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kpete

(71,994 posts)
Tue Jul 11, 2017, 09:13 AM Jul 2017

Russian lawyer: Trump campaign approached her about getting dirt on Hillary-not the other way around

A Russian lawyer tells NBC’s “Today” show that she was summoned to Trump Tower during last year’s presidential campaign to meet with Donald Trump Jr. and asked if she had information on the Clinton campaign. The lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya, told NBC she received a phone call from a man she didn’t know and was told to meet with the Trump campaign. She says she didn’t have information on the Clinton campaign and has never worked for the Russian government.

NBC’s “Today” and MSNBC aired an interview of the lawyer on Tuesday. It’s her first public comment since Donald Trump Jr. acknowledged that he made time for the meeting hoping to get information on Clinton, his father’s Democratic presidential opponent.

Veselnitskaya says Jared Kushner, Donald Trump’s son-in-law, attended the meeting but left after a few minutes. Paul Manafort, then Trump’s campaign chairman, also attended but never participated and spent much of the meeting on his phone. It wasn’t clear from the NBC report who in the meeting asked her for information.

On Clinton, she says through a translator: “It’s quite possible they were looking for information. They wanted it so badly.”


https://apnews.com/8286ce4e36df4f73954a447f3dad4500?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=AP





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Russian lawyer: Trump campaign approached her about getting dirt on Hillary-not the other way around (Original Post) kpete Jul 2017 OP
Watch you back Natalia; Putin ain't going to like what you just revealed! Chasstev365 Jul 2017 #1
Holy future "accidental" deaths Batman! nt Guy Whitey Corngood Jul 2017 #2
Exactly what I was thinking bitterross Jul 2017 #11
Suicide.. jimmil Jul 2017 #19
Maybe Putin is sending Trump a message. Demtexan Jul 2017 #3
My first thought as well Bob Loblaw Jul 2017 #30
Yes, that would be my take on it Hekate Jul 2017 #32
Trump went over the top meeting with Putin. Demtexan Jul 2017 #33
Maybe we are seeing the tables begin to turn.... ALBliberal Jul 2017 #4
Maybe they can afford to lose 45 because they have just as much on Pence. redstatebluegirl Jul 2017 #27
Ya hadn't thought about that. Another thought I have is they feel Trump is just way way to obviously ALBliberal Jul 2017 #31
She gets a phone call from a stranger, and just shows up for a meeting with a pack of Leghorn21 Jul 2017 #5
Yep, fails the sniff test pretty thoroughly! Pacifist Patriot Jul 2017 #7
The only thing we can be absolutely sure about luvtheGWN Jul 2017 #18
OMG, I'm going to need a LOL transfusion pretty soon. tanyev Jul 2017 #6
May or may not be true, but the point is made that the Trump wiggs Jul 2017 #8
Read an article on NBC about her interview. Don't trust her at all Roland99 Jul 2017 #9
If Natalia Veselnitskaya is in the states she better in touch w/Mueller about .... Botany Jul 2017 #10
A fucking soap opera thbobby Jul 2017 #12
Don't trust this source Raven123 Jul 2017 #13
I agree True_Blue Jul 2017 #20
And I agree too. Trump/team lie so much, and Putin/team lie as well. Wait on Mueller iluvtennis Jul 2017 #25
She is has fought hard AGAINST human rights. We were warned by a lawyer who was mucifer Jul 2017 #26
It just keeps getting better and better for the GOP. Toilet. Flush. L. Coyote Jul 2017 #14
Six stories now. 4 public and those 4 don't match. Bernardo de La Paz Jul 2017 #15
I see defenestration volstork Jul 2017 #16
meanwhile in the swamp they are trying to get 2 key homeland security officials confirmed KRISITNA Jul 2017 #17
It is beginning to sound more-and-more like Don Jr.* is being... Raster Jul 2017 #21
So the Trump team just called random Russian lawyers NobodyHere Jul 2017 #22
Trump Tower. Xolodno Jul 2017 #23
I don't think it matters much who called whom... Wounded Bear Jul 2017 #24
Seems they were all old pals C_U_L8R Jul 2017 #28
+1 dalton99a Jul 2017 #34
republican lies all over the freaking place Achilleaze Jul 2017 #29
 

bitterross

(4,066 posts)
11. Exactly what I was thinking
Tue Jul 11, 2017, 10:29 AM
Jul 2017

She better be careful about where her food comes from. Along with not flying in small planes, etc.

ALBliberal

(2,342 posts)
4. Maybe we are seeing the tables begin to turn....
Tue Jul 11, 2017, 09:24 AM
Jul 2017

Perhaps Trump and his minions will get a taste of their own medicine as Moscow turns on them. Always hard to know the Soviets motives.
Either way this is excellent payback for the administration trusting the Soviets.

ALBliberal

(2,342 posts)
31. Ya hadn't thought about that. Another thought I have is they feel Trump is just way way to obviously
Tue Jul 11, 2017, 12:08 PM
Jul 2017

Compliant subservient acquiescence corruptible... Maybe they hoped for a president that was at least somewhat less transparent with the treason. Maybe even the Russians have a bit of pride when it comes to the subjects they blackmail. Maybe they want to at least keep up the pretenses of adversarial relations. When Trump started treating them better than Canada England and Australia they may have realized he was going way overboard.


Leghorn21

(13,524 posts)
5. She gets a phone call from a stranger, and just shows up for a meeting with a pack of
Tue Jul 11, 2017, 09:25 AM
Jul 2017

strangers? Is that something a sharp, high-powered lawyer does?

"she received a phone call from a man she didn’t know and was told to meet with the Trump campaign."

Well, alrighty then

luvtheGWN

(1,336 posts)
18. The only thing we can be absolutely sure about
Tue Jul 11, 2017, 11:07 AM
Jul 2017

is that BOTH parties (Trump and the Russians) are telling lies. As my Mom used to say "Don't worry dear, it'll all come out in the wash".

wiggs

(7,814 posts)
8. May or may not be true, but the point is made that the Trump
Tue Jul 11, 2017, 10:21 AM
Jul 2017

regime is compromised. She can fill in a few more details, true or not, and Jr goes to jail.

Anyone who knows of any of the many Trump shady deals, unseemly meetings, half-illegal moves, campaign misbehavior, vacations with putins daughter, etc has power over this administration unlike anything we've seen before.

The most controllable, compromised, unethical family in the US is in the WH.

Roland99

(53,342 posts)
9. Read an article on NBC about her interview. Don't trust her at all
Tue Jul 11, 2017, 10:21 AM
Jul 2017

Her answers and statements came off, to me, as self-serving and not credible

Seems like she's hiding something, herself.

Botany

(70,510 posts)
10. If Natalia Veselnitskaya is in the states she better in touch w/Mueller about ....
Tue Jul 11, 2017, 10:27 AM
Jul 2017

.... the witness protection program.

She and Rob Goldstone better watch their backs. The Russian mob/Putin
doesn't play around.

thbobby

(1,474 posts)
12. A fucking soap opera
Tue Jul 11, 2017, 10:29 AM
Jul 2017

Watching the clustertrump saga unfold is funny, tragic, and ridiculous.

"Like shit through an hourglass. This is the USA president."

She is probably lying. Team clustertrump always lies.

Meanwhile, the real world marches on. Korean ICBM's. Loss of American trade. Laughing stock of the world. Poor people being screwed. Minorities being killed. Everywhere you look, we are being damaged. Our democracy dying.

True_Blue

(3,063 posts)
20. I agree
Tue Jul 11, 2017, 11:14 AM
Jul 2017

I think she is saying exactly what Putin wants her to say. Don Jr has already admitted to the meeting, so there's no denying it now. Her version of the meeting makes it look like it was the Trump team that initially made the contact and not the Russians. Either way it's treason for Trump & Co.

mucifer

(23,547 posts)
26. She is has fought hard AGAINST human rights. We were warned by a lawyer who was
Tue Jul 11, 2017, 11:31 AM
Jul 2017

her adversary last night on Rachel Maddow's show to not believe anything she says.

I'm sure whatever she says is a coming directly from putin.

L. Coyote

(51,129 posts)
14. It just keeps getting better and better for the GOP. Toilet. Flush.
Tue Jul 11, 2017, 10:46 AM
Jul 2017

"Draining the shit." That should be their new motto.

Bernardo de La Paz

(49,002 posts)
15. Six stories now. 4 public and those 4 don't match.
Tue Jul 11, 2017, 10:48 AM
Jul 2017

mini-Trump has two stories, non-matching, and Goldstone and Veselnitskaya have a story each. None of them match.

Kushner and Manafort have not given their stories yet, that we know of. Maybe they've testified to Mueller.

 

KRISITNA

(97 posts)
17. meanwhile in the swamp they are trying to get 2 key homeland security officials confirmed
Tue Jul 11, 2017, 10:54 AM
Jul 2017

Russians need only apply

Raster

(20,998 posts)
21. It is beginning to sound more-and-more like Don Jr.* is being...
Tue Jul 11, 2017, 11:15 AM
Jul 2017

...thrown under the bus to protect Jared*, you know, husband of favorite child*.

Xolodno

(6,395 posts)
23. Trump Tower.
Tue Jul 11, 2017, 11:21 AM
Jul 2017

It was the Trump side that called for the meeting, I think that much is true. Her not being an agent or not being connected to the Kremlin.... that doesn't pass the smell test.

And this doesn't hurt Putin as it does Trump. The story has gone from Russia hacked the election to the Trump team asked for assistance from Russia to hack the election.

Wounded Bear

(58,662 posts)
24. I don't think it matters much who called whom...
Tue Jul 11, 2017, 11:22 AM
Jul 2017

Seeking help from foreign agents is a problem. Potentially a big legal problem.

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