I always figured Manafort always knew what was going on (the approach, as it were) and that Junior and Kush were just too dumb to know that they were supposed to talk Magnitsky in order actually get the dirt that Putinâs lawyer was peddling.
That sounds about right. Itâs a test to see how sophisticated you are, whether you know how the game is played. I mention adoptions, you mention the innocents hurt by the sanctions, and so the dance goes. This is why they were making overtures to a number of peopleâto find who was best to work with. We all do it. So Manafort was up to speed, Flynn figured it out, others I canât think of at the moment.
Clowns and grifters, the lot of them.
So the Trumpâs and their pals were indignant that a hostile country did not have illegal info for them? Knowing the Trumpâs theyâll claim that makes the meeting legal. Its not a criminal plot if it doesnât work.
So Junior and Kushner were irked by lack of Clinton dirt. Conversely, prosecutors in two districts and the Special Counsels office are irked by the endless sleaze of everyone associated with Spanky and his gang. âThere is no bottom to this,â they probably say. And theyâre right.
The grifting TRUssiaâs wanted their criminal information from a hostile country for free.
Well, the release of all these transcripts and documents today TOTALLY exonerates the president, his campaign, his familia and the 1919 Chicago White Sox players.
Time to wrap up the Mueller investigation.
(If Trump and Rudy and Pence and the other bootlickers try much shit tomorrow for the anniversary of the appointment of the special counsel, as has been reported they might ⌠Iâd say a few well-placed indictment un-sealings would be an appropriate response - although, Iâm not sure Mueller would agree. I just like the idea of a smack down.)
The thought of pissy little Jared becoming irritated is almost comical.
There is zero, zip, zilch chance Dotard Trump didnât know about this meeting with his campaign manager and children involved.
At some point, and I would say that point is now, any right wing Fox or Breitbart hack or âTrump supporterâ who claims there is no evidence of interaction with the Russians is lying, ignorant or stupid. They need to be called out in real time.
Trump worked with the Russians against the United States to get elected, period.
âI did all this light treason and I didnât get a single scrap of meat out of it! Unfair! Unfair!â
Sad.
The only thing missing is Chris Hanson coming out of an adjacent room and saying to Jared, Don Jr. and Manafort âNo, thereâs no dirt on Hillary here but you are and the fact is thatâs why youâre here talking to a foreign intermediary trying to swing a federal election which is, by the way, a felony.â The fact they may not have actually received any âdirtâ on Clinton is beside the point.
As reported in todayâs Guardian, the Trumpistas sent a contemporary request to the Russians to coordinate their story so it backed Fredo Sr. (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/may/16/trump-russia-investigation-donald-trump-jr-senate-testimony)
Whatever weâre now being told about that meeting may have nothing to do with what went down. That would be in keeping with the substance of whatâs in Manafortâs notes (eg, references to Browder and his GOP connections.) That would probably have been as alien to Don Jr. and Kushner as the Magnitsky Act, so there irritation may not have been misreported. What it was about (the quid,) however, may well be.
Great work, Caitlin, as always.
ButâŚ
First graf and next-to-last graf:
uninterested
not disinterested
Disinterested is something very different from uninterested, so itâs not just a picky mistake, it actually distorts your meaning.
Sounds plausible, except for the fact that there probably wasnât any dirt to begin with because Hillary is way more above board than they wanted to accept.
Behind the scenes of Americaâs foremost crime family with their corruption exposed.
Set up, set up, set up. Couldnât happen to more deserving people.
I think at that point the Russians had already hacked the DNC emails, and were shopping them to the trump team, for a price, of course.
It sounds as if the Russians were trying to couch everything in carefully coded phrases, knowing it was all being recorded. It flew right over the heads of Butthead and Dumbass, who most likely were completely unaware of the Magnitsky Act, or the context of repealing it and voiding the sanctions. Manafort knew, but had his own plots cooking.
Veselnitskaya was probably saying to herself, âAre these jackasses really this dumb?â and repeated the pitch, which could not take root in the thin soil of the moronsâ brains.
Jared and Donnie Jr wanted dirt on Clinton, and itâs becoming obvious they thought it would just be handed to them as a big favor. They were repeatedly told by the other hangers-on that Russia fully supported trump, so naturally they would get this dirt for free, right?
Itâs a great plot for Inspector Clouseau.