Posted on 04/21/2019 2:51:33 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Buried in special counsel Robert Mueller's 400-plus page report is the question of whether then-president-elect Donald Trump attended a 2016 championship chess tournament — an event that came under scrutiny as Mueller probed possible collusion between Trump's orbit and the Russian government.
Although Trump said he did not attend the event, he told Mueller in written answers that he became "aware of documents indicating" that then-president of the World Chess Federation (FIDE) Kirsan Ilyumzhinov — a sanctioned Russian power player — invited the Trump Organization in March 2016 to host the tournament at Trump Tower.
"I do not remember having been asked to attend the World Chess Championship gala, and I did not attend the event," Trump told Mueller. "During the course of preparing to respond to these questions, I have become aware of documents indicating that in March of 2016, the president of the World Chess Federation invited the Trump Organization to host, at Trump Tower, the 2016 World Chess Championship Match to be held in New York in November 2016."
"I have also become aware that in November 2016, there were press inquiries to my staff regarding whether I had plans to attend the tournament, which was not being held at Trump Tower," he continued. "I understand these documents have already been provided to you."
Mueller reported that the tournament, which featured a Russian grandmaster chess player and took place just after the 2016 election, was attended by the likes of Dmitry Peskov, Russian President Vladimir Putin's press secretary, and Kirill Dmitriev, CEO of the Russian sovereign wealth fund.
Dmitriev flew to New York for the event and invited George Nader, a Middle Eastern businessman who was questioned by Mueller for meetings with Trump allies, to join him for the...
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Mueller: grasping at king-sized straws.
This one is right up there with the jokes about the President seen eating Russian salad dressing.
The very definition of witch Hunt if you ask me
WOW, NBC, THAT’S QUITE A BOMBSHELL...RUN WITH IT, you raving lunatics.
This is it! We got the Orange bastard now!!
This is it! We got the Orange bastard now!!
And how is any of this illegal? Did Trump ever put Russian dressing on his salad and did he disclose that?
Imagine finding Russians at a chess match.
You think this stuff comes from the Onion, and then you find out it’s real.
+1
5.56mm
President Trump has a cell phone. Russians have cell phones. Better investigate that. Thanks E. Pluribus Unum.
Obama speaks in Europe and then the Notre Dame Cathedral burns up Hmmmm
Russians were there! At a chess tournament!! Just goes to show you what a witch-hunt it was from the very beginning.
Mueller say anything about Trump eating Russian Dressing ?
You can't mock this kind of Stupid. It's transcendent.
Isn’t Russian dressing kind of orange looking?! There’s the proof you poof!
[Imagine finding Russians at a chess match.]
That truly is an intelligence coup!
NBC always has the hard-hitting facts!!!
or collusion
or obstruction
so democrats are going after 'jay walking while rude'....
P> When democrats say 'shovel ready jobs, them mean 'more programs for their dependent base'... They hate the middle class - behind our backs they still call us deplorables.
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