President Trump just appointed Milwaukee County Sheriff David A. Clarke Jr. to an executive position at the Department of Homeland Security.

In a tweet about his Russian exploits, Sheriff Clarke said that he met Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov.

That’s the same Russian official that Trump met with last week in the Oval Office, which precipitated this week’s crisis after the President spilled the beans on top secret Israeli intelligence.

Amazingly, Clarke visited Moscow in 2015 with an NRA delegation, at the very same time that General Flynn attended dinner with Vladimir Putin for RT’s 10th anniversary.

The rabidly anti-Black Lives Matter Sheriff posted a tweet of his visit to Red Square.

The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reported Clarke’s appointment after he appeared on a local radio program:

“Milwaukee County Sheriff David A. Clarke Jr. will leave office next month to accept a federal appointment as an assistant secretary in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

He will work in the department’s Office of Partnership and Engagement as a liaison with state, local and tribal law enforcement and governments.”

Clarke didn’t just meet with Lavrov, but also had an audience with two more of Putin’s deputies, including a Russian central banker who tried to visit the White House earlier this year, leading to a mini-crisis and revocation of the President’s invitation — because Alexander Torshin has been charged with racketeering in Spain.

Torshin’s “special assistant” Maria Butina runs Russia’s Fake NRA group called “The Right to Bear Arms,” which not coincidentally organized the visit that brought Clarke to Moscow.

Russia has absolutely no right to bear arms, restricts access to weapons closely, as you’d expect in an authoritarian regime.

Nobody knows exactly who funds Butina’s fake Russian NRA, but her story a week before Trump’s declaration of candidacy entitled “The Bear and the Elephant” is eerily predictive of events to follow.

If the website looks familiar, it is the same pro-Putin think tank in DC which sponsored the infamous Mayflower Hotel meeting last year, where Trump met with Russian Ambassador Kislyak.

Deputy Prime Minister Rogozin’s tweet about his meetup with the NRA. Note that Sheriff Clarke is in the top right panel.

As I discovered in the seminal article about this fake Russian NRA, “From Russia with Love for the NRA,” Putin’s Deputy Prime Minister Rogozin attended along with Torshin.

Of course, the proof is posted on Twitter:

The trip generated controversy because Rogozin was an individual subject of U.S. sanctions because of his role in Russia’s invasion of Eastern Ukraine. Rogozin is the former leader of the ultra-right party Rodina (Motherland) and has advocated for the restoration of the Russian Empire, to include Alaska, which he calls “Russian America.” From 2008 to 2011, he served as the Russian ambassador to NATO, where he focused on preventing Ukraine and Georgia from joining NATO. Rogozin has also bragged about Russia’s “first strike” cyberwarfare capability.

The Trump Administration is crumbling as the President tries to obstruct multiple investigations into General Flynn and Russia.

Naturally, in the wake of yesterday’s devastating revelations they’ve brought in a high level official to a national position, with even more conspicuous ties to the Russian regime than anyone except Flynn himself.

This cannot end well.