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.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
There’s enough dirt on the Dems to fill in the oceans.
For later reading.
The most interesting part of the Hannity interview was when he asked Trump Jr. if he has turned everything over to anyone investigating the matter. Trump’s answer — he said he “will” turn it over — made it sound like nobody has ever asked him for it. LOL.
Hopefully Trump Tower cameras and logs will reveal the correct info. But give them plenty of rope to “reveal” all their nefarious allegations and then publish the tapes and logs. Set them up.
He’s a spook. Their job is to lie.
Good request. I don’t think credibility is with the lobbyist. If info was delivered, and oppo research is sought by all, why wasn’t it used? The polls showed Teump in arrears. Logic tells me info would have been used early and often after both nominations.
Gwjack
This is now pretty much confirmed as a Clinton dirty trick entrapment to get the Trump Campaign working with them to manufacture “collusion” charges and justify FISA spying and unmasking
This is probably the reason why the originally denied FISA request was finally granted
Hopefully there is a documented record of the meeting listing an attendee named “John Miller.” LOL.
My guess is they figured that damaging information about corruption at the DNC wouldn’t have gotten much attention at all. In fact, it wouldn’t even be considered NEWS to most people.
Exactly. Why would we believe a Russian operative when our panties are in a bunch about collusion and we, as in Dems, are calling them the enemy?
SSSOOOOOOO was this illegal? NO its not. Lets focus on illegal stuff....like comey and his memo’s he gave to be leaked that included classified info. O maybe Seth Rich’s murder...or perhaps Debbie Wasserman Shultz felonious election rigging. Where is Sessions???? Ohh, thts right..he thinks Lowrenta Lynch is a nice person. If that MFer doesn’t wake up and do something, they will remake the video game “wheres Mario” with his name.
So why all the pearl clutching?
Super powers are allowing the Trumps to escape. CNN is calling for all kryptonite that available to be brought to the Washington Post office.
I don’t believe this.
The story keeps changing after the fact.
Thank you. Dirt on opposition is always welcome. Just ask John McCaIn.
If the information in this article is accurate then there were two named Russians in the room ... the lawyer/lobbyist and the dual citizen who may have been a Soviet spy. The two media accounts of the meeting that have the most discrepancies between them are her NBC interview and his statements cited here in this article. Their accounts of what happened are so different that I’m wondering if they’re even talking about the same meeting!
My two questions:
Did Trump Tower security cameras show this guy arriving and leaving?
Does he still have a copy of the “dirt” that he’s willing to make public to prove that he had something back then?
I will not take this guy’s word as truth. I want to see the evidence to back the veracity of his claim. And if these points have already been made up-thread, please feel free to disregard my post.
Lies. I don’t even pay attention to this garbage anymore, and I’ll wager most people don’t. either.
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My thought, too. Who cares what any of these people say about anything? We can’t believe a word any RAT says about anything, or anything the media reports they said, or anything the media says about ANYTHING, for that matter.
These days, I believe President Trump’s tweets (even if I don’t always think they’re a good idea). Everything else is just meaningless noise.
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