Bolton's former Chief of Staff tells Joy Reid that Don Jr. went to the meeting knowing it was fake

[Miles Archer]

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/07/msnbc-interview-goes-off-the-rails-when-joy-reid-holds-trump-supporters-feet-to-the-fire-on-russia/

Reid was unrelenting in questioning Fred Fleitz, the former chief of staff for Ambassador John Bolton, who persisted in explaining that the Trump meeting on June 9th was much ado about nothing because it was organized by music promoter Rob Goldstone

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“This guy was exaggerating, this guy was lying to get his client in front of Donald Trump Jr. That’s what happened here, all this other stuff is fantasy,” he remarked while holding up a photo of Goldstone wearing a pirate hat.

“Let me ask you a question,” Reid shot back,. “It’s not fantasy because the meeting took place. In your view, if this person said to Donald Trump Jr., ‘I’ve got this information from the Russian government.’ What would be the motivation of Donald Trump Jr. to say ‘yes,’ and take the meeting?”

“Because Donald Trump Jr. knows this guy is a flake,” Fleitz parried. ” Because he realizes he’s exaggerating to get the meeting but he’s a friend. he probably said, ‘well, look, there’s no Russian effort to help my father, but look, I’ll meet with this guy because he’s a friend.’ There’s simply nothing there to connect this as a Russian intelligence operation.”

[Baitball Blogger]

1. Oh my God.

They have to contort themselves to find something to say. That just tells you how desperate they are.

[MattP]

2. His pictures looked photoshopped not that it matters

[global1]

3. Then Why Would Jr. Involve Kushner And Manafort In The Meeting....

if he knew it was fake - why would Jr. waste their time with this meeting? Reading the e-mail thread provided by Jr. - it looks like Jr. thought the meeting was important.

[VigilantG]

5. They'll keep coming up with BS to see which one

Works best to their base! Just a barrage of gas lighting or mindf@cking as one of my therapists taught me years ago--like from an abusive relationship!!!

[muriel_volestrangler]

11. Exactly. This guy is a desperate repub auditioning for a WH place

to replace any rat that deserts the sinking ship. I mean, "chief of staff for John Bolton"? What an embarrassing way to be introduced. He went on TV to show he can bullshit with a straight face.

[H2O Man]

4. Both Joy and Malcolm Nance

handled him very well.

[Wellstone ruled]

6. Another Frank Luntz

trial balloon? Notice Luntz made the rounds of the Comcast Media outlets the other day,spewing similiar trash.

[malaise]

7. As fake as the Con's denials n/t

[spanone]

8. it would be funny if not for these treasonous fucks

[joeybee12]

9. Apparently Junior being duped storyline isn't working

So let's make up mew lies.

[Generic Brad]

10. So that is supposed to be a rationale explanation?

The campaign was extremely busy and gearing up to take the party nomination within a matter of days. Their time was at a premium. And yet the most senior members of the campaign chose to take a meeting that they believed to be a waste of time at this critical juncture as a favor to an acquaintance?

And in other explanations this was all orchestrated by Hillary Clinton to make them look bad?

This does not pass the sniff test. BULLSHIT!

[yardwork]

12. Fail.

[Gothmog]

13. Joy Reid did a great job with this dishonest idot

Malcom Nance basically told this fool that he was a dishonest idiot

[struggle4progress]

14. It's OK! At the time, Jr was too high on crack to understand what was going on!

Also -- Jared was too busy on his smartphone, checking out his free subscription to Russian porn sites, to pay much attention to that lawyer wazzername! And Manafort was still totally preoccupied by the possibility of lining up a mob hit on Hillary! So actually none of them even noticed the folder of stuff on the table from the Russian government! In short, it was just like any other nothing-burger afternoon at the campaign!