Report: Intel Panels Interviewed Figure Who Attended Key Trump Tower Meeting

[DonViejo]

Source: Talking Points Memo




By NICOLE LAFOND Published DECEMBER 27, 2017 9:56 AM

A Georgian-American businessman, who said he attended a key 2016 meeting at Trump Tower under the pretense of serving as a translator, has been questioned by both Senate and House intelligence committees, Reuters reported Tuesday.

Congressional investigators were already aware the businessman, Irakly Kaveladze, attended the June 9, 2016 meeting with a Russian lawyer, Donald Trump Jr. and other campaign officials, but recently became more interested in Kaveladze upon learning he attended a private dinner with President Trump and Aras Agalarov in 2013, according to sources familiar with the interviews who spoke to Reuters. The 2013 dinner was held to celebrate an agreement between Trump, then-owner of the Miss Universe pageant, and Agalarov to bring the pageant to Moscow, according to Reuters’ sources. Congressional investigators are seeking more information about Kaveladze’s role in orchestrating the meeting and whether there was any discussion of lifting U.S. sanctions on Russia, Reuters reported.

Information about the June 9, 2016 meeting, which included Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner, was first reported this summer. Trump Jr. initially claimed the meeting was held to discuss Russian adoptions, but later revealed it was arranged with the promise of receiving damaging information about Trump’s opponent Hillary Clinton. A chain of emails Trump Jr. released this summer show he was made aware that the conversation would be “part of Russia and its government’s support for Mr. Trump,” according to one email.

Trump Jr., who has also been questioned by congressional investigators, later said he never actually received any information from the Russian lawyer.

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[Iliyah]

1. Why?

If it were only the Dems I could see a purpose. GOPers are traitors.

[olegramps]

2. They place their personal wealth before their loyality to our nation. They reek with treason.

[olegramps]

3. There is not one, even one who doesn't place their party before their nation. Everyone a scum bag.

I have said it over and over. The Republicans are the most overwhelming threat to our nation. Not Russia, not North Korea, not the Islamic radical terrorists, but the scum bag Republicans. We know they others are our enemy, but the Republicans play the game of being patriots while stabbing the nation in the back. They play the role of being upholding Christian values while worshiping a despicable sexual predator. They don't have a religious bone in their entire body. They would thrown their own grandmother into a rat infested slum for a buck and if she complained, they would shove the ungrateful bitch down the stairs in her wheelchair. Yes, I have at my advanced age become to despise the very ground they walk on.

[getagrip_already]

4. the gop is looking to exonerate, not indict...

but they have to interview everyone they think mueller will use as a witness so they can come up with a different conclusion based on similar information.

Classic disinformation strategy. Take the shell of the facts and stuff them with lies, then set them out amongst the truth.

The gop thugs are politicians, and this is a political game.

That's why.

[Ducksworthy]

5. House Intelligence Committee is a Joke And an oxymoron/

Full of BS and fury signifying nothing.