Breaking: Trump Jr lied to Sean Hannity

[_Kevin Graham]

In his interview with Hannity, Trump Jr was asked if he had ever met with ANY other Russians at ANY TIME and he said no.

But now we find out that in his meeting with the Russian Lawyer, in attendance was a former Soviet Counter Intelligence officer and current lobbyist for Putin.

Former Soviet Counter Intelligence Officer at Meeting With Donald Trump Jr. and Russian Lawyer

MSNBC is reporting that there was likely a sixth person at that meeting.

Now remember, this meeting was held in a room one floor beneath Trump's office on a day Trump was in the building.

Those in attendance were:

1. Donald Trump Jr. - The President's son and advisor
2. Jared Kushner - Senior White House advisor and son-in law to the President
3. Paul Manafort - The President's campaign manager
4. Natalia Veselnitskaya - Russian Attorney
5. Rinat Akhmetshin Russian-American lobbyist
6. ??

And we're supposed to believe that this was some inconsequential meeting and that President Trump had no knowledge of any of this?

Here is a timeline of how crap went down last summer... (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/12/us/p ... eting.html)

June 3, 2016

Donald Trump Jr. received an email from Rob Goldstone, a former Russian business partner to his Father. He said he had been contacted by a senior Russian government official and was offering to provide the Trump campaign with dirt on Hillary Clinton. He said he has documents that “would incriminate Hillary and her dealings with Russia and would be very useful to your father,” and added, “This is obviously very high level and sensitive information but is part of Russia and its government’s support for Mr. Trump.”

Mr. Trump replied with interest 17 minutes later. “If it’s what you say I love it especially later in the summer,” he wrote.


June 7

After several more emails, Mr. Trump and Mr. Goldstone agreed to a meeting at Trump Tower on the afternoon of June 9 with what Mr. Goldstone described as a “Russian government attorney who is flying over from Moscow.” Mr. Trump said he would probably be joined by Paul J. Manafort, the campaign chairman, and Jared Kushner, his brother-in-law, who would later become a White House senior adviser. That same evening Donald Trump Sr. said, “I am going to give a major speech on probably Monday of next week, and we’re going to be discussing all of the things that have taken place with the Clintons.”

June 9

Donald Trump Jr., Mr. Manafort and Mr. Kushner met with Natalia Veselnitskaya, a Russian lawyer who, contrary to Mr. Goldstone’s email, did not openly work for the state but was a former prosecutor with deep connections to the Russian government and a history of arguing for Russian interests.

June 13

Mr. Trump, the candidate, ended up not giving the “major speech” about Mrs. Clinton’s dealings with Russia and other countries, despite his promise.

June 15

A hacker calling himself Guccifer 2.0 posted opposition research and donor documents stolen from the Democratic National Committee. A cybersecurity firm that investigated the breach concluded that Russia was behind it. “Too bad the D.N.C. doesn’t hack Crooked Hillary’s 33,000 missing emails,” Mr. Trump, the candidate, said in a statement.

July 22

The activist group WikiLeaks posted nearly 20,000 emails from senior Democratic National Committee officials. Intelligence officials have said that the emails were taken from the party’s computer system by Russian hackers.

July 24

In an interview on CNN, Donald Trump Jr. dismissed Democratic suggestions that the Russians were trying to hurt Mrs. Clinton and help his father. “It’s disgusting,” he said. “It’s so phony.” He added: “I can’t think of bigger lies. But that exactly goes to show you what the D.N.C. and what the Clinton camp will do. They will lie and do anything to win.”

July 27

The elder Mr. Trump publicly dared Russia to hack Mrs. Clinton’s emails. “Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing,” he said. “I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press.” Advisers later said he was only joking.

[_moksha]

Pretty sure it was Hannity's intention to help promote a coverup story.

[_EAllusion]

The Russian lobbyist in question is specifically a former intelligence officer who now lobbies against US sanctions of Russia.

[_moksha]

[_Some Schmo]

Breaking: Trump Jr lied to Sean Hannity

LOL

I know what you meant, but it struck me funny that Jr lying about this meeting would be breaking news to anyone.

[_The CCC]

It just gets better and better.

[_Doctor CamNC4Me]

This Russian thing is our generation's Watergate. We need a new 'gate' name for this one. Any ideas? I'm calling it the Matryoshkagate since Russian nested dolls somehow seem like an appropriate metaphor.

- Doc

[_Some Schmo]

This Russian thing is our generation's Watergate. We need a new 'gate' name for this one. Any ideas?

Campaign Surrogate.

[_Quasimodo]

This Russian thing is our generation's Watergate. We need a new 'gate' name for this one. Any ideas?

Campaign Surrogate.

Perfect!

[_subgenius]

This Russian thing is our generation's Watergate. We need a new 'gate' name for this one. Any ideas? I'm calling it the Matryoshkagate since Russian nested dolls somehow seem like an appropriate metaphor.

- Doc

naw, this is more akin to inflate-gate, or maybe more accurately:
AisaGate...you remember that correct?

"The Washington Post reported in 1998, "Evidence gathered in federal surveillance intercepts has indicated that the Chinese government planned to increase China's influence in the U.S. political process in 1996."

After Clinton was easily re-elected, the DNC was forced to return more than $2.8 million in illegal or inappropriate donations. Almost 80 percent of that ill-gotten gain came from two foreign nationals John Huang and Charles Yah Lin Trie."

So, yeah kinda like that...but i understand how the butt-hurt fuels your current dream...but this likely to this generation's nothing-gate. Geez you guys are like children

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_Unit ... arlie_Trie