Posted on 07/08/2017 5:13:49 PM PDT by SkyPilot
Shortly before his father was formally nominated for president last summer, Donald Trump Jr. was approached by a Russian lawyer who set up a meeting to discuss a Russian policy, according to interviews with Trump family lawyers.
President Trumps eldest son briefly gathered others for the meeting, including his brother-in-law Jared Kushner, as well as then-presidential campaign manager Paul Manafort for the meeting at Trump Tower in New York City with the lawyer, identified by Trump family lawyers as Natalia Veselnitskaya.
Veselnitskaya used the meeting in June 2016 to have a conversation about a U.S. law called the Magnitsky Act that Russia leader Vladimir Putin reviles and has retaliated against by blocking U.S. adoptions of Russian children.
The encounter was short and the Trump team had no further contact with the woman or the policy issue, lawyers said.
The meeting was recently disclosed to congressional investigators by one of the attendees, according to sources directly familiar with the disclosure.
President Trump was not aware of the meeting and did not attend it, according to the lawyers. A translator and an American businessman working for a pro-Russian business lobby also attended the meeting, which lasted about 20 minutes, according to the interviews.
The presidents legal team said Saturday they believe the entire meeting may have been part of a larger election-year opposition effort aimed at creating the appearance of improper connections between Trump family members and Russia that also included a now-discredited intelligence dossier produced by a former British intelligence agent named Christopher Steele who worked for a U.S. political firm known as Fusion GPS.
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I was about to order one of those “Hot Russian Women Online” but this has all changed my mind. :>)
I had some Russian vodka once.
Well, maybe more than once . . .
“The presidents legal team said Saturday they believe the entire meeting may have been part of a larger election-year opposition effort aimed at creating the appearance of improper connections between Trump family members and Russia...”
That doesn’t make sense.
The question is why would the Russians want Trump
Instead of the communist Clinton.
Implying this was a Hillary stunt
I am inclined to believe it was part of a kremlin move to try to get blackmailable material for future use rather than something to just use for election.
You cant underestimate the connections of felix sater or the fact that he was used as a cia asset .
Mueller is hiring top notch experts in money laundering and rico Investgations.
They aren’t going for russian hacking.
I an frequently ‘rushin’ to work. Slap the cuffs on me...
The problem is not meeting with a Russian, it is meeting with a lawyer. We need to make it a felony for any US citizen to meet with a lawyer, anywhere, any time, any place. That will fix a host of problems.
Why can’t Trump sue Fusion GPS for defamation over its dossier project, and use legal process to compel discovery and production of documents, including who its clients were, what monies it received for what, who it paid, all its correspondence and emails related to the Trump oppo research, etc.? Dirty tricks are not protected “speech”. This project WAS shopped to reporters and politicians with the intent to harm Trump. Now it appears they engineered meetings so they had something to report. Put Trump’s private attorneys on them until they beg for mercy.
Well that’s just crazy!
We had the same Russian Laywer (Sam Bernstein) over the day before to show off our son’s calligraphy skills.
Small world.
the Mass-hysteria Media has been drinking way, way too much Russian vodka
they’re STILL publishing this crazy krap? wow!
This isnt just any ole’ lawyer. NY has been after a company she represents for awhile.
Don jr may have got innocently caught up in an intensive investigation that isnt over in NY
Preet was after them. Mueller just hired one of his top guys
I’ll bet nobody wanted to be sent to that principals office!
Time for US AG Session to send Podesta and Team Hillary to an federal grand jury.
Something is wrong here. Why is Sessions and Trump playing dumb when a real fighter would attack. I’m getting very worried that the DOJ is not much better than the one under King Obama and Trump does not have his eye on the real fight. This lack of fighting may be his downfall. WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?
I think alot of people share your frustration. My hope is that he is busy cleaning house before he starts any investigations. Otherwise, Obama DOJers may ambush his efforts.
Noticed that. Sound more like CLINTON MO
Could be...except notice it didnt come out during campaign from hillary..thus for me..its a kremlin directed move..
This lawyer is deeply connected
Another nothing burger
[My 8th grade German teacher (the principal) was in the Waffen SS.]
So was my neighbor. He worked in the local Grand Union for many years.
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