Posted on 07/14/2017 6:53:17 PM PDT by Pinkbell
Donald Trump Jr faced damaging new claims on Friday that he lied about his meeting with a Russian lawyer, as an ex-Soviet intelligence officer revealed he was there too and claimed a trove of claims about Democrats and 'bad money' was handed over.
Russian-American lobbyist Rinat Akhmetshin - who U.S. intelligence think may still be a spy - told the Associated Press that he was part of the Trump Tower meeting with Don Jr.
Don Jr brought Jared Kushner, his brother-in-law who is now one of President Donald Trump's , and Paul Manafort, then the campaign chairman. But on Friday Akhmetshin and other sources revealed stunning new details about the meeting which put Don Jr on the ropes.
Akmetshin's disclosure of being there blew apart Don Jr's claim on Tuesday to have told 'everything' there was to say about the meeting - because the president's son had only admitted to the presence of Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya.
Then Akhmetshin, a former Soviet military intelligence officer, piled on the pressure with a bombshell claim that Veselnitskaya had brought a plastic folder full of printed documents which contained claims of the Democratic National Committee receiving dirty Russian money.
That directly contradicted Don Jr's account that no information had been received from the visiting Russians. Don Jr was uncharacteristically silent on twitter as disclosure followed disclosure.
In contrast his brother-in-law Jared Kushner was grinning and relaxed as he and his wife Ivanka mingled with media moguls at Sun Valley in Idaho.
Democrats are beginning to seize on the claims with Bernie Sanders telling an Associated Press reporter: 'These are very, very, very serious allegations.'
He added that there should not be a rush to judgment. The most damage of the day was done to Don Jr's credibility.
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Unless, of course, they say something damaging about Trump.
But why would a Russia spook supposedly helping Trump's campaign in 2016 now want to damage Trump?
The contradictions and stupidity of the MSM. They burn.
I wish dems and the media would see just how ridiculous all this is. It’s too bad you got caught up in it as well.
On one hand when it comes to President Trump, we are not supposed to trust the Russians.
Then when it comes to this Russian lady and this alleged Russian spy, we’re supposed to trust the Russians. All this, of course, according to the insane left and its mentally disordered media.
The whole left and the media is drowning in stupidity, don’t get caught up in that.
CGato
All of the above.
Pearls...where did I leave my pearls??? Oh, I think I’m getting the vapours.
Bingo! Don Jr. is a natural, would win any race he ran for so they're turning their guns on him.
Biggest problem I see is that their unrelenting offensive does win battles, Sessions recusal, Flynn, a couple of people nominated for cabinet positions run off.
Whole damn media should be brought up on charges of sedition. They're actively trying to subvert the U.S. President.
>Is everybody missing the fact that there is evidence the DNC was getting illegal donations?
This guy is Fusion GPS. Anything he presented was fake.
Russian roulette with all chambers empty in the revolver. FAKE bullet points are not resonating in the republic. Zero drama...queens. 2-D chessboard pawns.
That’s my question. Why was this supposed spy given citizenship? Why was this woman who is supposedly a Russian agent allowed in by Lynch? Then you look at the ties to Fusion who wrote the Trump dossier. It’s all so odd.
Because the liberals are looking to remove Trump from office over it, and it’s very important that we know what they are saying and counter it. People have already been finding interesting things by looking into these people such as a link to Fusion.
We may need a lawyer to sort this out, but I think there was only one Russian. If the spy has dual citizenship he is an American.
I hope it’s wrong. The media tells us not to trust the Russians and that the Russians provide false info, but of course now they trust them.
Even if the material exists, that doesn’t mean it was given to DJT Jr.
Everyone is running around as if their hair is on fire. No one is thinking...this who issue was laid out for all to see, months ago.
“Akhmetshin went on saying Donald Trump Jr asked Veselnitskaya if she had all the proof in the information she was delivering.
She replied that the Trump campaign would have to do some digging itself.
After that, Akhmetshin told the AP, Donald Trump lost interest. ‘They couldn’t wait for the meeting to end,’ the Russian-American lobbyist said. “
From this, it appears that DT Jr. did NOT receive information. He rejected it as unsubstantiated. He rejected it as fake news.
If Trump Jr. testifies before Congress, it could be another Olie North-like situation: a young, vulnerable, good-looking guy against a bunch of creeps out to destroy him. Regarding this report, he needs to say something like, “I refused to take seriously any unproven reports against Mrs. Clinton. If those out to destroy my father showed as much respect for my family as we did for Mrs. Clinton, we would not be here, today.”
Yeppers.... That's exactly what's going on.!
What looks like The dimocraps on the offense is actually the other way around.. Dimocraps playing hard defense, smoke screens being put up everywhere you look..
President Trump needs to keep turning up the heat and sooner or later the lid is going to blow..!! Corruption and treason on a scale that's going to SHOCK America back to founding princables.... I sure hope so anyway....
“’Won’t end well’ could just as easily be interpreted as Comey, Lynch, Wasserman-Schultz et al. going to jail.”
That’s definitely NOT what he meant. If the clip is available online, check it out; it has to be seen in context and with facial expressions. It won’t end well — for Trump and us.
What a tangled web we weave....(She and Bubba personally wrote off $1 mil to the Foundation).
They conned him and he conned them. And both got nothing in the end.
The spider in the corner....Manafort. That's who I want to hear from.
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