Trump Jr. Hinted at Review of Anti-Russia Law, Moscow Lawyer Says
Source: Bloomberg
By Irina Reznik and Henry Meyer
November 6, 2017, 4:01 AM EST
A Russian lawyer who met with President Donald Trumps oldest son last year says he indicated that a law targeting Russia could be re-examined if his father won the election and asked her for written evidence that illegal proceeds went to Hillary Clintons campaign.
The lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya, said in a two-and-a-half-hour interview in Moscow that she would tell these and other things to the Senate Judiciary Committee on condition that her answers be made public, something it hasnt agreed to. She has received scores of questions from the committee, which is investigating possible collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign. Veselnitskaya said shes also ready -- if asked -- to testify to Special Counsel Robert Mueller.
Her June 9, 2016 encounter with Donald Trump Jr., President Trumps son-in-law Jared Kushner and then campaign manager Paul Manafort in New York plays a key role in allegations that the campaign worked with Russia to defeat Clinton. Veselnitskaya said she went to New York to show Trump campaign officials that major Democratic donors had evaded U.S. taxes and to lobby against the so-called Magnitsky law that punishes Russian officials for the murder of a Russian tax accountant who accused the Kremlin of corruption.
If We Come to Power
Looking ahead, if we come to power, we can return to this issue and think what to do about it, Trump Jr. said of the 2012 law, she recalled. I understand our side may have messed up, but itll take a long time to get to the bottom of it, he added, according to her.
Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-06/trump-jr-said-anti-russia-law-may-be-reviewed-moscow-lawyer-says
MaryMagdaline
(6,855 posts)This is the quid pro quo. OR, this is the lesson in why you don't meet with Russians without notifying State Department or FBI. Because even if you don't betray your country, they will say that you did.
Idiots and traitors.
Mr. Ected
(9,670 posts)The optics here point in the direction of >>>>> TREASON.
SHRED
(28,136 posts)Madam45for2923
(7,178 posts)wiggs
(7,814 posts)avebury
(10,952 posts)You put my father in the Oval Office and we will make your Oligarch's problems go away by doing away with the Anti-Russia Law. Sure sounds like collusion.
pnwmom
(108,978 posts)She should NOT be trusted.
Gothmog
(145,291 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)on condition that her answers be made public, something it hasnt agreed to.
McTurdle is clearly implicated and terrified about what she'll say.