Call me stunned? Donnie in conflict with reality / calenderâs / recorded evidence, etcâŚ
We have more dirt on Hillary Clinton - just wait a week!
(Iâve got a secret!!!)
He knew about the meeting the day it happened. Trump is dissembling to cover his ample ass. Don Jr., Jared and Manafort all know when he was informed. Jared and Manafort will be looking out for themselves. It is hard to know what Don Jr. will do.
They (all the Trumps and all their defenders), need to come up with a better defence than âThe meeting didnât last long, and we didnât get the promised dirt anywayâ. If you commit an illegal act, but donât materially gain from said act, that doesnât mean it wasnât illegal. If I walk into a convenience store, stick a gun in the clerks face and demand they empty the till, only to discover the till is already empty because the store got robbed a few minutes before, Iâve still committed a crime, no matter how fast I haul ass out of there.
âI think it was Don, Jared and Paul that took that meeting with the lawyer representing the Russian government. But I also think it could have been a lot of other people taking a lot of other meetings with lawyers, maybe other professions, maybe doctors, maybe pharmacists, representing other governments, and maybe not governments. It could have been a 400 pound guy meeting with a mattress salesman, or a lot of mattress salesmen. Nobody really knows for sure.â
Precedent Trump
He knew about the meeting several days before it was held, I E as soon as the email request was received.
Iâm sure he was only told it was about adoption. Thatâs probably a hot-button issue for DJTJR, since he was the family troublemaker, and Trump probably threatened to put him up for adoption many times. But this time he probably means it.
Right, because he announced BEFORE THE MEETING that he would soon be announcing some good dirt on Hillary, probably on June 13th.
The June 9th meeting proved unproductive of good dirt, however, so that promise wasnât kept.
But he knew about the meeting and its purpose ahead of time.
The absolutely amazing thing about this story that everyone seems to be forgetting is that the person WASNâT FROM THE RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT and moreover DIDNT HAVE ANY DIRT TO GIVE ON HILLARY.
This whole story is evidence of NON-collusion.
Either unproductive, or it was decided to go with a WikiLeaks release to avoid incrimination.
Silly libs ⌠The Trump Disorganization has perfected time travel
Oh, and donât feed the you-know-whos
His long standing conflict with the English language will never be resolved. What he says he said to Poot at the G20
I told him. I said, look, we canât â we canât have â now, he said absolutely not twice. What do you do? End up in a fistfight with somebody, okay? Because then I brought up Syria, and I said â
I had to stop reading that piece - it was giving me such a headache.
NYT has the entire transcript of the conversation between him and the press pool reporters on Air Force One. It is sickening. He knows nothing, he blusters his way through questions, itâs word salad but on a damaging level, not a laughable one like Palinâs was.
Once a friend of a friend was working on prosecuting some brokers for insider trading (in addition to what what then one of the larger brokerage frauds to be discovered). Their defense was that theyâd lost roughly $200 mil trading on the ostensible inside information, so it couldnât possibly have been of value. (They then proceeded to steal that money from their clientsâ accounts before the firm went belly up.)
OT, Tea Pain has more info, that I just had to share with you wise TPMers.
Representatives of Donald Trump Jr. and Mr. Kushner confirmed the meeting after The Times approached them with information about it.
They will claim that Trump first heard about it when the Times approached them with information ab out it, before they published the first story.
But it is worth remembering that there is zero reason to take any of these pathological liars word about any aspect of the meeting. When the knew of it, What went on during it, and what came from it.
Everyone involved has massively large reasons to lie about it, and that includes the Russians.
Exactly.
I canât believe if am quoting Krauthammer, but he said it pretty well the other day:
âIf you get a call to go to a certain place in the middle of the night to pick up stolen goods and it turns out the stolen goods donât show up, but the cops show up, I think youâre going to have a very weak story saying, âWell, I got swindled here.â Look this is incompetence, they got swindled.â
or maybe at the meeting they decided to wait until later in the summer to spill the dirt.