Congressman: Russian Hacks Were A Good Thing!

That's the opinion of California congressman Dana Rohrabacher, who was considered to be "in the mix" of people Trump was considering for Secretary of State; he is chairman of the House subcommittee on Europe and Eurasia.

And he's a big Putin fan. The article recounts the story of how he lost an arm-wrestling contest with Putin years ago, and states:

In an interview earlier this month with Yahoo News anchor Bianna Golodryga, Rohrabacher said that the anchor's claim that Russia was a human rights abuser was "baloney," then accused her of bias because she was a political refugee from the former Soviet republic of Moldova.

The claim that Russia was a human rights abuser was "baloney"? Does this guy know anything at all?

Click here for an article at CNN by Chris Massie, entitled "GOP congressman on Russian hacking: 'Terrific' that voters got more truthful information."

"The hackers, whether or not they're Russian hackers, I don't know," the California congressman said. "I know the CIA and the FBI disagree as to who the hackers are. But whether they're Russian hackers or any other hackers, the only information that we were getting from hackers was accurate information, was truthful. And that's not gonna turn the tide. If the American people have been given more truthful information, that's terrific."

Right. Thanks, Russia! He claims he doesn't know "they're Russian hackers," but that's a lie. It's common knowledge by now that the FBI and the CIA have come to an agreement that it was Russian hackers, at the behest of one Vladimir Putin, and FBI Director Comey announced today that not only are they sure it was the Russians, but the purpose of the hacks was in part to try to see that Trump was elected president.

The article reports that Rohrabacher, in a California radio interview, said:

"It was truthful and in fact, whoever the hackers were, who could've been our hackers or Russian hackers or whoever, they were doing more investigative journalism into the corruption and arrogance of the liberal Democratic campaign for president than any of the national media, who were just hellbent to try to destroy Don Trump. That's all they focused on."

Again, he's lying about "could've been our hackers or Russian hackers or whoever." And the national media "were hellbent to try to destroy Don Trump"? That's news to me. I seem to remember a constant deafening drumbeat of emails, emails, emails.