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Browder appeared before the committee, which is looking into alleged Russian meddling into the US election, on Thursday.Remember, Browder wasn't even at the Trump Jr. meeting. So what value could his testimony in this regard possibly have? That's right, absolutely none. Putin was right, Russophobia is the new anti-Semitism. Yet could you even imagine someone saying Jews are "all liars who have no empathy and no morals"? But all's fair when it comes to hatred of Russians, it seems.
Browder, CEO of Hermitage Capital, who was sentenced in absentia to nine years in prison for his financial crimes in Russia in the 2000s, was summoned as a key witness and an expert on Putin's Russia.
He has given senators his version of the meeting between Veselnitskaya and the Trump team, comprised of US president Donald Trump's son, Donald Trump Jr., the president's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and then-campaign chairman Paul J. Manafort, during the race for the White House in June 2016.
"Nobody was talking about adoptions. They were talking about the repeal of sanctions so that Russian torturers and murderers could freely travel and keep their money in America," Browder said.
His emotional speech was welcomed by senators as they left little doubt that the witness was saying what they wanted to hear.
Browder told the committee that the Russians are all "liars," who have "no empathy and no morals."
"The Russians will do anything they can get away with and even stuff they can't get away with," he said.
The businessman said that his experience of working in the country taught him that "in Putin's Russia, there are no good guys," adding that he was threatened with kidnapping and death.
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