Posted on 07/14/2017 5:15:41 AM PDT by Pinkbell
(Currently Breaking News On NBC)
WASHINGTON — The Russian lawyer who met with the Trump team after a promise of compromising material on Hillary Clinton was accompanied by a Russian-American lobbyist — a former Soviet counter intelligence officer who is suspected by some U.S. officials of having ongoing ties to Russian intelligence, NBC News has learned.
NBC News is not naming the lobbyist, who denies any current ties to Russian spy agencies. He accompanied the lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya, to the June 2016 meeting at Trump Tower attended by Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner and Paul Manafort.
The Russian-born American lobbyist served in the Soviet military and emigrated to the U.S., where he holds dual citizenship.
Veselnitskaya acknowledged to NBC News that she was accompanied by at least one other man, though she declined to identify him.
The presence at the meeting of a Russian-American with suspected intelligence ties is likely to be of interest to special counsel Robert Mueller and the House and Senate panels investigating the Russian election interference campaign.
Contacted by NBC News, representatives for Kushner and Manafort declined to comment. A lawyer for Trump Jr. did not respond to multiple requests for comment.
Veselnitskaya, in an exclusive interview with NBC News, denied having any connection to the Kremlin and insisted the meeting was to discuss sanctions, not the presidential campaign.
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THe fun thing about the mcCarthy comparison is that liberals are convinced that Joe was wrong in every way possible. So when you say we are dealing with a new McCarthyism, they become terribly conflicted.
It’s why I bring it up.
Yes, McCarthy was right, but libs refuse to believe that, so using that label on them does its job - and makes the point that some of them get.
i.e. either McCarthy was right, or they are wrong today. Now, thinking people (i.e. conservatives) know that it is much more nuanced than that, but the left has a hard time with nuance.
Fair enough.
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