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Jim Sciutto (CNN): Emails, texts from Russians undermine Trump campaign claims (Original Post)
triron
Apr 2018
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"Jim Sciutto (CNN): Emails, texts from Russians undermine Trump campaign claims."
LenaBaby61
Apr 2018
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LenaBaby61
(6,974 posts)1. "Jim Sciutto (CNN): Emails, texts from Russians undermine Trump campaign claims."
lindysalsagal
(20,682 posts)2. Direct cnn link:
https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/27/politics/russians-trump-team-magnitsky-act/index.html?sr=twCNN043018russians-trump-team-magnitsky-act0658PMVODtop
Russians followed up on Trump Tower meeting after election, Democrats say
By Jeremy Herb, CNN Updated 10:35 PM ET, Fri April 27, 2018
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Adam Schiff might just save us all.
Russians followed up on Trump Tower meeting after election, Democrats say
By Jeremy Herb, CNN Updated 10:35 PM ET, Fri April 27, 2018
(CNN)The Russian oligarch and Russian lawyer who were key players in the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting reached out to Trump's team after Donald Trump was elected President to try to lobby on the Russian sanctions they sought to overturn, according to Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee.
Rep. Adam Schiff, the top Democrat on the intelligence panel, told CNN's Jim Sciutto on Friday that Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya reached out to the Trump family after the election with a request to follow up on efforts to repeal the Magnitsky Act, the 2012 Russian sanctions the US enacted over human rights abuses.
Veselnitskaya was the Russian lawyer at the center of the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting, where Donald Trump Jr. expected to receive damaging information on Hillary Clinton but instead Veselnitskaya focused on the repeal of the sanctions.
Clearly, there's an expectation there on the Russian side that they may now have success with the Magnitsky Act, given that the prior meeting and communications dealt with the offer of help," Schiff said. "It certainly seems like the Russians were ready for payback."
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Adam Schiff might just save us all.
Caliman73
(11,736 posts)4. There is the quip pro quo.
This could be the "Watergate Tapes" moment in this saga.