Reince Priebus Accuses Democratic Operatives Of Setting Up Russia Meeting With Trump Jr.

[MelissaB]

Reince Priebus Accuses Democratic Operatives Of Setting Up Russia Meeting With Trump Jr.
The meeting just came to light on Saturday.

White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus has accused Democratic operatives of arranging a meeting between Donald Trump Jr. and a Kremlin-linked lawyer last summer, two weeks after Donald Trump won the Republican nomination for president.

The meeting, which included Jared Kushner and Trump’s then-campaign manager Paul Manafort and took place at Trump Tower in Manhattan, came to light in an investigation published Saturday in The New York Times. Trump Jr. defended the summit, which he said focused on Russian child adoption policies.

On Sunday, Priebus said “the individual that set up the meeting may have been” associated with Fusion GPS, the Washington, D.C.-based strategy firm behind a leaked intelligence dossier that suggested Russian officials possess materials that could be used to blackmail President Trump.

“There’s more questions on the Democrat side than anywhere else, Priebus said on “Fox News Sunday.”

More: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-russia-lawyer_us_59624746e4b0615b9e922779

[skylucy]

1. What a load of ****.

[MBS]

14. " " " " "

These people have NO SHAME.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. Reince, you were told not to eat the brown acid.

[onecaliberal]

3. Geezus Christ.....

[HipChick]

4. So...did the Dems set up all the Russian meetings that were forgotten

or just this one? They must think everyone is stupid..

[LakeVermilion]

5. Has all the elements of an FBI sting operation.

Plenty of people in prison now, who were "victimized" by stings. No one made them go to the meeting. No one made them talk about sanctions. Sucks to be them.

If the entrapment defense works, there should be a whole-lot of appeals cases in our court system.

[DarthDem]

6. Well, Now We Know . . .

That the White House occupiers clearly feel the need to come up with some sort of response to this, so it's obviously a big deal. Their messaging ability, which is normally so fanatically disciplined, has significantly deteriorated of late.

[Demtexan]

7. Somebody is getting scared.

Must be getting hot in the white house.

[Cracklin Charlie]

11. They jumped out quick to put this fire out.

Proof of collusion must be tamped down quickly.

[stopbush]

8. Oooooo... the "deep state" Ds are evil conspirators!

Do these assholes actually believe these fantasies?

[emulatorloo]

13. Nah, but their Alex Jones/Limbaugh-addled base does.

[Tanuki]

9. I wish the intelligence committee investigating all of this would haul Priebus' lying ass in

and make him explain under oath what the basis is of this serious allegation. I am so sick of GOP operatives lying to the public as readily as they breathe air and with apparent impunity.

[magicarpet]

10. So this happened in the summer of 2016....

...... and poor Donnie tr-dump jr. was tricked by the Dems to meet the Kremlin lawyer. This was all done to donnie jr during a very contentious political contest for POTUS. Yet he was successfully "framed" to commit what was wrong doing - but the Demos never went public until a year and one month later. But kept this a secret from the press and did not reveal this prior to the voting day of 11/08/2916 . Then the Dems leaked this fact on July of 2017 where the leak had zero impact on the election.

What drugs are these folks doing ?

[emulatorloo]

12. Wonkette: "Donny Trump Jr SO MAD Hillary Clinton Tricked Him Into Colluding With Russians,

Just the once"

https://wonkette.com/620020/donny-trump-jr-so-mad-hillary-clinton-tricked-him-into-colluding-with-russians-just-the-once

As always, a good take on Trump Admin's ridiculous bullshit spin.

[NastyRiffraff]

18. That is QUITE a posting by Wonkette

(Junior): "“I was asked to attend the meeting by an acquaintance, but was not told the name of the person I would be meeting with beforehand.”

Damn you, dastardly “acquaintance”! Fooling three grownass professional men into hosting a meeting in their own office. To talk about an unknown topic. Unrelated to the campaign. With a person whose name they didn’t even know."

Read more at https://wonkette.com/620020/donny-trump-jr-so-mad-hillary-clinton-tricked-him-into-colluding-with-russians-just-the-once#exMikX6OzZQjvB5C.99

[Jim__]

15. "... may have been associated with ..."

There's an "accusation" that would be hard to disprove.

[Vinca]

16. Let me get this straight. Hillary colluded with the Russians to entrap Don, Jr. and friends so

Russia would continue to steal emails and undermine Hillary's candidacy in favor of Trump. Huh????

[spanone]

17. is that the best you could do, rinse?

i bet fox 'news' just lapped that up!

[jpak]

19. Those Dastardly Democrats!1111

How dare they lure these innocent children to a Russia meeting in Trump Tower!!

[briv1016]

20. He knows their base will believe it.

Hell, just yesterday I was at a family barbecue and my uncle was saying that Christy was brilliant for partying on that closed beach because it "forced" the state to pass a budget. THEY WILL BELIEVE ANYTHING!!!

[muriel_volestrangler]

21. Shorter Donny Jr: "a big boy made us do it, and then ran away!"

This is the most ridiculous claim I think I've ever heard of in politics.