Ted Frazier
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Well, well, well, American and Russian conservatives of this board. Prepare your "funny" ratings, because you're not going to like this:
Remember when conservatives and liberals disagreed on whether the Russian lawyer lady who met Trump's minions in the Trump Tower was a Putin shill or not? The question is settled now:
Talking Points Brought to Trump Tower Meeting Were Shared With Kremlin
10/27/2017:
Remember when conservatives and liberals disagreed on whether the Russian lawyer lady who met Trump's minions in the Trump Tower was a Putin shill or not? The question is settled now:
Talking Points Brought to Trump Tower Meeting Were Shared With Kremlin
10/27/2017:
Natalia V. Veselnitskaya arrived at a meeting at Trump Tower in June 2016 hoping to interest top Trump campaign officials in the contents of a memo she believed contained information damaging to the Democratic Party and, by extension, Hillary Clinton. The material was the fruit of her research as a private lawyer, she has repeatedly said, and any suggestion that she was acting at the Kremlin’s behest that day is anti-Russia “hysteria.”
But interviews and records show that in the months before the meeting, Ms. Veselnitskaya had discussed the allegations with one of Russia’s most powerful officials, the prosecutor general, Yuri Y. Chaika. And the memo she brought with her closely followed a document that Mr. Chaika’s office had given to an American congressman two months earlier, incorporating some paragraphs verbatim.
The coordination between the Trump Tower visitor and the Russian prosecutor general undercuts Ms. Veselnitskaya’s account that she was a purely independent actor when she sat down with Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law, and Paul J. Manafort, then the Trump campaign chairman. It also suggests that emails from an intermediary to the younger Mr. Trump promising that Ms. Veselnitskaya would arrive with information from Russian prosecutors were rooted at least partly in fact — not mere “puffery,” as the president’s son later said.