Here’s the Memo the Kremlin-Linked Lawyer Took to the Meeting With Donald Trump Jr.

Foreign Policy ^ | 10/16/2017 | Elias Groll

[ForYourChildren]

No dirt on Clinton, a passing mention of adoptions, and a lot on Bill Browder and the Magnitsky Act.

Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya arrived at a June 2016 meeting with Donald Trump Jr. armed with a set of talking points arguing American officials were hoodwinked into slapping human rights sanctions on Russia in 2012 and that efforts to expand those measures would hurt relations between Washington and Moscow.

According to her talking points, obtained by Foreign Policy, Veselnitskaya made the case that the American businessman Bill Browder perpetrated a massive scheme of tax fraud against the Russian state and then launched a global campaign claiming that his companies had in fact been defrauded by Russian officials — and that they had killed the lawyer Sergei Magnitsky in order to cover it up.

That June 2016 meeting has landed in the crosshairs of investigators examining whether aides to Donald Trump conspired with Kremlin operatives in their alleged effort to boost the real estate mogul’s campaign by hacking into Democratic Party computer systems and leaking stolen documents online.

White House senior advisor Jared Kushner and then-Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort also attended the meeting with the Kremlin-connected lawyer Veselnitskaya, who brought with her a Russian-American lobbyist, Rinat Akhmetshin, with ties to Russian intelligence. The meeting was organized with the help of Rob Goldstone, a British publicist, who emailed Trump Jr. ahead of the gathering to tell him that his Russian contacts were in possession of “sensitive information” supplied by the Kremlin on Democratic rival Hillary Clinton.

“If it’s what you say I love it,” Trump Jr. wrote back.

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[ForYourChildren]

Here is the Daily Caller article using this article as first reference:

http://dailycaller.com/2017/10/16/the-memo-that-a-russian-lawyer-took-to-the-trump-tower-meeting-has-finally-been-released/

Someone will probably post this separately.

[ForYourChildren]

Here is your copy of the memo:

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4108458-Talking-Points-Memo

[ForYourChildren]

“As for who researched and wrote Veselnitskaya’s memo, Akhmetshin said in an interview with the Financial Times last month that the Russian attorney wrote it with the help of a private corporate intelligence firm.”

[Sacajaweau]

She’s a lobbyist who was lobbying. Where’s the problem?

[Lisbon1940]

Browder could be the key to this whole thing.

[catnipman]

no memos to or from Don jr, though. just russians to russians, and suddenly the enemedia expects us to believe everything they say and do is gospel IF it seems negative against trump.

if one looks at a more balanced article, it was clear that don jr. was duped into this meeting, being told that the russians had dirt on hillary, but the russians lied. hard to believe russians would lie, right?

[catnipman]

btw, “foreign policy” is a rabidly anti-trump site. they publish nothing but a stream of articles attacking trump and have zero credibility.

[ForYourChildren]

“btw, “foreign policy” is a rabidly anti-trump site. they publish nothing but a stream of articles attacking trump and have zero credibility.”

Thanks for that info. I am not familiar with them.

That is why I posted the Daily Caller article also.

[Chewbarkah]

“Akhmetshin said in an interview with the Financial Times last month that the Russian attorney wrote it with the help of a private corporate intelligence firm.”

Could that private corporate intelligence firm be ... GPS Fusion? The identity is critical to exposing the whole set up. Some reporter needs to ask since Mr. Mueller likely will not.

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

Who in the Obama admin approved Velnetskaya’s entry into the US withouut a valid visa?

[DoughtyOne]

Here's a long article touching on the issue.LINK

Be aware:

iCBS!

[DoughtyOne]

Of possible interest, since you were pinged on the issue.

See post this responds to.

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

The U.S. attorney's office for the Southern District of New York granted Veselnitskaya immigration parole in October 2015, setting an expiration date of January 7, 2016, DOJ attorneys later told the court. On January 4, Veselnitskaya's request to extend her parole was denied, according to a declaration filed in U.S. District Court on January 5.2016.

....The Justice Department did not immediately respond to questions about whether Veselnitskaya was granted immigration parole after January 14 and, if not, how she was permitted entrance to the U.S. for the meeting in Trump Tower.

I doubt that US customs would allow her to enter the US without a valid visa or permission from above. The article you linked asks "why?" My question is "who?"

[DoughtyOne]

Good question, and I’m not sure we’ll every know the exact person.

We know whose watch it was on. He set up the government to operate like that.

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

I would be surprised if Mueller asked either question.

[DoughtyOne]

Yes, I would be shocked as well.

He’s not interested in anything other than taking Trump down.

If he can’t achieve that, he’ll settle for attacking his family and doing as much harm as he can there.

[ColdOne]

Yes of interest! Thanks!

[DoughtyOne]

“:^)

[GOPJ]

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4108458-Talking-Points-Memo

“ZIFF Brothers Fund” ?

Yep it has the ‘Russian Feel’ to it...

Badly written.

The right way: First tell people WHAT you’re going to them them. Then tell them WHY you’re telling them. Then TELL THEM.

Thenu tell them WHAT you told them. Then summarize all of the above.

The Russian Way is to tell in excruciating detail massive quantities of date putting everyone to sleep - while wondering ‘what the hell are they talking about’... and why should I care...