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.
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...
It’s probably the “intermediary” that apologized to Donald Trump Jr., as they were leaving the meeting, for wasting his time.
My auto correct isnt allowing it
R i n a t
We got a name yet who this latest clown is? I heard we don’t know but heard it from a guy who knows someone who also knows someone who said he was. LoL.
If we find out who this supposed “Russian intelligence operative,” I bet he it cavorts with Democrats.
O’Keefe should tie Russians meeting with Demrats. It’s no doubt a target rich environment.
O'Keefe should send his undercover team of cameras to see the Russians mingling with Democrats and if they have security clearances all the better. Oh look look Duh Drats are treasonous! It would blow up this stupid show by the idiot media.
Rinat Akhmetshin
Is the Establishment Media really this corrupt and stupid?
Do ANY of them KNOW what a “counter intelligence officer” is?
What a complete NON story.
No actually it isn’t. All this does is keep the DNC drones, and their slavish lap dogs the Never Trumpers, in daily hysterics. No one cares about any of this outside the DC clown posse.
It actually very counterproductive of the DC Establishment. They not “Getting Trump” they merely keeping his voters enraged and engaged. It a daily reminder of just why they for Trump in the 1st place
Yeah some here don't realize it... it can get complicated for some remembering it all for those who have very extensive histories.
Kushner who is a big successful businessman in his own right, could have met countless number of foreigners over the years, and he now has got to remember everyone who was who? That's not realistic. If he had a crystal ball years ago showing him getting a security clearance working in the White House, he may have thought to keep a huge logbook LoL.
Looks like that name says RAT. That figures. Heh.
No he didn’t
So you you never trumper are stooping to the gutter slime tactics of manufacturing supposed “facts” now?
Are you all really this stupid? You really have NO clue at all what a “Counter intelligence officer” does?
This is a manufacture bit of media nonsense that is relevant to no one but the whiner choir still crying because Trump won.
Sitting here and with my own paperwork no longer impt because I’m retired, I’d have to do extensive research to come up with the first 2 addresses I ever lived at. Parents are very old and minds no longer there. Aunts uncles all deceased. I’m not sure I could even find it. It’s not as easy as some think.
Do I remember every credit card I ever had? No way.
I had a ton of German acquaintances from tours in that country. No way I’d remember them all.
“Rinat Akhmetshin”
Fusion GP all the way.
Q: What's wrong WITH A PRIVATE CITIZEN MEETING WITH A RUSSIAN?
A: NOTHING!
Team Trump needs to apply the rule of law and go after Clinton, Obama, Lynch, Comey, Susan Rice, John Brennan, Cheryl Mills, Bryan 'NO SHOW' Pagliano, Lois Lerner, John Koskinen, etc..
And Congress needs to open a serious investigation into the murder of Seth Rich.
Rinat Akhmetshin works for Fusin GP, you know Hillary’s opposition research outfit, the people that bought you the ‘Piss Dossier’, in fact Rinat Akhmetshin was involved in that himself.
Ivan has been making allies of democrats since 1917.
And, imho, many of those democrats committed treason.
Too bad that all of them are not dead yet.
5.56mm
I type faster then I think....Fusion GP
Dems have gone too far.
So the MSM has lowered the bar again.
* First looking for collusion with the Russian government
* Next looking for collusion with a Russian lawyer
* Now looking for collusion with an American who was a Russian
What’s left?
Is the Establishment Media really this corrupt and stupid?
Do ANY of them KNOW what a “counter intelligence officer” is?
Q1: Yes
Q2: No, but it has the word “Russian” in it so it’s “bad”.
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