Trump Jr. Was Told in Email of Russian Effort to Aid Campaign

[Amica Nostra 4,803]

https://nyti.ms/2u25MrS

 

WASHINGTON — Before arranging a meeting with a Kremlin-connected Russian lawyer he believed would offer him compromising information about Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump Jr. was informed in an email that the material was part of a Russian government effort to aid his father’s candidacy, according to three people with knowledge of the email

 

[Ebunoluwa 6,136]

And the plot thickens.

[Ebunoluwa 6,136]

 Donnie and Vlad want to build a big cyber wall no one can penetrate and Vlad will show Donnie how to build it real pretty.

[JimandChristy 1,689]

As I said yesterday tick follows tock follows tick follows tock....there will be some nervous officials in the White House tonight and they won't be sleeping well!

[JimandChristy 1,689]

Jeff Sessions

Trump Jr

Jared Kushner

Michael Flynn

Paul Manafort

 

All lied to the American people about meeting Russians during the campaign and once caught in the act changed their stories.

 

In addition to these the following said to the American people no one on the Trump campaign had met with Russians.

Pence

Kellyanne De Vil 

Spicer

Priebus

 

This is without a doubt one of the most corrupt and dishonest administrations in my life time. What do all of these people have in common, Donnie!

Edited July 11, 2017 by JimandChristy

[ready4ONE 5,400]

I am sure a 3 am Tweet explaining everything in a clear, concise, complete with actual words in the English language, is coming to explain how much this is all fake news. Putin, I mean Trump, has only the good of the people at heart. #MAGA

[eieio 1,594]

Oh boy....It's going to be a long eight years for some people.

[JimandChristy 1,689]

5 hours ago, eieio said:

Oh boy....It's going to be a long eight years for some people.

Yes for the Trump family, looks like Jr has thrown Donnie under the bus! Released all emails with his discussions with Russia.

[JimandChristy 1,689]

[JimandChristy 1,689]

Trump supporters are all like....

[yuna628 9,743]

Am hearing rumblings that such a meeting was recorded.

This is not the biggest thing in the pipeline though.

[Amica Nostra 4,803]

 

"...I have never even heard of Donald Trump Jr....."

 

[Amica Nostra 4,803]

Donald Trump Jr.'s Reply to an Offer of Russian Government Aid: ‘I Love It’

 

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/07/from-russia-with-love/533235/

In a June 3, 2016, email, Rob Goldstone, a music publicist and acquaintance of Trump Jr. wrote to him:

The Crown prosecutor met with [musician Emin Agalarov’s] father Aras this morning and in their meeting offered to provide the Trump campaign with some official documents and information that would incriminate Hillary and her dealings with Russia and would be very useful to your father.

This is obviously very high level and sensitive information but is part of Russia and its government’s support for Mr. Trump.

The final sentence is essential because it shows that Trump Jr. knew going into the meeting that the purpose was to receive information damaging to the Clinton campaign. Trump Jr. had previously denied that he knew what the meeting was going to be about before he entered it.

In a later email, dated June 7, Goldstone wrote to Trump Jr. that he wished to “schedule a meeting with you and The Russian government attorney who is flying over from Moscow.” That’s important because Trump Jr. previously claimed that he did not know that the woman, Natalia Veselnitskaya, was Kremlin connected. She has also claimed that she was not working on behalf of the government. Goldstone also previously untruthfully told the Times that he did not know the source of the information that Veselnitskaya was offering.

Finally, the emails make clear that Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law and a White House senior adviser, and Paul Manafort, then Trump’s campaign chairman, were both copied in, meaning they too would have been aware of the purpose of the meeting and of Veselnitskaya’s identity. Kushner failed to disclose the June 9 meeting when applying for security clearance, but more recently did disclose it, as did Manafort. Both Kushner and Manafort are under investigation for business dealings and in relation to a broader investigation into the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia.

It’s still unclear if any allegedly damaging information changed hands. Trump Jr. and Veselnitskaya both say it did not, though both have seen their previous accounts proven untruthful. In any case, the Trump campaign never produced any documents that fit the description in the emails. Trump Jr. has said that Veselnitskaya was “vague” about the damaging info and instead focused on frustrations over adoptions of Russian children by Americans, related to the Magnitsky Act, a U.S. law meant to punish Russian human-rights abuses.

[JimandChristy 1,689]

2 minutes ago, ccneat said:

 

"...I have never even heard of Donald Trump Jr....."

 

 

 

[charmander 692]

...just when you were wondering who is the Fredo Carleone of the Trumps. Jr didn't disappoint.