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Everybody Is Forgetting That Clinton Allies Did The Same Thing As Don Jr.
The Daily Caller ^ | 07/10/17 | Peter Hasson

Posted on 07/11/2017 5:08:01 AM PDT by Enlightened1

Many journalists reacted breathlessly to a New York Times report on Sunday revealing that President Trump’s oldest son, Donald Trump Jr., met with a Russian lawyer who indicated she had damaging information about Hillary Clinton.

Donald Jr. admitted to the June 2016 meeting — to which he brought campaign chairman Paul Manafort and Trump adviser Jared Kushner — but downplayed its significance. “Obviously I’m the first person on a campaign to ever take a meeting to hear info about an opponent,” he wrote on Twitter Monday morning, adding that the meeting “went nowhere” but that he “had to listen.”

Many Trump critics claimed that the NYT report supported the theory that members of the Trump campaign were somehow involved in the Russian government’s hacking of Clinton campaign chair John Podesta and the Democratic National Committee.

But Trump Jr., Kushner and Manafort’s lone meeting with the Russian lawyer pales when compared to the coordination between Clinton allies and Ukrainian government officials who hoped to see Clinton win the 2016 election.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: allies; clinton; donjr; hillarycampaign; same; trumpjremails; trumpjrrussia; trumprussia
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To: bert

As long as? The records will be sealed so long that the left won’t have to face the facts till the Books are opened in the Judgment.


21 posted on 07/11/2017 6:29:07 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: junta

Kinda like how the ChiComs protest the loudest about other nations and hegemonies.


22 posted on 07/11/2017 6:31:04 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: Enlightened1

They’re not “forgetting”. They don’t care. Hillary could be caught shooting somebody and these folks wouldn’t care.

...but if somebody they hate meets with a woman, who is Russian, on American soil, well then...it’s a crime!!!! That’s what this amounts to.

What is really, REALLY, disturbing...go and read the comments on related stories at HuffPo. I can laugh at all this as just “media nutjobbery” but these people seriously believe there’s something to it. How do these people function? It’s as though they’ve two brain cells working. It’s no wonder they start shooting up republicans.


23 posted on 07/11/2017 6:41:11 AM PDT by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing consequences of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: Enlightened1

If everyone else jumps off the Empire State Building, does that mean you do it too?

You don’t justify bad behavior by pointing to other bad behavior.

And IF this is true, while the meeting itself could be fairly harmless, accepting information from a hostile foreign power trying to influence the election — not necessarily to elect one candidate or the other, but (as they’ve said themselves) to cause chaos — THAT’S a problem.


24 posted on 07/11/2017 7:49:43 AM PDT by TBP (0bama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: onkelosII
This gambit by Bill Clinton (meddling in a foreign election) got the Russian uranium scheme going. Bill's calculated handshake was a bonanza for the Kazahk president's re-election. Nazarbayev responded in kind and signed-off on the initial phase of the US uranium assets takeover.

Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev greets former
president Clinton (L) in Almaty on September 6, 2005.

NOTE Kazakh is remembered as the last state to peel off from the USSR.

CIRCA 2015 A Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter claims that former President Bill Clinton falsely denied hosting a meeting with Kazakh officials when she tried to write a story that involved his foundation several years ago.

Jo Becker, who works on the newspaper's investigative desk, said Clinton only confirmed the meeting took place after she informed him there were photographs.

Clinton's role in a deal that involved Kazakhstan, the Russian government, and a man (Giustra) who donated millions to the president's charitable foundation were detailed in a story Becker published on Thursday.

That article revisited some of her earlier reporting and included information from the upcoming book "Clinton Cash," which is generating widespread headlines amid a flurry of reports suggesting it will raise serious questions about Clinton's family foundation.

The donor in question is Canadian mining executive Frank Giustra, a longtime friend of the former president who has given tens of millions to the Clinton Foundation in the past few years. (A couple of hours after the NYT story was published, Giustra issued a defiant statement. We've included that below.)

Becker initially wrote about the February 2007 meeting between Clinton, Giustra, and executives from the state-owned nuclear company Kazatomprom in 2008. The gathering took place at Clinton's home in Chappaqua, New York.

"When I first contacted both the Clinton foundation — Mr. Clinton's spokesman — and Mr. Giustra, they denied any such meeting ever took place," Becker recalled in footage aired by Fox News on Thursday. However, Becker said Clinton and Giustra both changed their stories after she confronted them with evidence to the contrary.

"And then when we told them, 'Well we already talked to the head of Kazatomprom, who not only told us all about the meeting, but actually has a picture of him and Bill at the home in Chappaqua, and that he proudly displayed on his office wall.' They then acknowledged that yes, the meeting had taken place," Becker continued in the television interview.

The purpose of the meeting, then Kazatomprom President Moukhtar Dzhakishev told The Times, was to discuss Kazakhstan potentially buying a 10% stake in Westinghouse, a US nuclear company. Becker's 2008 story also noted one of Giustra's companies secured a deal to buy uranium deposits from Kazatomprom in 2005.

That agreement was made after Clinton accompanied Giustra on a trip to Kazakhstan. During the trip, Giustra and Clinton met with Kazakhstan's President Nursultan Nazarbayev.

Clinton issued a public statement praising the Kazakh leader despite his questionable, antidemocratic record. The Times called the praise a "propaganda coup" for Nazarbayev. (he later "won relection" w/ an unbelievable 90% of the vote)

"Just months after the Kazakh pact was finalized, Mr. Clinton's charitable foundation received its own windfall: a $31.3 million donation from Mr. Giustra that had remained a secret until he acknowledged it last month. The gift, combined with Mr. Giustra’s more recent and public pledge to give the William J. Clinton Foundation an additional $100 million, secured Mr. Giustra a place in Mr. Clinton’s inner circle," wrote Becker and another reporter, Don Van Natta.

A spokesperson for the Clinton Giustra Enterprise Partnership told Business Insider they are "working on a formal statement" in response to a request for comment on Thursday. Clinton Giustra Enterprise Partnership is an initiative of the Clinton Foundation that was cofounded by Clinton and Giustra in 2007. A Clinton Foundation spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment.

http://www.businessinsider.com/nyt-reporter-clinton-lied-about-meeting-2015-48/25

25 posted on 07/11/2017 8:24:58 AM PDT by Liz
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To: Enlightened1

Over 100 billion cash to Iran and lied about it.

To me that is a bigger deal.

He put Russia in charge of Syria’s chemical weapons and people died awful deaths as a result.

Is the media on this?


26 posted on 07/11/2017 8:27:22 AM PDT by ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton (Go Egypt on 0bama)
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