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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Mon Nov 27, 2017, 03:34 PM Nov 2017

A key witness in the Russia probe had a 'lengthy conversation' with Trump at Mar-a-Lago


Natasha Bertrand

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Former CIA Director James Woolsey dined with President Donald Trump last weekend at Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida — where, a report said, they had a "lengthy conversation" at the main dining table surrounded by several of Trump's friends, associates, and political allies.

A tipster told Politico's Playbook about the conversation, which raised eyebrows given Woolsey's centrality to the special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Michael Flynn, the former national security adviser.

Woolsey, who served on the board of Flynn's lobbying firm, Flynn Intel Group, was at a meeting on September 19, 2016, with Flynn and Turkish government ministers in which they discussed removing the controversial Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen from US soil, Woolsey has said.

Woolsey apparently notified Vice President Joe Biden through a mutual friend about the meeting, which he thought could have been an illegal discussion, Woolsey's spokesman, Jonathan Franks, said earlier this year.

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A key witness in the Russia probe had a 'lengthy conversation' with Trump at Mar-a-Lago (Original Post) DonViejo Nov 2017 OP
Was he wearing a wire? Tommy_Carcetti Nov 2017 #1
His wire has been getting a lot of wear for quite a while now. L. Coyote Nov 2017 #3
Which makes you wonder about the comptence of anyone around Trump to let him in. Tommy_Carcetti Nov 2017 #4
Lock them all Up malaise Nov 2017 #2

L. Coyote

(51,129 posts)
3. His wire has been getting a lot of wear for quite a while now.
Mon Nov 27, 2017, 03:41 PM
Nov 2017

Apparently, he's been cooperating since he decided not to become a kidnapper. He realized he was in the middle of a criminal conspiracy and decided not to go to jail.

Tommy_Carcetti

(43,189 posts)
4. Which makes you wonder about the comptence of anyone around Trump to let him in.
Mon Nov 27, 2017, 03:45 PM
Nov 2017

But then again, this is---as John Oliver has remarked--Stupid Watergate.

We'll gladly give them more rope if they really want to hang themselves.

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