Trump Jr./Russian lawyer meeting: Jr. knew info was part of Russian Gov effort

[Silent Hunter]

Seriously, the only Trump who appears to be innocent of anything round here is Barron.

[Silent Hunter]

goldstone is going to be a great character for the movie.

how i such an oddball able to influence anything? lol


and i am still of the same opinion as before - there is a high possibility that NOTHING the trump campaign did was illegal or is proveable.

but the cover-up could be a real problem.

We now have evidence of a senior person in the Trump campaign attempting to obtain dirt on Clinton from a foreign national... and that's the admission so far.

[Silent Hunter]

Wait, what is this "Crown Prosecutor of Russia" business? Is he referring to the Prosecutor-General, I think it is?

Well Goldstone is from the UK, so he was probably just using his country's equivalent in place of Russia's (out of habit or a lack of understanding of Russia's titles)

Well, Congress could ask him.

[Silent Hunter]

NBC: Former Soviet Counter Intelligence Officer at Meeting With Donald Trump Jr. and Russian Lawyer

Don't worry! Trump Jr's lawyer says he's just this guy, you know? Totally cool, no shenanigans at all.
Who is he? No one is mentioning that on either side. 
It does hurt Trump Jr's failing credibility even more, though.

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http://www.cnbc.com/2017/07/14/the-russian-lawyer-who-met-with-trump-jr-brought-an-ex-soviet-counter-intelligence-officer.html

Yep. More lies from the trump and Co.

His name is Rinat Akhmetshin. He is a Russian-American lobbyist and a former Soviet counterintelligence officer who is suspected by some U.S. officials of having ongoing ties to Russian intelligence. He was born in Russia and previously served in the Soviet military.

I would point out that pretty much every man who reached adulthood in the USSR served in their military... but most weren't in counter-intelligence.

[Silent Hunter]

Wilful and deliberate omission of a significant and relevant fact about an event is pretty much a lie.

[Silent Hunter]

http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/24/politics/jared-kushner-russians-statement/index.html

Kushner: "I did not collude."

I may be reading too much into this, but that's interesting phrasing.  It doesn't say a thing about whether anyone else in the campaign might have colluded.

It does, doesn't it. If it comes out that someone did collude, he'll deny knowing that.