The New York Times lights a fuse...
Pipe-bomb
President Trump’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., was promised damaging information about Hillary Clinton before agreeing to meet with a Kremlin-connected Russian lawyer during the 2016 campaign, according to three advisers to the White House briefed on the meeting and two others with knowledge of it.
The meeting was also attended by his campaign chairman at the time, Paul J. Manafort, and his son-in-law, Jared Kushner. Mr. Manafort and Mr. Kushner only recently disclosed the meeting, though not its content, in confidential government documents described to The New York Times.
Now, to be fair, the Trump Team's account of the meeting is slightly different. Well, it's actually NOT different, they admit to most of it, but defend themselves by adding:
After pleasantries were exchanged, the woman stated that she had information that individuals connected to Russia were funding the Democratic National Committee and supporting Ms. Clinton. Her statements were vague, ambiguous and made no sense. No details or supporting information was provided or even offered. It quickly became clear that she had no meaningful information.
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It became clear to me that [repealing the Magnitsky Act] was the true agenda all along and that the claims of potentially helpful information were a pretext for the meeting.
Nevertheless, this is big for three reasons:
1. This was not reported by anyone on applications for security clearance until recently (when Kushner updated his application a couple weeks ago).
2. This is the first time that we have a reported, detailed meeting between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin for purposes of collusion to influence the election.
3. While what was discussed at the meeting is in dispute, it is not in dispute that the meeting arose because the Trump Campaign wanted to obtain damaging information on Secretary Clinton (illegally hacked by the Russian Military apparatus) from a Kremlin agent. At the very least, high-ranking members of the Trump campaign were open to collusion with a foreign power to help elect Casino Mussolini.
ETA- Oh, and in other news, Trump discussed forming a cyber-security task force with Putin for purposes of ensuring our elections are safe. I don't know whether I should be flippant and add that it is akin to a fox guarding a hen-house or serious and point out Russia has a history of using apps, games, and other innocuous coding to trojan-horse malware and spyware into computers of unsuspecting users.
The New York Times lights a fuse...Pipe-bombHoly fucking donkey balls!
WASHINGTON — Before arranging a meeting with a Kremlin-connected Russian lawyer he believed would offer him compromising information about Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump Jr. was informed in an email that the material was part of a Russian government effort to aid his father’s candidacy, according to three people with knowledge of the email.
So, Not-Eric walked into the meeting with the Russian Agent with knowledge that the source of the information was the Russian government, and that the Russian government wanted to give him this information to help his daddy become president. To be fair, before the story broke, Not-Eric did the smart thing and lawyered up:
Alan Futerfas, the lawyer for the younger Mr. Trump, said his client had done nothing wrong but pledged to work with investigators if contacted.
And it gets a little bit more interesting. Mr. Goldstone set up the meeting on behalf of a client. His client just so happens to be a wannabe,
big-spender pop-star from Russia named Emin Agalarov. Sorry, wrong video: easy mistake, Russia is in a deep recession, it could happen to anyone. Thanks Obama.
Here's a video of Emin. If you made it past 1:14, you're stronger than I am.
Now, this pop-singer is the son of billionaire Russian real-estate developer, Aras Agalarov. Aras Agalarov is nicknamed the Donald Trump of Russia because he dabbles in real-estate, puts his name on things, ? ? ?, and gets money. The cozy connections to Putin don't hurt either. Turns out, having the state murder your business competition is a great way to corner the market.
Mr. Goldstone represents the Russian pop star Emin Agalarov, whose father was President Trump’s business partner in bringing the Miss Universe pageant to Moscow in 2013. In an interview Monday, Mr. Goldstone said he was asked by Mr. Agalarov to set up the meeting with Donald Trump Jr. and the Russian lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya.
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In the interview, he said it was his understanding that Ms. Veselnitskaya was simply a “private citizen” for whom Mr. Agalarov wanted to do a favor. He also said he did not know whether Mr. Agalarov’s father, Aras Agalarov, a Moscow real estate tycoon known to be close to President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, was involved.
Anyways, the funny thing about this family is that Aras Agalarov co-sponsered the 2013 Miss Universe Pageant in Moscow with Donny Boy. One of the little perks of doing so was that Miss Universe would appear in his talentless son's music video, seen
here. They worked out the details for the music video at the
Moscow Ritz Carlton in late 2013. The Moscow Ritz Carlton in late 2013 might sound familiar, because that is when and where Putin supposedly got the pee-pee tape on Donny.
The Queen- You think I got $4.50 up in quarters on me well I fucking don't!
