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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBoom: Talking Points Brought to Trump Tower Meeting Were Shared With Kremlin
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/10/27/us/politics/trump-tower-veselnitskaya-russia.html?_r=0&referer=Natalia V. Veselnitskaya arrived at a meeting at Trump Tower in June 2016 hoping to interest top Trump campaign officials in the contents of a memo she believed contained information damaging to the Democratic Party and, by extension, Hillary Clinton. The material was the fruit of her research as a private lawyer, she has repeatedly said, and any suggestion that she was acting at the Kremlins behest that day is anti-Russia hysteria.
But interviews and records show that in the months before the meeting, Ms. Veselnitskaya had discussed the allegations with one of Russias most powerful officials, the prosecutor general, Yuri Y. Chaika. And the memo she brought with her closely followed a document that Mr. Chaikas office had given to an American congressman two months earlier, incorporating some paragraphs verbatim.
The coordination between the Trump Tower visitor and the Russian prosecutor general undercuts Ms. Veselnitskayas account that she was a purely independent actor when she sat down with Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner, the presidents son-in-law, and Paul J. Manafort, then the Trump campaign chairman. It also suggests that emails from an intermediary to the younger Mr. Trump promising that Ms. Veselnitskaya would arrive with information from Russian prosecutors were rooted at least partly in fact not mere puffery, as the presidents son later said.
In the past week, Ms. Veselnitskayas allegations that major Democratic donors were guilty of financial fraud and tax evasion have been embraced at the highest levels of the Russian government. President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia repeated her charges at length last week at an annual conference of Western academics. A state-run television network recently made them the subject of two special reports, featuring interviews with Ms. Veselnitskaya and Mr. Chaika.
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Boom: Talking Points Brought to Trump Tower Meeting Were Shared With Kremlin (Original Post)
deminks
Oct 2017
OP
If it looks like collusion, walks like collusion, and quacks like collusion, then...
malchickiwick
Oct 2017
#4
triron
(22,025 posts)1. kick for visibility
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)2. Drip, drip, splash, splash, Tsunami .....
It's almost Mueller time!
Botany
(70,594 posts)3. From DUer fleur-de-lisa
Tea Pain @TeaPainUSA
1. No contact with Russia
2. Contact but no collusion
3. Collusion but I didn't know
4. Hillary did it!
malchickiwick
(1,474 posts)4. If it looks like collusion, walks like collusion, and quacks like collusion, then...
... it is most definitely collusion.
Lock up Liddle Donnie Bone-Spur!!