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Guess what? The Steele dossier said the Putin regime was funneling anti-HRC info to the Trump camp.
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Donald Trump Jr.s Emails Sound Like the Steele Dossier
The presidents son offers evidence Trumps team colluded with Putins regime.
DAVID CORN JUL. 11, 2017 2:07 PM
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/07/donald-trump-jr-emails-steele-dossier/
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 presidents 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 Putins 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.
The Trump Jr. emails also provide partial support for some information within the Steele dossier.
Me.
(35,454 posts)Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)Damnable darkside shit. Majorly.
FreepFryer
(7,077 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(48,935 posts)Two excerpts from the article you link:
Fusion GPS, which is based in Washington DC and was established by former Wall Street Journal reporters Glenn Simpson and Peter Fritsch, found itself in the spotlight earlier this year after it emerged it was behind an oppo research dossier containing unproven and often salacious allegations about Mr Trump.
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Mr Veselnitskaya has for several years been leading a campaign to have the act overturned. As part of her effort she allegedly hired GPS Fusion. A complaint filed last year claimed that GPS Fusion headed the pro-Russia campaign to kill the Magnitsky Act.
FreepFryer
(7,077 posts)I imagine FusionGPS' motives are part of the investigation, given Senator Grassley's email to Boente - her relationship to both the dossier and the Jr meeting is both tantalizing and somewhat worrisome.
Not Ruth
(3,613 posts)FreepFryer
(7,077 posts)FreepFryer
(7,077 posts)pnwmom
(108,951 posts)babylonsister
(171,028 posts)July 11, 2017 5:00 AM
John McCain faces questions in Trump-Russia dossier case
By Kevin G. Hall
Sen. John McCain faces questions in a defamation lawsuit about leaks leading to publication of the now-infamous dossier that alleged Donald Trumps campaign had connections to Russian operatives, McClatchy has learned.
The dossier compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele and his London firm, Orbis Business Intelligence Ltd., amounted to a collection of uncorroborated reports of collusion gathered as political research for sale to Trumps opponents. It proved explosive when published by online news site BuzzFeed on Jan. 10.
Now, two lawsuits one in the United States and a second in the U.K. are being brought by lawyers for Aleksej Gubarev, a Cyprus-based Internet entrepreneur whom Steeles Russian sources accused of cyber spying against the Democratic Party leadership.
According to a new court document in the British lawsuit, counsel for defendants Steele and Orbis repeatedly point to McCain, R-Ariz., a vocal Trump critic, and a former State Department official as two in a handful of people known to have had copies of the full document before it circulated among journalists and was published by BuzzFeed.
The court document obtained by McClatchy confirms that Sir Andrew Wood, a former British ambassador to Moscow and a Russia adviser to former Prime Minister Tony Blair, discussed the 35-page dossier with McCain.
more...
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/national/article160622854.html
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029311566
Duppers
(28,117 posts)TY.
hurple
(1,306 posts)Was Jr around for the hooker show?
certainot
(9,090 posts)he set s the tone for 1200 radio stations and that's what the republican base is going with
they don't get msnbc or david corn
Doug the Dem
(1,297 posts)OldRedneck
(1,397 posts)Go straight to the source . . . impeach Trump . . . install Putin as President!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
OldRedneck
(1,397 posts)muriel_volestrangler
(101,262 posts)Looking at the link to the dossier in reply #7, we find
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.
Goldstone was heavily involved with Trump's Miss Universe Moscow trip - see https://www.wired.com/story/rob-goldstone-trump-family-timeline/ and reckons himself a close associate, and was involved in the offer of the Russian intelligence to Donny. We also find from the dossier:
According to Source D, where s/he had been present, Trump's (perverted) conduct in Moscow included hiring the presidential suite of the Ritz Carlton Hotel, where he knew President and Mrs Obama (whom he hated) had stayed on one of their official trips to Russia, and defiling the bed where they had slept by employing a number of prostitutes to perform a 'golden showers' (urination) show in front of him.
enid602
(8,589 posts)Maybe Goldstein was trying to extort junior. Maybe the 'dirt on HRC' was just a red herring.
SunSeeker
(51,502 posts)As far as I can tell, the only proven error is the mispelling Alfa Bank as Alpha Bank--but still phonetically correct!