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Trump Jr. releases email chain on conversations with Russian sources
The Hill ^ | 11 Jul 2017 | JONATHAN EASLEY AND JORDAN FABIAN

Posted on 07/11/2017 10:15:00 AM PDT by mandaladon

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Donald Trump Jr. on Tuesday released a stunning chain of emails detailing his conversations about setting up a campaign meeting with a Russian lawyer who had offered compromising information on Hillary Clinton.

The information “would incriminate Hillary and her dealings with Russia and would be very useful to your father,” reads one of the emails from Rob Goldstone, who acted as an intermediary to set up the meeting.

“This is obviously very high level and sensitive information but is part of Russia and its government's support for Mr. Trump,” wrote Goldstone.

In one of the emails released on Twitter, referring to the information on Clinton, Trump Jr. told Goldstone: “If it's what you say I love it.”

In another email, Goldstone suggested the information about Clinton could be given to then-candidate Donald Trump through Rhona Graff, his longtime aide.

“I can also send this info to your father via Rhona, but it is ultra sensitive so wanted to sent to you first,” Goldstone wrote.

The White House has not responded to the latest disclosure from the president’s son. Spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Monday that Trump only learned of the meeting in the last few days.

She has denied that Trump Jr. colluded with the Russians in any way. American intelligence agencies have determined that Moscow meddled in the 2016 election on Trump’s behalf.

Trump has not commented publicly on the meeting.

Goldstone, a music producer who represents a Russian pop star named Emin Agalarov, has connections to both Russian President Vladimir Putin and President Trump. Agalarov's father was Trump’s partner in bringing the Miss Universe pageant to Russia in 2013.

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KEYWORDS: braking; clinton; donjr; russia; trump; trumpjremails; trumpjrrussia; trumprussia; ukraine
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To: mandaladon

I’m pretty sure the Presidents lawyer Jay Secalow recommended that this news get out now. Get it over with and let the media blow themselves up. It’s a big nothing!


81 posted on 07/11/2017 1:48:54 PM PDT by sissyjane
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To: mandaladon

This sentence copied from the email is a concern in my opinion:

“This is obviously very high level and sensitive information but is part of Russia and its government’s support for Mr. Trump—helped along by Aras and Emin.”

One it sounds like there is potentially more info and additional people implicated.

Impossible for them to say they didn’t know this involved the Russian government.


82 posted on 07/11/2017 2:19:00 PM PDT by maxtheripper
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To: Lisbon1940

Where was the media outrage when Rachel Maddow illegally obtained a copy of President Trump’s tax returns?


83 posted on 07/11/2017 2:26:21 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation ("You can't fix America without pissing off the people who broke it".....Bill Mitchell)
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To: maxtheripper

Doesn’t look matter

It is balderdascious drivel,a futile attempt transmit good from horse shit


84 posted on 07/11/2017 2:26:40 PM PDT by bert (K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column)
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To: NohSpinZone

Big Media was salivating all over my front seat on every radio station today.


85 posted on 07/11/2017 2:39:28 PM PDT by treetopsandroofs (Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
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To: mandaladon

I am trying to think of a crime for this. Acceptance of a solicitation from a third party friend to freely provide negative facts on an opposing candidate to be disclosed by another individual who has no such negative facts and does not provide any in a 15 minute meeting. Seems to me the person showing up for the meeting could have been alleged “Trump cheerleader” Putin himself and we still do not have a crime unless a definitive quid pro quo of government favors can be proven.Oh, that’s right, he was not even an elected official at the time and had no government favors to barter.Wasn’t this called campaign politics in the old days? Is there or was there ever a presidential candidate campaign staff in history that would not take such a meeting including Hillary and Obama? Now all of a sudden the DNC mouthpiece NYT is trying to attach a somethinggate to it.


86 posted on 07/11/2017 3:21:59 PM PDT by chuckee
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To: NohSpinZone

An Obama/McCain setup that Trump Jr. fell for, hook line & sinker. Rob Goldstone is the dirty key turncoat that set this whole charade gig up. The photo of the female lawyer hanging with the Obama ambassador tells the whole story.

Evidently Jared & ManFort smelled the rat. Jared walked out of the meeting right away, and Manfort his head in his cell phone, paying no attention whatsoever to the Obama/McCain scam. The Democrat & Republican Establishment are working to destroy the American Republic and its people!!! Go POTUS, Donald J. Trump....MAGA!!!

Donald Trump, Jr......Beware of the Obama/Democrat wolves dressed in friends clothing!!!


87 posted on 07/11/2017 5:21:16 PM PDT by JLAGRAYFOX (Defeat both the Republican (e) & Democrat (e) political parties....Forever!!!)
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To: NohSpinZone

An Obama/McCain setup that Trump Jr. fell for, hook line & sinker. Rob Goldstone is the dirty key turncoat that set this whole charade gig up. The photo of the female lawyer hanging with the Obama ambassador tells the whole story.

Evidently Jared & ManFort smelled the rat. Jared walked out of the meeting right away, and Manfort his head in his cell phone, paying no attention whatsoever to the Obama/McCain scam. The Democrat & Republican Establishment are working to destroy the American Republic and its people!!! Go POTUS, Donald J. Trump....MAGA!!!

Donald Trump, Jr......Beware of the Obama/Democrat wolves dressed in friends clothing!!!


88 posted on 07/11/2017 5:21:42 PM PDT by JLAGRAYFOX (Defeat both the Republican (e) & Democrat (e) political parties....Forever!!!)
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To: Tennessean4Bush; jstolzen
This is actually good. Another nothing-burger. Over and over again, nothing comes of it. At some point, the media....

It's actually better than the parade of made-up stories by the media. Unhinged Adam Schiff admitted there was no law broken even today (although he left the door open). Then talked about a "pattern". The only pattern was anonymous sources claiming this or that.

Now (as Schiff admitted) we have the first story with evidence from a real source. Thus the pattern has been broken. Either there has to be another Trump Jr meeting or the media is done. More anonymous sources won't cut it.

89 posted on 07/11/2017 5:30:03 PM PDT by palmer (...if we do not have strong families and strong values, then we will be weak and we will not survive)
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To: Voluntaryist

That guy is a drama queen.


90 posted on 07/11/2017 5:34:09 PM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: JLAGRAYFOX
The photo of the female lawyer hanging with the Obama ambassador tells the whole story.

Yes, it shows she was active in Russian lobbying, and connected in various ways to the Obama admin, but I don't think she was a co-conspirator. It was set up, like you said, by Goldstone. The purpose was to put the icing on the Russian collusion cake. Only problem is the cake is stale now and the icing isn't going to help.

91 posted on 07/11/2017 5:55:37 PM PDT by palmer (...if we do not have strong families and strong values, then we will be weak and we will not survive)
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To: NohSpinZone

Well...lookie here....

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2017/07/well-lookie-russian-lawyer-veselnitskaya-pictured-obama-ambassador-russia-8-days-trump-jr-mtg/


92 posted on 07/11/2017 7:47:00 PM PDT by toldyou (Even if the voices aren't real, they have some pretty good ideas.)
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To: mandaladon
I see the media is still flailing and screaming. I'll put this succinctly:

1. Was DJT Jr meeting with this lawyer smart? No.
2. Would I have met with the lawyer? Probably not.
3. Do I give a hoot in hell that he did meet with her? No.
4. Do I think for a minute that the Russian government wanted DJT instead FHRC for president? Hell no.
5. How is this different than what FHRC and the Dems do routinely? It isn't.

That last one is kind of important. Because it is a fact that what DJT Jr did is either OK, or it is not OK. What is not a fact is that it's OK for FHRC and the treasonous left, but not OK for DJT Jr. If their person is allowed to do it, then so is my person. Or if their person is not allowed to do it, then neither is mine. The long and short of that is this: until FHRC, Podesta, and most of DC is under investigation and then imprisoned for the things they've done, then I officially do not care about DJT Jr and the nothing burger meeting with a Russki lawyer. If the Russians really did provide information damaging to FHRC to WikiLeaks or DJT Jr (they didn't, but let's just go over to lib make-believe world where you can pretend, and pretend they did), then I still wouldn't care, because it exposes just how monstrously evil the left really is.

PISS ON THESE PEOPLE. They are now going to receive the same treatment which they have meted out for years. The best political move they could make is to take their lumps, admit wrongdoing, and apologize. Their hubris won't allow this, however, and the more they scream, the stronger we get.
93 posted on 07/11/2017 9:30:20 PM PDT by JamesP81 (The DNC poses a greater threat to my liberty than terrorists, China, and Russia. Combined.)
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To: ForYourChildren; All

The question is, did his lawyer approve this release, or is this the son’s “Twitter style”? Or has staff been too busy trying to keep the President from tweeting to keep an eye on his son? In a few days we will know.


94 posted on 07/12/2017 12:52:02 AM PDT by gleeaikin
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To: The Numbers; goldstategop; All

In fact that is exactly what he failed to do, but subsequently has or is filing an amendment to the application.


95 posted on 07/12/2017 12:57:15 AM PDT by gleeaikin
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To: IC Ken
Hillary was dirty. It’s a wonder more people didn’t try to blackmail her.

And fall victim to SIDS (Sudden Instant Death Syndrome)? That possibility always keeps troublemakers in line.

96 posted on 07/12/2017 1:02:56 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Hillary: Go to jail. Go directly to jail. Do not pass GO. Do not collect 2 billion dollars.)
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To: poinq; PA Engineer; DoughtyOne; All

Putin Russians did not like Bernie the most. Bernie was for Scandinavian style democratic socialism, not the kind that Putin follows that includes murdering reporters who ask questions, possibly blowing up apartment buildings so as to justify war in Chechnia, invading and taking over the Crimea, and trying same in the Ukraine after Ukraine gave up all their atomic weapons. What Scandinavian country has doing anything even remotely like that?


97 posted on 07/12/2017 1:09:09 AM PDT by gleeaikin
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To: poinq
Trump did not know the Russians were the source of the Wiki-Leak emails.

The Russians were not the source of the Wiki-leak e-mails.

98 posted on 07/12/2017 1:43:44 AM PDT by Jess Kitting
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To: poinq
But they can unmask them without going to court.

I don't think so.

99 posted on 07/12/2017 1:46:50 AM PDT by Jess Kitting
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To: mandaladon

From the FEC website:
Foreign national as campaign volunteer
Although he or she may not make contributions or expenditures (including advances of personal funds), an individual who is a foreign national may participate in campaign activities as an uncompensated volunteer. In doing so, the volunteer must be careful not to participate in the decision-making process of the campaign. The Federal Election Campaign Act and Commission regulations specifically prohibit foreign nationals from participating in the decisions of any person involving election-related activity. For example, a foreign national volunteer may attend committee events and campaign strategy meetings, but may not be involved in the management of the committee.


100 posted on 07/12/2017 4:27:32 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi (The largest and most dangerous hate-group in the US is now the Democratic Party)
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