Does this mean Vlad is ready to toss Don the Con under the bus? I hope so.
I think the meeting was in June, 2016, and the date is important… Before it Donald Senior promised to release damaging information on Hillary Clinton "in two weeks>’ Well, ithat never happened. We know now that when Donald Senior says “in two weeks” he means never, and when he ways “very shortly” he means never. But times lines for all of the Russian-Trump meetings are important.
I think I’ll wait for Mueller’s transcript of the meeting to figure out what happened, but thanks for playing.
I’ll wait for Seth Abrahamson to produce the pee tape.
Agalarov’s lawyer Scott Balber told the Washington Post he was releasing the email to support Agalarov’s claim that the meeting was not part of a Russian effort to elect Trump Jr.’s father as president.
Sorry, that’s not how evidence works. If Agalarov released all of his emails to and from Trump people and any intermediaries, and all internal emails relating to his dealings actual and prospective with the Trump campaign and Trump organization, then we might have something to go on. You can’t cherry-pick.
I guess that’s settled, then. As @j.dave posted above, let’s see what Mueller has to say about it.
Putin is smart enough to realize that there is such thing as over-fucking your enemies…
Outstanding “handler” technique, demonstrating why the Russians are world leaders in managing betrayal. Even though in reality Junior had no say in anything, his Russian counterparts confected a passable simulation of mutual respect.
Of course, it helped that they were dealing with a congenital idiot whose eyes were totally blinded by greed.
Top marks nonetheless.
Interesting that it just now shows up. Probably took the guys in St Petersburg a while to plant everything and embed the “evidence” in server logs, etc. I have serious doubts that this is anything other than a fake, but the slavering base will eat it with whipped cream on top.
Putin’s favorite quote, attributed to Lenin:
“Probe with bayonets. If you encounter mush, proceed; if you encounter steel, withdraw.”
In a July interview with the Associated Press, the lobbyist said that Veselnitskaya brought a folder to the meeting containing documents detailing what she claimed was the flow of illicit funds to the Democratic National Committee.
“This could be a good issue to expose how the DNC is accepting bad money,” she said, according to Akhmetshin.
When you point a finger at someone, four others are pointing right back at you, darlink.
She right, there is nothing shady BEHIND the meeting. It was pretty much all up front.
T rump is pretty clueless on this front. That man-child simply can’t fuck enough.
So we’re just accepting the submissions of Russian foreign agents unreservedly now?
Amazing.
In other words, nothing shady happened at the meeting that we lured Trump Jr. to with promises of shady dealing.
Hmmm. Something about “oligarch’s lawyer” that doesn’t add up.
This meeting was essentially about assessing the level of interest Trump’s campaign had in playing footsies with Russia. So while there’s probably enough rope to claim the meeting was held for innocuous purposes, we know the real reason. And they got the message from Jr., Manafort, and Kushner loud and clear.
Yeah - nothing shady at all about that meeting which is why they all lied about it at least 3 times publicly.
Next they’ll release an email mentioning “I’ll be bringing some Russian tea as a gift for the campaign…” as “evidence” that the meeting was actually about tea.