By now, practically everyone has seen that picture of the two guys at President Trump’s weekend rally in Ohio wearing T-shirts that said: “I’d Rather be a Russian than a Democrat!”
Many have also seen the visuals of Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul hobnobbing in Moscow this week with members of the Russian Council, sometimes called his “counterparts.” These included the chairman of the council’s foreign policy panel, Konstantin Kosachev, who happens to be under official U.S. sanction for his government’s actions against our government.
But that didn’t seem to bother Paul, who invited Kosachev and others to visit the USA.
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