Posted on 07/14/2017 6:53:17 PM PDT by Pinkbell
Donald Trump Jr faced damaging new claims on Friday that he lied about his meeting with a Russian lawyer, as an ex-Soviet intelligence officer revealed he was there too and claimed a trove of claims about Democrats and 'bad money' was handed over.
Russian-American lobbyist Rinat Akhmetshin - who U.S. intelligence think may still be a spy - told the Associated Press that he was part of the Trump Tower meeting with Don Jr.
Don Jr brought Jared Kushner, his brother-in-law who is now one of President Donald Trump's , and Paul Manafort, then the campaign chairman. But on Friday Akhmetshin and other sources revealed stunning new details about the meeting which put Don Jr on the ropes.
Akmetshin's disclosure of being there blew apart Don Jr's claim on Tuesday to have told 'everything' there was to say about the meeting - because the president's son had only admitted to the presence of Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya.
Then Akhmetshin, a former Soviet military intelligence officer, piled on the pressure with a bombshell claim that Veselnitskaya had brought a plastic folder full of printed documents which contained claims of the Democratic National Committee receiving dirty Russian money.
That directly contradicted Don Jr's account that no information had been received from the visiting Russians. Don Jr was uncharacteristically silent on twitter as disclosure followed disclosure.
In contrast his brother-in-law Jared Kushner was grinning and relaxed as he and his wife Ivanka mingled with media moguls at Sun Valley in Idaho.
Democrats are beginning to seize on the claims with Bernie Sanders telling an Associated Press reporter: 'These are very, very, very serious allegations.'
He added that there should not be a rush to judgment. The most damage of the day was done to Don Jr's credibility.
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'This could be a good issue to expose how the DNC is accepting bad money,' Akhmetshin recalled the attorney saying, according to comments he made to the AP.
Akhmetshin went on saying Donald Trump Jr asked Veselnitskaya if she had all the proof in the information she was delivering.
She replied that the Trump campaign would have to do some digging itself.
After that, Akhmetshin told the AP, Donald Trump lost interest. 'They couldn’t wait for the meeting to end,' the Russian-American lobbyist said.
Why did the U.S. give citizenship to this guy that they think is a spy? Supposedly he has dual citizenship. If they think he's a spy, they should have kicked him out of the country.
Anyway, this doesn't look good at all. If all this is true, why wouldn't he be straight forward on Hannity? It's obvious that all of this was leaking out as the meeting and emails were revealed. Tell the whole truth. We're now up to 8 people in the meeting AND it turns out info was given. It doesn't sound like they ever used this info provided because we never heard a word about it during the campaign. Why try to cover it up when someone there was leaking details?
Is everybody missing the fact that there is evidence the DNC was getting illegal donations?
or maybe the Russian is outright lying...t
The Democrats are out to destroy Don Jr’s political future by taking him out of a race for US Senate or a cabinet post in the second term.
I’m sure Brain Williams was in the room also.
Lies. I don’t even pay attention to this garbage anymore, and I’ll wager most people don’t. either.
Your pearl clutching is noted
No, they’re not missing that at all. Why do you think they’re screaming so loudly about the lying?
Natalia Veselnitskaya stated that SHE HAD NO INFO, NO FILES, NOTHING. How could she give Don Jr. something she didn’t have ?
Excuse me, can anyone tell me why files showing the DNC getting dirty money from Russia, would be bad news for DJT Jr? You Mean Don Jr. had no right to know that?
This entire episode is a DNC plant.
Besides... are we suddenly supposed to believe something some Russian spy claims? I thought the Russians were all about disinformation and propaganda and interference.
Make the Russian spy produce duplicates of the material. It doesn’t exist
Considering that Don's story hasn't changed one bit, and he released the chain of emails, yet the Russian spy, the Russian Lawyer, CNN, ABC, NBC, and the democrats keep changing their story.... I don't see his credibility being damaged at all.
Was this spook really at the meeting ? Where is his proof ?
If not, they failed to follow up on the allegations of illegal funds flowing to the DNC. Perhaps such info was present on the 'hacked' DNC server, and that's why the DNC refused to let FBI look at it...
This meeting took place in Trump Tower. Is the Trump Tower
void of cameras? It would be interesting to see which people
entered, exited, etc around the time of the supposed meeting.
So, I didn’t read anything in this so-called bombshell that the info “brought along” to the meeting by the Russians was “left with” DJT Jr. He probably also brought two socks to the meeting. The ones he was wearing. He might have even claimed to be wearing those socks at the meeting, and/or he might, even today, swear on a stack of Bibles he was wearing socks at the meeting. But he took those socks away from the meeting.
So what is this?
NBC, which initially withheld Akhmetshin’s name, described the lobbyist as holding dual American and Russian citizenship, having emigrated to the US after serving in the Soviet military.
So this Soviet Agent is actually an American citizen.
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