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Former Soviet Counter Intelligence Officer at Meeting With Donald Trump Jr. and Russian Lawyer
NBC News ^ | July 14, 2017 | Ken Dilanian and Natasha Lebedeva

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 ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: 201606; 20160609; akhmetshin; donjr; fakenews; rinatakhmetshin; russia; russialawyer; trump; trumpjrrussia; trumprussia
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To: Pinkbell
Another fmr KGB trying to scam a few bucks off Americans.

Ask McStain about it!

41 posted on 07/14/2017 6:14:00 AM PDT by rawcatslyentist (TETELESTI Read em and weep Lucy! Yer times almost up.)
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To: Alberta's Child
Another possibility from an earlier thread tis AM.

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.

Most of this seems to point directly at FUSION, the president of which has refused to testify before Congress. Senator Grassly is said to have subpoenaed him

42 posted on 07/14/2017 6:14:18 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell (Progressivism is 2 year olds in a poop fight.)
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To: Pinkbell

Rumor is trumps personal lawyer wants to put up wall with kushner about anything to do with investgation

Imo...jr and kushner definitely need that wall..as does trump. They are all adverse parties..dont forget kushner grew up with a father that used a prostitute to blackmail family Members


43 posted on 07/14/2017 6:14:56 AM PDT by RummyChick (can we switch Don,Jr for Prince Kush and his flak jacket. From Yacht Party to Warzone ready to wear.)
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To: Pinkbell

I adopted a child from Russia .... she gets disturbed hearing all this stupid stuff on the news.


44 posted on 07/14/2017 6:15:23 AM PDT by nevermorelenore ( I miss Reagan !)
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To: Pinkbell

Where did they hold this meeting. Everyday more people are said to have been at it. They must have leased Madison Square Garden.


45 posted on 07/14/2017 6:16:52 AM PDT by xkaydet65
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To: Malcolm Reynolds

Except that Trump, Jr. told Hannity no one else was in the room. No one else means no one else doesn’t it. Whether an interpreter, domestic help, spy or whatever.


46 posted on 07/14/2017 6:17:35 AM PDT by joesbucks
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To: Louis Foxwell

There is a very strong need by russia to remove this Act. It could be this was just a bait and switch meeting...dangle emails but get in to talk about Act..even perhaps hoping to get blackmail material


47 posted on 07/14/2017 6:18:57 AM PDT by RummyChick (can we switch Don,Jr for Prince Kush and his flak jacket. From Yacht Party to Warzone ready to wear.)
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To: Hawthorn
Didn't Don Jr. tell Hannity flat out that nobody else was involved in the meeting?

Quite the opposite, in fact.

In the Hannity interview he says the Goldstone dude was there, too ... which is the first time I heard that Goldstone attended the meeting (in addition to just arranging it).

48 posted on 07/14/2017 6:20:24 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: 60Gunner

Pray the full truth comes out - whatever it is.


49 posted on 07/14/2017 6:20:42 AM PDT by Pinkbell (http://dtforpres.blogspot.com/2017/05/tips-for-trump-beating-russia-narrative.html)
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To: Pinkbell

Since the FBI monitors this forum, I want to make a full disclosure: The First lady and I own shares of Gazprom.

There, I said it.

Come and get me G-man.

5.56mm


50 posted on 07/14/2017 6:20:52 AM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: dforest

You are correct. Someone actually said on Twitter that Trump had a successful trip so something was bound to drop. Every. Single. Time.


51 posted on 07/14/2017 6:22:41 AM PDT by Pinkbell (http://dtforpres.blogspot.com/2017/05/tips-for-trump-beating-russia-narrative.html)
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To: joesbucks

Jr is getting screwed over here. Reports are he wanted to tell truth from beginning but WH strong armed into a cover story. A story that blew up.

Kushner threw him under bus.

Dont be surprised if Mother is working behind scenes to protect him.

Kushner and Jr are adverse parties.


52 posted on 07/14/2017 6:22:59 AM PDT by RummyChick (can we switch Don,Jr for Prince Kush and his flak jacket. From Yacht Party to Warzone ready to wear.)
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To: joesbucks
Except that Trump, Jr. told Hannity no one else was in the room.

Please post a link to this information. I just listened to the interview again from start to finish and didn't hear him say any such thing. In fact, this was the first time I learned that Goldstone was in that meeting.

53 posted on 07/14/2017 6:24:13 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: rightwingintelligentsia

Maybe. NBC said Don Jr.’s lawyer said there could have been a sixth person. I would assume that was the translator.


54 posted on 07/14/2017 6:24:30 AM PDT by Pinkbell (http://dtforpres.blogspot.com/2017/05/tips-for-trump-beating-russia-narrative.html)
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To: Pinkbell

This Rinet guy was probably there. The one grassley thinks was a spy.


55 posted on 07/14/2017 6:27:08 AM PDT by RummyChick (can we switch Don,Jr for Prince Kush and his flak jacket. From Yacht Party to Warzone ready to wear.)
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To: Pinkbell
Veselnitskaya acknowledged to NBC News that she was accompanied by at least one other man, though she declined to identify him.

Why didn't he drop the dirt on Clinton? Oh. Right. Because the whole thing was a setup orchestrated by Baraq Ubama and Loretta Lynch.

56 posted on 07/14/2017 6:28:32 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: M Kehoe

Keel moose and squirrel


57 posted on 07/14/2017 6:30:14 AM PDT by Chauncey Gardiner
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To: Pinkbell
Ten bucks says the Senate passes an ObamaCare replacement bill today.

I suspect some of these stories are promoted by the Trump people ... to capture public and media attention while controversial items are addressed in Washington with very little scrutiny.

For example ... the Senate confirmation hearing for Trump's new FBI director hardly got any notice at all the other day when this "Donald Trump Jr. bombshell" was all over the news. After all the drama with his predecessor James Comey, you'd think that should have been the subject of wall-to-wall media coverage. LOL.

58 posted on 07/14/2017 6:32:58 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: Pinkbell

And what happened at that meeting? That is what makes this whole thing a nothingburger. It’s getting kinda funny. :)


59 posted on 07/14/2017 6:34:41 AM PDT by robroys woman
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To: manc

Its just the new McCarthyism. Only this time it really has no teeth.


60 posted on 07/14/2017 6:35:23 AM PDT by robroys woman
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