, 2016. In the speech,
Trump called for greater cooperation with Russia.
During the campaign, Burt also wrote white papers for Jeff Sessions on foreign policy and national security.
Burt's simultaneous roles as a campaign adviser for Trump and a lobbyist for Russian interests first drew scrutiny in October 2016 following the revelations of other connections between the campaign and Russia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Burt
So Burt is also one of Pootin's cheap s
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