Donald Trump Jr.s Emails Sound Like the Steele Dossier

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The president’s son offers evidence Trump’s team colluded with Putin’s regime.
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/07/donald-trump-jr-emails-steele-dossier/
David CornJul. 11, 2017 2:07 PM

Smoke, meet gun.

On Tuesday morning, there was a stunning development in the Trump-Russia scandal: Donald Trump Jr. confessed. In yet another bombshell story, the New York Times reported on emails showing that the president’s oldest son had eagerly accepted an offer of help during the 2016 campaign from what he understood to be the Russian government. Trump Jr., the Times disclosed, had set up a meeting with a Russian attorney in the hopes of receiving derogatory information on Hillary Clinton straight from Putin’s regime. As the Times was publishing this story, Trump Jr. tweeted out those same emails.

The emails reveal that top Trump campaign advisers Paul Manafort and Jared Kushner attended the meeting and suggests that all three Trump advisers colluded in what seemed to be a Russian government-backed attempt to hurt Clinton in order to help Trump win the presidency. This new development contradicts the long series of denials from Trump defenders who have claimed that there was no collusion, that there was no evidence Russian leader Vladimir Putin wanted Trump to win, and that the Trump-Russia affair is merely a hoax perpetuated by loser Democrats and fake news outlets.

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Let’s turn to Steele’s June 20 memo. It stated:

Source A confided that the Kremlin had been feeding TRUMP and his team valuable intelligence on his opponents, including Democratic presidential candidate Hillary CLINTON, for several years…This was confirmed by Source D, a close associate of TRUMP who had organized and managed his recent trips to Moscow, and who reported, also in June 2016, that this Russian intelligence had been “very helpful”.

The memo also reported that there was anti-Clinton information that Putin was sitting on:

A dossier of compromising material on Hillary CLINTON has been collated by the Russian intelligence services over many years and mainly comprises bugged conversations she had on various visits to Russia and intercepted phone calls rather than any embarrassing conduct. The dossier is controlled by Kremlin spokesman, PESKOV, directly on PUTIN’s orders. However it has not as yet been distributed abroad, including to TRUMP. Russian intentions for its deployment still unclear.

[Fluke a Snooker]

1. gun, meet jailtime

This should be enough for an immediate indictment with no bail. If they could put Chelsea Manning in the federal lockup for much less, Jr. shouldn't ever be allowed out of prison and made to endure gen pop until his farts don't make a sound.

[Cicada]

2. Was payment to Steele treason?

Steele has ties of some sort to his former U.K. Intelligence employer. A US firm paid him for dirt on Trump possibly from U.K. Spies friends of Steele in part. That is not treason by the US employer of Steele. So if the Russian lawyer gets dirt on Hillary from her Russian spy associates is that different? I am confused about why Steele and the Russian lawyer are different. Because Russia is our enemy and the U.K. Is not? I think that is the correct reason. But how does the law decide which countries are enemies?

[pnwmom]

4. Right. Russia is an adversary. The UK is an ally. nt

[Blue_Roses]

5. The UK is part of the "5 eyes"

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes&ved=0ahUKEwiE2qbMqoPVAhVqxYMKHQF8AXkQFggwMAM&usg=AFQjCNG9kUIo9-aQfg0OZ0vRGpKLRf7Q0A

[Cicada]

8. Good answer - thanks

[Gothmog]

3. I agree with David Corn on this

[wishstar]

6. I'll bet Steele dossier is correct about Russian promises of money to Trump too

Knowing that Manafort was paid multi-millions for his pro-Russian Ukraine deals, the prospect of an even larger payoff to Trump had to be irresistible to Trump. The Kushner meeting with Russian "banker" and his meeting about the secret backchannel almost certainly involved lifting sanctions in return for financial payoffs from Russia.