Posted on 07/14/2017 4:35:57 AM PDT by SJackson
Did the Russian lawyer visit the Trump campaign to undermine it?
It turns out the Moscow-based lawyer whose brief meeting with Trump campaign officials last year was obtained under false pretenses has significant ties to Democrat opposition researchers in the United States and was extended special privileges by the Obama administration.
Could this mean attorney Natalia Veselnitskaya came, or perhaps was sent, to America to hurt Donald Trump’s campaign for president? And if Veselnitskaya had less-than-honorable intentions, what role, if any, did Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the Democratic National Committee play in this unfolding drama?
The Hill newspaper reports that the Obama administration went to extraordinary lengths to allow Veselnitskaya to enter the U.S. and remain here to complete her business in this country. After Veselnitskaya, who reportedly has several pro-Hillary Clinton and anti-Donald Trump items on her Facebook page, was denied a U.S. visa, then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch personally intervened and cleared the way for her to come to this country.
British music publicist Rob Goldstone helped to set up the storied June 9, 2016, meeting at Trump Tower in Manhattan between Veselnitskaya, Donald Trump Jr., then-campaign manager Paul Manafort, and presidential son-in-law Jared Kushner, claiming boastfully in an email exchange with Donald Jr. that the Russians wanted to share incriminating information about Democrat Hillary Clinton.
We now know Veselnitskaya had no earth-shattering revelations to impart about the Russia-friendly former secretary of state who was then running against Donald Trump. Instead of offering “Political Opposition Research” at the roughly 20-minute-long get-together, the Russian woman “had no information to provide and wanted to talk about adoption policy and the Magnitsky Act,” Donald Trump Jr. said earlier this week in a statement on Twitter.
The Magnitsky Act, which Russian President Vladimir Putin despises, allows the U.S. government to refuse visas to Russians considered guilty of human rights violations. After it was enacted at the end of 2012, Russia retaliated by halting American adoptions of Russian orphans and banning entry to Russia by specific U.S. officials.
Veselnitskaya, who was a prosecutor in Russia 16 years ago, told NBC News she “never had any damaging or sensitive information about Hillary Clinton,” adding she wanted to let people know about "the real circumstances behind the Magnitsky Act," and was hoping to testify about the sanctions statute before Congress.
There is some evidence that Democrats were working with Russia against the Trump campaign, radio talk show host Erick Erickson suggests.
“There is a remarkably small degree of separation between Natalia Veselnitskaya and Fusion GPS, the Democrat opposition research firm that came up with the Trump dossier,” Erickson writes, and this “raise[s] the issue of whether Democrats and Russians were as collaborative as the Democrats claim the Trump team was.”
The “piss-gate” dossier is the unvetted 35-page report written by former British spy Christopher Steele and published by cat-video website BuzzFeed. The FBI had been considering paying Steele “for his Trump dossier work,” Erickson notes.
“Fusion GPS was paid by a Democratic ally of Hillary Clinton’s to conduct the research,” the Daily Caller reported. The dubious document claimed, among other things, that Trump hired prostitutes to urinate on a hotel room bed in Moscow.
In 2012, the Russian government hired an army of lobbyists and lawyers to pursue repeal of the Magnitsky Act. One of the law firms retained was Baker Hostetler, which has ties to Fusion GPS. Fusion itself was co-founded by former journalist Glenn Simpson.
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) said Fusion worked on behalf of Russian interests but did not register as a foreign agent as required by federal law. “Fusion GPS was apparently simultaneously working on the unsubstantiated dossier alleging collusion between Trump presidential campaign associates and Russia” while at the same time helping the Russian government with the Magnitsky Act.
In 2013, the U.S. Department of Justice began trying to seize ill-gotten gains possessed by Russian-owned Prevezon Holdings, Grassley explained. Prevezon and the Russian government then began a campaign – in which Fusion GPS participated – to undermine the Magnitsky Act.
Natalia Veselnitskaya also worked for Preveson Holdings, Erickson writes, and, according to Russian media outlet Sputnik News, had “evidence” that could bolster the effort to repeal the Magnitsky Act.
In addition, Veselnitskaya worked with Rinat Akhmetshin, founder of the Human Rights Accountability Global Initiative Foundation, a man who has admitted to previously working as a “Soviet counterintelligence officer,” Erickson writes.
Of Akhmetshin, Grassley said:
In fact, it has been reported that he worked for the GRU and allegedly specializes in “active measures campaigns,” i.e., subversive political influence operations often involving disinformation and propaganda. According to press accounts, Mr. Akhmetshin “is known in foreign policy circles as a key pro-Russian operator,” and Radio Free Europe described him as a “Russian ‘gun-for-hire’ [who] lurks in the shadows of Washington’s lobbying world.” He was even accused in a lawsuit of organizing a scheme to hack the computers of one his client’s adversaries.
Akhmetshin’s group happened to have retained Veselnitskaya as an attorney.
Erickson continues:
While all of this is going on, Fusion GPS is working on the opposition research dossier on Donald Trump using a foreign agent. Are we really supposed to believe that it is completely coincidental that Natalia Veselnitskaya just so happens to be the Russian lawyer who got access to Donald Trump, Jr.? Are we to believe that there is no direct relationship between Veselnitskaya and Fusion GPS?
It is remarkable how she gets a PR agent to urge Trump, Jr. to meet with her by promising Russian information about Hillary Clinton’s emails as the Clinton email server story is blowing up. And then it is remarkable how she gives a perfect performance to NBC News two days ago claiming she only talked with Trump about the Magnitsky Act, but assured the press that the Trump team was hoping for dirt on Hillary.
So many incredible coincidences, if that’s what they are.
With an extensive history of people going against her and winding up dead, I am absolutely amazed that Hitlary didn't have Trump assassinated BEFORE the elections.
She conned her way in ---- dangling a carrot------saying "she had dirt on Hillary."
It's really odd that she would use Hillary as a carrot on a stick-----that she figured there wasn't enough dirt on Hillary----that she had something more damaging than the mountain of dirt out there.
A question un asked but very relevant........ did other Republican candidates get similar setups?
Did any other Republican Presidential campaign get caught in the Honey Pot?
Did the Honey Pot violate any American laws and should she be arrested? She has no diplomatic immunity.
I guess this Akhmetshin is the so-called “fifth person in the room.”
Set up all the way. They used her as the basis of a FISA warrant. Of course Russia wanted Clinton to win because she would reduce the military and do all that green stuff. Russia makes it’s money on black gold (oil) and Trump is doing everything he can to lower the price of oil - not good for Russia. Everyone knew this over a year ago. All this BS going on is really tiring. Why are liberals so stupid? Oh, stupid question is just as bad!
It was a set-up. The dirt is the “something”’and the help with adoptions “for something” in an attempt to establish the appearance of a quid-pro-quo. The best they did was to just walk out.
“”They used her as the basis of a FISA warrant””
I’ve seen or heard references to that in other places but I don’t know what it refers to - is it the one that was requested, turned down and then granted on a second request?
And if so, I’ve forgotten what it was for. So much water over the dam since then - I’m lost...or better yet, drowning!
Yup, the whole thing has been a set up.
The conspiracy is pretty wide ranging and complex scheme and it's bi partisan. It's amazing how well Democrats and Republicans can work together when they want to.
Natalia Veselnitskaya is not a spy by any means. Spies are low key people who crave secrecy and seek to remain in the shadows.
Natalia Veselnitskaya is the opposite .
She one of the international self promoting political grifter class running who spends her days around seeking money, power and position so notoriety and touting to the world her “Who I Know and who knows me “ Rolodex of cronies is her stock in trade.
When one of these types intersects with a major conspiracy, the fallout can be spectacular and it may end up being so for the fake Russia Collusion coup attempt to take down Trump.
She has just provided a critical connect the dots operation on the conspiracy by the political establishment to spy on and frame the President of the United States for treason and remove him from office.
She had done so in official government documents that show her as working as an agent of Fusion GPS to frame and entrap the Trump Campaign using dirty tricks and with the support and collusion of the Preet Bharara and possibly Loretta Lynch.
She represents shady Russian Oligarchs who are tied to the probable murder of a whistle blower on one of their money laundering schemes who were being sued for hundreds of millions of dollars by Preet Bharara, the DOJs U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and she recently got their several hundreds of million dollars case settled out of court for a paltry 6 million dollars cash with no admissions of wrongdoing. This is walking around money pocket cash for he oligarchs she represents
She is a minor player in the Russia affair but she has provided critical links between the Fusion GPS and it's fake dossier on Trump, the Obama DOJ, the Obama State Dept, the Obama FBI, and the Obama intelligence communities illegal spying and unmasking of Trump campaign members and possibly to the Clintons network of shady Russians .
The day after she was exposed as a Fusion GPS agent, it's co founder Glenn R. Simpson, abruptly canceled his scheduled July 19 testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee and he will probably plead the Fifth on Fusions involvement .
The conspiracy is pretty wide ranging and complex scheme and it's bi partisan. It's amazing how well Democrats and Republicans can work together when they want to.
Natalia Veselnitskaya is not a spy by any means. Spies are low key people who crave secrecy and seek to remain anonymous and in the shadows.
Natalia Veselnitskaya is the opposite .
She one of the international self promoting political grifter class who spends her days running around the world seeking money, power and position. Notoriety is her game and touting to the world her “Who I Know and who knows me “ Rolodex of cronies is her stock in trade.
When one of these self promoting grifter types intersects with a major conspiracy and scandal , the fallout can be spectacular and it may end up being so for the fake Russia Collusion coup attempt to take down Trump.
She has just provided a critical connect the dots operation on the conspiracy by the political establishment to spy on and frame the President of the United States for treason and remove him from office.
She had done so in official government documents that show her as working as an agent of Fusion GPS to frame and entrap the Trump Campaign using dirty tricks and with the support and collusion of the Preet Bharara and possibly Loretta Lynch.
She represents shady Russian Oligarchs who are tied to the probable murder of a whistle blower on one of their money laundering schemes who were being sued for hundreds of millions of dollars by Preet Bharara, the DOJs U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and she recently got their several hundreds of million dollars case settled out of court for a paltry 6 million dollars cash with no admissions of wrongdoing. This is walking around money pocket cash for he oligarchs she represents
She may or may not be just a minor player in the Russia affair but she has provided critical links between the Fusion GPS and it's fake dossier on Trump, the Obama DOJ, the Obama State Dept, the Obama FBI, and the Obama intelligence communities illegal spying and unmasking of Trump campaign members and possibly to the Clintons network of shady Russians .
The day after she was exposed as a Fusion GPS agent, it's co founder Glenn R. Simpson, abruptly canceled his scheduled July 19 testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee and he will probably plead the Fifth on Fusions involvement .
Oooohh, counter-psyops. I like it. It’s about time conservatives use the Dems muddy-the-narrative scheme against them.
bttt
It was a set-up for Obama/Brennan/Rhodes to use the NSA to surveil the Trump campaign.
Send in a “known Russian agent,” and as we learned in this whole issue over “unmasking” well, then use that excuse to start monitoring those Americans with whom they meet.
Dems call it “rough and tumble” when they commit crimes in the process of running a campaign.
It seems like Natalia Veselnitskaya did what Anna Chapman was supposed to do— Get into the “system” and manipulate it for the Russian masters.
Natasha is a Russian spy.
I think the Russians wacked poor Seth Rich.
REFERENCE---Then-Pres Obama and his minions started developing the “Russian hacked the election” narrative to give them cover for their blatantly illegal spying on the Trump campaign....... Obama spying on Trump started a year earlier. This is the stuff of third-rate banana republics. Susan Rice, and all concerned, including BO, should be in prison right this minute. (hat tip Junk Silver)
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FROM ONE OF THE MANY EXPOSES---Seeking to retain his position as CIA director under Hillary, Obama-era Brennan at the CIA used phony foreign intel as a pretext for a multi-agency investigation into Trump.....that led the FBI to probe a computer server connected to Trump Tower and gave cover to Susan Rice's sifting operations....
Not only Brennan.... "Susan The Sifter" had a dog in this hunt......Hillary tapped her for Secy of State. One could conclude Comey also had his reasons .....to stay on as FBI director.
Mighty powerful incentives for anti-Trump shenanigans.
.......apparently there are records proving that Obama's CIA director, John Brennan, oversaw repeated spying on the phone calls of President Donald Trump and millions of other private American citizens. An audiotape just released by Federal Judge G. Murray Snow is part of a civil case........
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POINTS TO PONDER Reported elsewhere: the Guccifer 2 files have meta tags that can be shown were originally English, but were deliberately changed into Russian to make it look as if the files went through a Russian computer.
The most plausible theory is these Guccifer 2 leaks not necessarily were damaging but were leaked on purpose by the DNC with fake Russian meta tags so as to use as evidence before a wire tap judge to tap Trump.
Whomever tried the translation from English to Russian screwed-up several times....... and this is how they were outed.
The big political bomb is yet to come.
It will be as yet unreported direct evidence that the Obama administration was working with all these “Russian” interests, using the machinery of the federal government, in an agenda to undermine Trump’s candidacy. They are now all still working on that same agenda, from the outside and from the deep state within the federal bureaucracy. Altogether the Obama-DNC collusion with Russian interests during the campaign constitutes “high crimes and misdemeanors” it now constitutes treason.
Boris did it.
Ask Moose and squirrel
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