Analysis | Donald Trump Jr.s stunningly incriminating statement to the New York Times
They quoted Don Jr. statement in the article:
In a statement on Sunday, Donald Trump Jr. said he had met with the Russian lawyer at the request of an acquaintance. After pleasantries were exchanged, he said, the woman stated that she had information that individuals connected to Russia were funding the Democratic National Committee and supporting Ms. Clinton. Her statements were vague, ambiguous and made no sense. No details or supporting information was provided or even offered. It quickly became clear that she had no meaningful information.
He said she then turned the conversation to adoption of Russian children and the Magnitsky Act, an American law that blacklists suspected Russian human rights abusers. The law so enraged President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia that he retaliated by halting American adoptions of Russian children.
It became clear to me that this was the true agenda all along and that the claims of potentially helpful information were a pretext for the meeting, Mr. Trump said.
Read that last part again: the claims of potentially helpful information were a pretext for the meeting.
Trump Jr. confirmed that he went into the meeting expecting to receive information from the Russian lawyer that could hurt Clinton. That is a breathtaking admission.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/analysis-donald-trump-jr%e2%80%99s-stunningly-incriminating-statement-to-the-new-york-times/ar-BBE6FSO?ocid=spartanntp
The left believes this could be concrete evidence of collusion because if Don Jr. was willing to meet with a Russian to get info damaging to Hillary, then who is to say that other members of Trump's team didn't meet with Russians to obtain info damaging to Hillary including colluding to hack the emails?
Don Jr. is saying that he was told that she had info that Russians were funding the DNC and Clinton campaign, but she provided no evidence. That would not necessarily be surprising to me because of Hillary's ties to Russia. In the post below, I'll link to blogpost I put together detailing Hillary's ties to Russia.
That said, I wonder what "acquaintance" decided to have them meet with this woman. Based on Don Jr.'s statement, it sounds like perhaps she used the line about info regarding Hillary and the Russians to get in the door to discuss the Magnitsky Act. Someone should have checked into this woman before meeting with her as her history does not appear to be of someone who would betray the Kremlin if they were working with Hillary and tell Trump's campaign:
The adoption impasse is a frequently used talking point for opponents of the Magnitsky Act. Ms. Veselnitskayas campaign against the law has also included attempts to discredit the man after whom it was named, Sergei L. Magnitsky, a lawyer and auditor who died in mysterious circumstances in a Russian prison in 2009 after exposing one of the biggest corruption scandals during Mr. Putins rule.
Ms. Veselnitskayas clients include state-owned businesses and a senior government officials son, whose company was under investigation in the United States at the time of the meeting. Her activities and associations had previously drawn the attention of the F.B.I., according to a former senior law enforcement official.
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Ms. Veselnitskaya is a formidable operator with a history of pushing the Kremlins agenda. Most notable is her campaign against the Magnitsky Act, which provoked a Cold War-style, tit-for-tat dispute with the Kremlin when President Barack Obama signed it into law in 2012.
She says Kushner and Manafort were only there for 10 minutes, and there is certainly no proof from the meeting that any collusion occurred and certainly no proof this had anything to do with the email hacks and she wasn't there on Kremlin orders, but the left will use it to say that if they were willing to meet with Russians once to get info on Hillary (even though this info was said to be info about the Russians helping Hillary), then they could certainly do it again to collude on hacking emails. The Washington Post article proves it.
Hillary’s ties to Russia. Don’t just bring up Uranium to the liberals (way more ties than that):
https://dtforpres.blogspot.com/2016/09/hillary-clinton-and-democrats-have.html
What will they do when this falls flat, too?
Is Trump’s son a member of the White House staff or a private citizen?
They were set up with help from Fusion GPS.
It is way past time for the FBI to investigate Fusion GPS.
Wake up Jeff Sessions and do your job better.
Another thread different source .....
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3567960/posts
Donald Trump Jr. gathered members of campaign for meeting with Russian lawyer before election
So what?
“according to three advisers”
HAHAHAHA
They know that everyone is on to their #FAKENEWS using Mr. Anonymous Sources.
So they are now changing it from Anonymous Sources to “Advisors.”
Too funny!
I know the failing NYT needs to generate headlines but how long will they keep flogging this dead horse ?
If opposition research is a crime the entire DNC would be in prison.
You really can’t assume there is anything credible to this story. But for the sake of argument, what if it’s 100% true? It’s completely meaningless.
It was a "breathtaking" admission???!!! What imbecilic snowflakes. Are we to believe that all of the DNC and Clinton camp wouldn't have (and probably DID) jump at the chance for some/any OPRES on Trump? Should we forget all about the phony Steele, Christian Steele, British spy dossier they were all giddy about? If this is the worst thing they can find after all this time and resources, Trump has NOTHING to worry about - not that he is, of course.
They really have to keep reaching further and further to make something out of this Russian Collusion nothingburger.
Notice the NYT’s sleight of hand? Notice the conflation? It’s no longer whether Trump himself colluded. It’s no longer whether his campaign colluded with the hackers of the DNC or Podesta to commit a CRIME.
Now the goalposts have moved so much as not to even be in the same stadium. Now it’s did ANYONE connected with Trump ever meet with ANYONE having ANYTHING now or ever to do with Russia for ANY PURPOSE WHATSOEVER even if legal.
What is the crime here? How many countless millions did Hillary accept in foreign donations from foreign governments in anticipation of her winning? And we are to believe that they did not try to protect that investment by offering Hillary info on Trump? We will never know because Trump is the only one under investigation. But what is the crime? Since when is opposition research illegal? Accepting the fake Trump dossier from a foreign source was a-ok?
What a coincidence, Trump has a great G-20 and voila and right on cue the NYT is fromt an center with “Russia” once again and with the usual twenty author by line. Color me shocked.
Let’s just say this is all true....the meeting was taken to find damaging information about Clinton and the DNC. So what? That would make every conversation or meeting a journalist has with a source collusion, as well. Besides, he received no such information and offered nothing in return but the opportunity to hear what had to be said. I’m personally sick of the phrase ‘nothingburger,’ but that’s exactly what this is and it’s smothered in another hackneyed phrase, ‘weak sauce.’
http://redstatewatcher.com/article.asp?id=85936
Breaking: The Attorney Who Met With Trump Jr. Has Just Been Exposed!! Look Who She Works For!!!!
The attorney who met with Trump Jr. is reportedly a Russian Soros operative who works for Fusion GPS the DNC retained firm.
Jackposo.wixsite.com reported:
Today, the NY Times and others are running wild with the story that Natalia Veselnitskaya met with Donald Trump Jr, Paul Manafort, and Jared Kushner during the campaign.
The meeting took place in June 2016 when Veselnitskaya requested the meeting, claiming evidence of Russian collusion with Hillary Clinton and the DNC. After the meeting began, she changed the subject to adopting Russian children. After 20 minutes, Donald Trump Jr left the meeting.
While the mainstream media is focusing on the fact that the meeting took place with a Russian and insinuating that a 20 minute meeting constitutes collusion, burgeoning on racism, there is a deeper story.
Veselnitskaya was a Soros operative.
A spokesman for President Trumps legal team stated We have learned that the person who sought the meeting is associated with Fusion GPS, a firm which according to public reports, was retained by Democratic operatives to develop opposition research on the President and which commissioned the phony Steele dossier. “
While Fusion GPS refuses to name the “mysterious wealthy donor” who paid for the phony Steele dossier, numerous media reports have accused George Soros of backing the company.
Washington national security sources assess this meeting was likely another “dirty trick” attempt by Soros and Fusion GPS to create a false narrative of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.
Soros is well-known for his opposition to President Trump, and funds the international terrorist organization Antifa.
At this time, George Soros has not responded for comment on his backing of international terrorism.
Read story @ (Link: jackposo.wixsite.com)
The press is desperate to score a somethingburger.
If so, the NY Times is likely working off a Sig-Int transcript that has the US citizen names unmasked rather than 'sources' inside the Trump campaign.
Remember that former Obama staffer Elaine Farkas stated there were sources and methods of information gathering that they didn't want Trump to know about...this may be one of them.
The NYT is selling cotton candy as red meat.
The Slimes must be slipping.Usually when they post cr@p like this they make reference to "twenty five unnamed sources" rather than just the piddling five they mention here.
Kushner only recently disclosed the meeting, though not its content, in confidential government documents described to The New York Times.
One or more of Mueler’s Hillary-sycophant lawyers is leaking confidential info.