The closest thing to a smoking gun
Lawrence Douglas
Wednesday 12 July 2017 03.00 EDT
Imagine a criminal accused of conspiring to receive stolen property. At trial, the accused testifies that he hired a big truck to carry away the goods, but when he arrived at the stash all he found was worthless garbage. I might feel for the hapless criminal, but his guilt would not be in question ...
At the very least, we might expect .. Jr, an experienced businessman, to turn to a lawyer for advice before proceeding.
But .. Junior does none of this. His response follows a scant 17 minutes later, hardly time to seek counsel or advice ... “If it’s what you say, I love it.”
He then goes about planning ... The meeting takes place six days later .. on the 25th floor of Trump Tower. He arranges to be accompanied by Paul Manafort, who at the time was managing the candidate’s campaign, and Jared Kushner ...
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jul/12/donald-trump-jr-smoking-gun-russia
