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Bernardo de La Paz

(48,997 posts)
Fri Jul 14, 2017, 09:10 PM Jul 2017

Evidence Suggests Russian Intelligence Pipeline To Trump Campaign

Source: HuffPo, AP

Days after Donald Trump Jr. hosted a group of Russians at Trump Tower promising to deliver damaging information on the Democratic National Committee and presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, a hacker believed connected to the Russian government released a trove of documents online ― including ones that sound similar to those reportedly provided to Trump Jr.

Ranit Akhmetshin, a Russian American lobbyist and former Soviet counterintelligence officer, told The Associated Press on Friday he took part in the meeting on June 9, 2016, along with Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya. Akhmetshin said Veselnitskaya brought a folder full of documents, which he said she left behind after the meeting.

The documents detailed the Democratic National Committee’s finances and funding sources, some of which Veselnitskaya described as unlawful, Akhmetshin told the AP.



Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/trump-jr-russian-intelligence_us_5969356ee4b0d6341fe8f28f




Mini-Trump has lied so much about the meeting that we should assume his statements denying anything substantive about the meeting are lies too.

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Evidence Suggests Russian Intelligence Pipeline To Trump Campaign (Original Post) Bernardo de La Paz Jul 2017 OP
Every word out of the mouth of any trump and anyone connected with the family is bullshit. pangaia Jul 2017 #1
There's that Russian Money Pipeline too, the spike in Alfa Bank donations right after the meeting. byronius Jul 2017 #2
LOL!! Grassy Knoll Jul 2017 #3
He tweeted this just now ProudLib72 Jul 2017 #4
republican traitors against America deserve jail time Achilleaze Jul 2017 #5

byronius

(7,394 posts)
2. There's that Russian Money Pipeline too, the spike in Alfa Bank donations right after the meeting.
Fri Jul 14, 2017, 09:16 PM
Jul 2017

Huge spike. Orders of magnitude.

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