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Russian lawyer Veselnitskaya gives her account of fateful Trump Jr. meeting
The Washington Times ^ | 08/04/2017 | David R. Sands

Posted on 08/04/2017 3:20:18 PM PDT by Fedora

The Russian lawyer whose June 2016 meeting with Donald Trump Jr. and other top Trump campaign officials has become a prime focus of the Russian election collusion probe is denying the meeting involved Hillary Clinton or the U.S. campaign, adding the congressional probes into the scandal are not interested in hearing her side of the story.

In a 10-minute interview on the Russian news program Vesti, Natalia Veselnitskaya said she sought the meeting as part of her efforts to help Russian businessman Denis Katsyv. . .

"It was a private meeting," Ms. Veselnitskaya told the interviewer, according to an account Friday in the Moscow Times. "I asked for help--help to get out a story I had come across in my professional capacity."

The meeting "had nothing to do with [then-candidate Donald Trump's] rivals or the presidential election," she added. "That never happened. That's not true.". . .

In the television interview, Ms. Veselnitskaya said her purpose in speaking to the Trump campaign was part of an effort to speak to "everyone who could provide any kind of support in the U.S. Congress" for her client's case.

She was harshly critical of William Browder. . ."The Russian government and Vladimir Putin were in effect coming to this meeting," Mr. Browder said.

But Ms. Veslenitskaya told the Russian news show the meeting was "innocent" and that Mr. Browder was running a "financial scam."

Mr. Veselnitskaya also complained that she had not been invited to testify at any of the hearings of the multiple House and Senate committees looking into the Trump-Russia collusion charges.

"They don't want the truth there at the moment. They need an enemy," she said. "Some because they are looking to undermine Trump, some because they want to fuel the conflict with Russia."

The video of the interview can be found here.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: fusiongps; honeypot; robgoldstone; trumpfamily; trumpjr; trumprussia; veselnitskaya
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To: digger48

It would be interesting to find out that the Buses were funding the false dossier, especially in light of the fact that neither George H. W., or George W. did a damn thing about any of the crap spread about them when they were in office.


21 posted on 08/04/2017 4:26:55 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: lewislynn; All

Remember the Never Trumpet confab at St. Simons Island to zero in on who was the original money for Fusion GPS


22 posted on 08/04/2017 4:37:51 PM PDT by mazda77
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To: Fedora

“fateful meeting” —??????????

WHAT fateful meeting?

the meeting was a complete worthless dud, by all reports

nothing illegal happened

“fateful”????? who writes these silly biased headlines anyway?


23 posted on 08/04/2017 4:56:42 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicans are not born, they're excreted." -- Marcus Tillius Cicero)
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To: jonrick46

[This is what they call a police state and all those involved need prison time.]

Nailed it.

This is weaponizing the surveillance state.


24 posted on 08/04/2017 7:07:29 PM PDT by headstamp 2 (Ignorance is reparable, stupid is forever)
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To: faithhopecharity

Written by LIB lunatics .


25 posted on 08/04/2017 7:46:37 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation camp?)
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To: Fedora

why has she not been called to testify? and why hasn’t Dellums been called to testify since he was escorting girlygirl around town for months?


26 posted on 08/05/2017 1:11:58 AM PDT by blueplum ( ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017))
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To: Fedora

Is it possible Rob Goldstone dangled a promise of Clinton info via email in order to get Trump, Jr. to agree to the meeting, while telling Veselnitskaya the meeting was going to be about the Magnitsky Act?

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smells kinda like that to me, too, fedora.

looks like a set up


27 posted on 08/05/2017 6:08:06 AM PDT by thinden
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To: thinden

bookmark


28 posted on 08/05/2017 7:18:27 AM PDT by japaneseghost
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To: Fedora

I’d not place any trust in anything Russian media has to say.

Mueller should still be brought to heel.


29 posted on 08/05/2017 8:25:59 AM PDT by JamesP81 (The DNC poses a greater threat to my liberty than terrorists, China, and Russia. Combined.)
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To: Parley Baer

She’s actually not even a lawyer; something the media continues to get wrong because they just carry it over from other stories. Nothing about her is honest. She was merely attempting to lobby for both Prevezon and repeal of the Magnitsky Act. She had several similar meetings during her trip to the U.S., which also included viewing of an anti-Magnitsky documentary at the Newseum. She’s an opportunist and in no way is connected to any high level in the Russian government. She’s the Russian version of Carter Page.


30 posted on 08/05/2017 1:08:25 PM PDT by lazlohollyfeld
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To: JamesP81

No doubt the Russian media is more truthful than the Western media. In a truth telling contest I would vote Russian over our lying scum.


31 posted on 08/07/2017 12:55:25 PM PDT by arrogantsob (Check out "CHAOS AND MAYHEM" at Amazon.com)
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