Courtesy of WaPo:Here's Rinat Akhmetshin and Natalia Veselnitskaya at party honoring Trump's inauguration hosted by Dana Rohrabacher. https://t.co/qNiEuBz5xc pic.twitter.com/FeobqMEboO
— Rosalind Helderman (@PostRoz) January 21, 2018
The Washington Post identified at least half a dozen politically connected Russians who were in Washington on Inauguration Day — including some whose presence has not been previously reported. Among them was Viktor Vekselberg, a tycoon who is closely aligned with Putin’s government.
Another was Natalia Veselnitskaya , the Russian lawyer whose June 2016 meeting at Trump Tower with Donald Trump Jr. has become a focus of the Russia investigation. She attended a black-tie inaugural party hosted by the campaign committee of Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.), according to an associate who accompanied her.
Other Russian inaugural guests included Boris Titov, a politician and business advocate who is running for president of Russia with the Kremlin’s blessing.
Like other VIPs in town that weekend, many flocked to the lobby of the Trump International Hotel, where some encountered fellow Russian associates with surprise.
In case you are wondering if this is actually unusual, the answer is yes, yes it is:
Michael McFaul, who served as ambassador to Russia under Obama, said he did not recall prominent Russian visitors at Obama’s 2009 events. “It’s strange,” McFaul, the director of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford, said of the number of influential Russians in attendance last year.
Well it seems only fair that they get to party with the president that their money, funneled through the NRA, helped to elect.
The inauguration was also celebrated in Russia, and the Russian embassy here in America tweeted this:
But don't forget this whole Russia investigation is a Democratic hoax meant to undermine the Donald Trump presidency.Happy #InaugurationDay2017!#Diplophoto Lincoln Memorial, Washington, DC#Фотомир Мемориал Линкольна, Вашингтон pic.twitter.com/KiD9DFZmYU— Russia in USA 🇷🇺 (@RusEmbUSA) January 20, 2017
Right?
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