Rohrabacher Booed At ‘From Russia With Trump’ Political Convention Panel

House Foreign Affairs Committee member Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif. speaks against the Ukraine Support Act during the committee's hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 25, 2014. The Senate and Hous... House Foreign Affairs Committee member Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif. speaks against the Ukraine Support Act during the committee's hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 25, 2014. The Senate and House appear headed for a standoff over competing bills to authorize sanctions on Russia and provide aid to Ukraine, potentially prolonging Congress' inaction over the two weeks since Russian President Vladimir Putin's military intervention in the Crimean peninsula. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) MORE LESS

Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) on Sunday faced boos and heckling from the audience of a panel called “From Russia With Trump” at a political convention.

Rohrabacher, who is so well known for defending Russia and Russian President Vladimir Putin that he has been dubbed “Putin’s favorite congressman,” sat on the panel at Politicon with Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA), CNN commentator and Republican strategist Ana Navarro and former NSA intelligence officer Malcolm Nance.

Rohrabacher said he appreciated the opportunity to talk to people “who obviously don’t like me,” according to the Los Angeles Times.

Members of the audience demanded that Rohrabacher hold “town hall meetings” in his district, called the congressman “paranoid” and shouted, “Shame on you!”

Rohrabacher responded to hecklers, “It’s usually fascists who don’t let somebody talk.”

When Rohrabacher brought up former President Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and the Clinton foundation as counter points, according to the report, a man in the audience yelled, “Fox News talking point!”

“Let’s avoid outright hostility,” the panel’s moderator Vince Houghton said.

According to the report, Houghton did not ask Rohrabacher about his own alleged ties to Russia, but thanked him at the end of the panel for appearing before a hostile audience.

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  1. I could never understand Bill Maher’s lovefest with Rohrabacher as he was always a tool with canned talking points. I predict his days in congress will be over with the next election.

    OT but yet another first for Team Tramp from the overtly biased Rasmussen today

  2. Rohrabacher is going to be indicted, not just defeated.

  3. There’s a lot about Bill Maher I don’t understand – for instance, how he came to be so unbearably smug.

  4. This low in the Rasmussen Poll may mean he is lower in Gallup and Quinnipiac. How low will these numbers need to be before the Republicans desert him?

  5. Rohrabacher, Ann Coultergeist, Christine O’Donnell, Arianna Huffington in her anti-Clinton days, …

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