[detective]

Sessions represents a district of Dallas that includes a large Exxon presence. The oil giant has been trying to get paid for the assets the Chavista socialists nationalized without paying for and then ruined. Something there might be on the agenda, particularly since Venezuela has been defaulting on its debt and allowing its oil industry to go to seed. The Associated Press has a bit more here.

Durbin, meanwhile, has no obvious reason to be there. The State Department might know what he had in mind, but those guys aren't talking.

Sessions might be trying to get the Venezuelan government to compensate Exxon and other U.S. energy companies. China and Russia pulled out of Venezuela and the government is desperate.

But why is lying slime ball Durbin tagging along?

[PIF]

Turbin Durbin just likes to rub shoulders with dictators - he has a history of cuddling up to them.

[Navy Patriot]

What's up with Dick Durbin's and Pete Sessions's secret junket to Venezuela?

The bribes have not been arriving at Durbin's office or the DemoRat National Committee as scheduled.

[Repealthe17thAmendment]

Durbin is just making a pilgrimage to the land where all his political ideas come from.

[WayneS]

I hope it’s because Dick Durbin is defecting and that Pete Sessions went along just to make sure Durbin doesn’t change his mind...

[mewzilla]

Maybe why they went down has nothing to do with Venezuela, but the PTB down there were happy to provide the 2 with cover for whatever the 2 really are doing.

[RatRipper]

Cheap sex vacation????

[Enchante]

If only the Chavistas would keep Lil Dicky Durbin..... birds of a feather....

[Red Badger]

$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$....................

[Lurkinanloomin]

My guess is they were coordinating the next wave in the illegal alien inundation.
Both of these guys are Cheap Labor Express stooges.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Durbin is just there to gather policy ideas for the next time the Democrats get back into power.

[BipolarBob]

Sounds like collusion to me.

[Retvet]

Durbin is a swamp electric eel, thousands of swamp bottom muck!

[Old Yeller]

Why did Jon Cary go to Antarctica right before he left office. Oh yea, the only continent he had not been on, and he wanted to check that box on the taxpayers dime.

[Vaduz]

Durbin, meanwhile, has no obvious reason to be there.

OH yes he did $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

[piasa]

Illinois has a big oil refinery.

[ataDude]

Doesn’t the Logan Act prevent anyone other than the executive branch from “helping” with foreign relations?

[piasa]

Colluding with colluders?

SEPTEMBER 2009 : (VENEZUELAN DICTATOR CHAVEZ GIVES SPEECH AT MOSCOW UNIVERSITY ...) INATODAY.com - INTERNATIONAL NEWS ANALYSIS TODAY: “CHAVEZ PREDICTS THE END OF AMERICA AT MOSCOW UNIVERSITY” (SNIPPET: “Venezuela’s Marxist president-dictator Hugo Chavez addressed an influential university in Moscow stating that America’s influence in the world is “dying,” and will be replaced in “the next decades” by a “multi-polar” world in which Russia plays a leading role.”) (September 17, 2009) (Read More...)

[piasa]

Even Venezuela's Russian and Chinese sugar daddies are dumping the socialist hellhole ‎4‎/‎3‎/‎2018‎ ‎1‎:‎23‎:‎57‎ ‎PM · by detective · 12 replies American Thinker ^ | April 3, 2018 | Monica Showalter

[piasa]

At the same time as Fusion GPS was being paid directly by Russian clients in Washington, it was also being paid by a Venezuelan company called Derwick Associates that reportedly skimmed billions of dollars from rigged contracts with Hugo Chavez’s regime—and which did large amounts of business with Russian state companies like Gazprom and Gazprombank that are sanctioned by Washington for issues related to Russia’s involvement in Ukraine. That’s how Fusion GPS kept the lights on. --- News-For-Hire Scandal Deepens: ‘Fusion GPS’ Sleazy Venezuela Links Shed New Light on Trump Dossier Tablet Magazine ^ | 27 July 2017 | Lee Smith Posted on ‎7‎/‎30‎/‎2017‎ ‎3‎:‎45‎:‎46‎ ‎PM by Lorianne

[piasa]

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