The New York Times just released a major news story this afternoon providing additional details about the previously undisclosed meeting that Donald Trump Jr., Paul Manafort, and Jared Kushner held at Trump Tower with a Kremlin-connected Russian lawyer shortly after Donald Trump clinched the Republican nomination.
According to three White House advisers briefed on the meeting and tow other who have knowledge of it, Trump Jr. was promised information damaging to Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
As the Times noted, this could provide the first real proof of direct collusion between members of Trump’s circle and the Russians when it comes to election interference:
The meeting — at Trump Tower on June 9, 2016, two weeks after Donald J. Trump clinched the Republican nomination — points to the central question in federal investigations of the Kremlin’s meddling in the presidential election: whether the Trump campaign colluded with the Russians. The accounts of the meeting represent the first public indication that at least some in the campaign were willing to accept Russian help.
Per the report, it is still unclear whether the lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya, actually provided the dirt that she promised to Trump Jr. However, the expectation was she would have the information with her when she arrived at the July meeting.
http://www.mediaite.com/online/bomb...illary-clinton-before-russian-lawyer-meeting/
According to three White House advisers briefed on the meeting and tow other who have knowledge of it, Trump Jr. was promised information damaging to Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
As the Times noted, this could provide the first real proof of direct collusion between members of Trump’s circle and the Russians when it comes to election interference:
The meeting — at Trump Tower on June 9, 2016, two weeks after Donald J. Trump clinched the Republican nomination — points to the central question in federal investigations of the Kremlin’s meddling in the presidential election: whether the Trump campaign colluded with the Russians. The accounts of the meeting represent the first public indication that at least some in the campaign were willing to accept Russian help.
Per the report, it is still unclear whether the lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya, actually provided the dirt that she promised to Trump Jr. However, the expectation was she would have the information with her when she arrived at the July meeting.
http://www.mediaite.com/online/bomb...illary-clinton-before-russian-lawyer-meeting/
