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Trump Jr. just defined ‘disgraceful’ (NeverTrumper Barf Alert)
NY Post ^ | July 11, 2017 | John Podhoretz

Posted on 07/12/2017 5:46:20 AM PDT by Oshkalaboomboom

He said, “I love it.”

Yes, upon being informed in June 2016 he might soon be in receipt of information from the Russian government damaging to Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump Jr. responded with the words, “I love it.”

He didn’t call the FBI to say he had evidence the Russian government was seeking to interfere with the presidential election of 2016. No, he said, “I love it” — and set up a meeting with the shady Russian lawyer who, he was told, might share dirt with him.

He didn’t steer the Trump campaign away to shield it from the stain of a potentially scandalous encounter with an operative working for Vladimir Putin. No, Trump Jr. brought the campaign’s chairman, Paul Manafort, and his brother-in-law, Jared Kushner, into the meeting.

Donald Jr. loved it so, you see.

Now, the fact that Donald Jr. “loved” the idea of getting the goods on Hillary Clinton from a foreign antagonist doesn’t suggest anything criminal in itself.

According to the three people who set up the meeting — 1) Trump Jr., 2) a bizarre British publicist named Rob Goldstone and 3) a shady Russian lawyer named Natalia Veselvitskaya — the proceedings ended up centering on Russia’s adoption policy.

So unless they’re dissembling — and they could be — no actual collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russian government took place at the meeting. If they’re not prevaricating, this isn’t the smoking gun that will take down the Trump presidency.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: antitrump; maga; neocons; nevertrump; podhoretz; trumprussia
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To: ilgipper

These people give Don Jr. the impression that they have something he should know about Hillary. Hillary and Bill had many shady dealing with Russia - why on earth would Don Jr. NOT want to know more details? Americans have a right to know what criminal activities the Clintons were orchestrating.

These people then come in and discuss Russian adoption? Sounds like a setup, pure and simple. They just wanted to release the emails when they figured the time was right.


21 posted on 07/12/2017 6:35:38 AM PDT by JudyinCanada
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To: Texas Eagle

you can bet your life Podhoretz and the rest of the FakeNewsMSM know about all the Dem connections that have come out on this story....YET they carry on with a one-dimensional anti-Trump narrative that is utterly trivial and an embarrassment to the journalistic profession.


22 posted on 07/12/2017 6:36:05 AM PDT by MAGAthon
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To: JudyinCanada

“”They just wanted to release the emails when they figured the time was right.””

I thought Don, Jr., released the emails. Heck - I can’t zero in on this especially after last night trying to watch him on Hannity. His manner of speaking with his teeth clenched - AND FAST - is impossible to follow - at least for me. I finally gave up.


23 posted on 07/12/2017 6:50:01 AM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: JudyinCanada

“”They just wanted to release the emails when they figured the time was right.””

I thought Don, Jr., released the emails. Heck - I can’t zero in on this especially after last night trying to watch him on Hannity. His manner of speaking with his teeth clenched - AND FAST - is impossible to follow - at least for me. I finally gave up.


24 posted on 07/12/2017 6:52:33 AM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: Thank You Rush

DARN - posting is bogging down again....hence, the duplicates...


25 posted on 07/12/2017 6:53:26 AM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: Thank You Rush

I assumed he only released them because the contents started coming out from the NYT. Not sure, as I am so sick of hearing about this crap that I have mostly tuned out. I got the impression he only revealed them because someone else was talking about them. Sounded like a setup to me.


26 posted on 07/12/2017 6:53:28 AM PDT by JudyinCanada
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

Those who think Trump Jr. should have not taken the meeting and called the FBI need to see what Hillary did rather than to call the FBI. She held a server with all emails in her house rather than let the government have them. The DNC did not allow the FBI to check their servers. The reality is that nobody who knew the FBI or justice department felt that they were anything but a leaky political machine. You have the head of the justice department meeting with Clinton on a tarmac. The reality that Jr. had no choice but to take the meeting or deny it. But to tell the FBI was not an option. If he did the New York Times headline would have been “unnamed government source confirms Russians trying to colluding with Trump to throw election”.


27 posted on 07/12/2017 6:58:25 AM PDT by poinq
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

Oh no. If Trump has lost the support os a scumbag like Podhoretz, he is done. President Trump is doomed # 3,456.


28 posted on 07/12/2017 7:01:52 AM PDT by jospehm20
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To: Oshkalaboomboom
After knowing what we now know about the political partisanship of the FBI and their willingness to walk away from pursuing criminal charges against Hillary Clinton despite the laundry list of evidence of such crimes presented in public by the FBI director himself ... I'd say anyone who chastises any person for failing to notify the FBI about potential information related to a political campaign is a moron at best and an @sshole at worst.
29 posted on 07/12/2017 7:13:47 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("I was elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris." -- President Trump, 6/1/2017)
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To: JudyinCanada

I have seen reports that Donald Trump Jr. turned the e-mails over to the FBI months ago (maybe last year), but only made them public yesterday when it was being reported that the New York Times had them.


30 posted on 07/12/2017 7:15:31 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("I was elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris." -- President Trump, 6/1/2017)
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To: DoughtyOne

McCain still the Elder Statesman.

I’m so sick of these double-standards and absurdities.


Hilly and Bill get rich off Foundation through state department, not a peep.

Barry O outright lies on “ keep your doctor” not a peep.

No info even turned over, but MSM ignores that. Meeting isn’t even for the purpose originally proposed, lawyer states not affiliated with Kremlin but weasels on nightly news and cable synchro-rats spew their disinformation.

Goebbels would be proud of them...


31 posted on 07/12/2017 7:15:36 AM PDT by patriotspride
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To: poinq
You beat me to it.

If I was in the shoes of Donald Trump Jr. when this all went down last June, I would have proceeded based on the assumption that the leadership of the FBI was a complicit conspirator in any wrongdoing that the Russian contact was claiming to know about.

32 posted on 07/12/2017 7:17:27 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("I was elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris." -- President Trump, 6/1/2017)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

“...from the Russian government ...”

I thought the Brit who was the agent for the girls in the Miss Universe contest was the middleman trying to arrange the interview with the Russian attorney - the Russian government was not mentioned.

Then two weeks later she is photographed at a meeting sitting next at table with Obama’s ambassador to Russia. Could this be an Obama set-up.

I did a search on the woman lawyer and found where she worked for three years in a district prosecutors office upon completion of law school and no other connection to the government.


33 posted on 07/12/2017 7:19:01 AM PDT by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom
Russia 24/7 is sucking the life out of this administration. My head spins with all of this childish behavior. EVERY story I hear has something connected to Trump/Russia.

Is this administration so masochistic to take this day in and day out? At first I thought we were playing "rope-a-dope". Playing defense all the time must be exhausting.

The GOP inexplicably,with few exceptions,will not back the President.

34 posted on 07/12/2017 7:58:23 AM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: patriotspride

I agree with your thoughts.


35 posted on 07/12/2017 8:55:35 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (Fourth estate? Ha! Our media has become the KCOTUS, the Kangaroo Court of the United States.)
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To: patriotspride

Where are the good people, even if only a handful to shame the others on Capital Hill?

Do you see even one? I don’t.


36 posted on 07/12/2017 9:41:29 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (Fourth estate? Ha! Our media has become the KCOTUS, the Kangaroo Court of the United States.)
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To: mac_truck
Try expressing yourself better to avoid common misunderstandings.

Oh I expressed myself well enough since it instantly generated the appropriate level of outrage. It's just folks who are outraged and misplace the target of their outrage because they don't think.

37 posted on 07/13/2017 7:22:33 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: AndyJackson

38 posted on 07/13/2017 7:58:05 AM PDT by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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