Donald Trump Jr. asked a Russian lawyer at the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting whether she had evidence of illegal donations to the Clinton Foundation, the lawyer told the Senate Judiciary Committee in answers to written questions obtained exclusively by NBC News.
The lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya, told the committee that she didn't have any such evidence, and that she believes Trump misunderstood the nature of the meeting after receiving emails from a music promoter promising incriminating information on Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump's Democratic opponent.
Once it became apparent that she did not have meaningful information about Clinton, Trump seemed to lose interest, Veselnitskaya said, and the meeting petered out.
Now the only way that this Natalia Veselnitskaya, could have obtained any inside information about Hillary Clinton's campaign, or the Clinton Foundation, would be by way of those Russian hacks that Junior was well aware took place.
This means that Junior was asking for data illegally obtained by a long time foreign adversary in order to win an election.
I'm sorry, what is the definition of "collusion" again?
Or have we now moved to the more appropriate definition, "conspiracy?"
Well Junior will get the opportunity to answer questions about this when he appears before various committees.
Courtesy of Mother Jones:
Donald Trump Jr. will face questions from two congressional committees in coming weeks about his multiple meetings with Russian representatives and his efforts to obtain damaging information on Hillary Clinton from the Kremlin.
Trump, the president’s eldest son, will meet Wednesday with members of the House Intelligence Committee. He is also scheduled to appear this month before the Senate Intelligence Committee, Senator Richard Burr (R-N.C.), the committee’s chairman, told Mother Jones. Committee aides declined to specify the date of the Senate interview. Alan Futerfas, Trump Jr.’s lawyer, did not respond to questions.
The interviews, both of which will occur behind closed doors, come as investigations into the Trump campaign’s contacts with Russia last year accelerate in the wake of special counsel Robert Mueller’s charges against four Trump associates, including former national security adviser Michael Flynn and former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort. Trump Jr. will face questions on at least three aspects of the campaign’s suspected coordination with Russia.
I still do not have a lot of confidence in the House Intelligence committee, but the Senate committee seems popcorn worthy.
How come Trump is snorting like a pig at today's press conference regarding Jerusalem?
ReplyDeleteBecause he is a fast food junkie pig.
DeleteCoke and nervousness by any chance? He's such a horrid man!
DeleteDry mouth and poorly fitted dentures.
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1256 That was my thought.
DeleteTrump made his Jerusalem decision because he needed Jewish votes during the presidential election and didn't want to go back on another campaign promise
ReplyDeleteDon’t blame the Jews for Trumps latest shit bomb. It’s the evangelical Christians that wanted this. It’s all supposed to happen in their twisted religious story in order for the 2nd coming.
DeleteIs there an Israeli Trump Tower? Well there's gonna be one now.
ReplyDeleteRighto, they are going to use taxpayer money to build an embassy .. oops Jerusalem is not the capitol and need to sell one embassy at bargain basement price.Voila new trump tower Jerusalem!
DeleteWhich ,by the way,has zero occupancy because of the terrorist risk.
Clinton Report:
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2015 Clinton Report:
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I’m hoping this little weasel gets his due.
ReplyDeleteJust to clear the confusion... when Hillary and the DNC pay off Russians and an ex-British agent... it is opposition research, but when anyone else does opposition research, it is collusion and a conspiracy?
ReplyDeleteNOW you're getting it!
DeleteNext is false equivalency...
and Whataboutism...
No they are exactly the same so long as they both are trying to gain access to information attained by a hostile government after they illegally hacked into our country's computers.
DeleteChristopher Steele, who was NOT directed by Hillary Clinton, was simply talking to his sources in Russia to learn about Trump's dealings in that country.
And yes that is legit.
Just out of curiosity Gryph, how many degrees of Kevin Bacon does one have to be away from any source providing beneficial information, gained legally or illegally, to claim total ignorance, zero culpability?
DeleteNeither of them are going to do squat.
ReplyDeleteOnly Mueller has the power to do anything. The House and Senate committees are so much show and window dressing. Making it look like they’re doing something when nothing is going to come of anything. What are they going to do? “Censure” Trump Jr? Big fucking deal.
If anyone watched Trump's Jerusalem speech this afternoon, you likely noticed multiple speech slurs. He's either:
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'T'he dentist confided to Scotti that one of his clients was then-real estate mogul and TV game show host Donald Trump, who would come in every six months insisting that his veneers weren’t white enough."
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"The letter went on to say that “Mr. Copson explained that General Flynn was making sure that sanctions would be ‘ripped up’ as one of his first orders of business and that this would allow money to start flowing into the project.”"
ReplyDeletehttp://www.politicususa.com/2017/12/06/bombshell-text-message-mike-flynn-put-trump-presidency.html
https://www.rawstory.com/2017/12/don-jr-cites-attorney-client-privilege-as-reason-he-wont-tel-congress-about-conversations-with-trump/
ReplyDelete"That initial statement, which painted the Trump Tower meeting as one concerning Russian adoption, has since been revealed to be misleading as Trump Jr. himself published emails that showed Kremlin-linked individuals who attended the meeting promising “dirt” on Hillary Clinton."
Ha Ha,Donnie Jr didn't answer any questions citing attorney client privilege between him and daddy because an attorney was present in the room.
ReplyDeleteOMG if these morons get away with this it is over,they are rewriting the law as they go along to cover up their crimes
https://www.yahoo.com/news/whistleblower-inauguration-flynn-texted-nuclear-180906476.html
ReplyDelete"As Donald Trump delivered his presidential inaugural address last January, his national security adviser Michael Flynn told a former business associate in text messages that a private plan to build nuclear reactors in the Mideast was "good to go" and that U.S. sanctions hobbling the plan would soon be "ripped up," a whistleblower told congressional investigators.
The witness did not specify which sanctions Flynn was referring to in his texts. But the nuclear project that Flynn and his business associate had worked on together was stymied by U.S. financial sanctions on Russia."