David Corn: "Guess what?" Donald Trump Jr.'s Emails Sound Like the Steele Dossier

[Miles Archer]

David Corn‏Verified account
@DavidCornDC

Guess what? The Steele dossier said the Putin regime was funneling anti-HRC info to the Trump camp.

Link to tweet

Donald Trump Jr.’s Emails Sound Like the Steele Dossier
The president’s son offers evidence Trump’s team colluded with Putin’s regime.
DAVID CORN JUL. 11, 2017 2:07 PM

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/07/donald-trump-jr-emails-steele-dossier/

Smoke, meet gun.

On Tuesday morning, there was a stunning development in the Trump-Russia scandal: Donald Trump Jr. confessed. In yet another bombshell story, the New York Times reported on emails showing that the president’s oldest son had eagerly accepted an offer of help during the 2016 campaign from what he understood to be the Russian government. Trump Jr., the Times disclosed, had set up a meeting with a Russian attorney in the hopes of receiving derogatory information on Hillary Clinton straight from Putin’s regime. As the Times was publishing this story, Trump Jr. tweeted out those same emails.

The emails reveal that top Trump campaign advisers Paul Manafort and Jared Kushner attended the meeting and suggests that all three Trump advisers colluded in what seemed to be a Russian government-backed attempt to hurt Clinton in order to help Trump win the presidency. This new development contradicts the long series of denials from Trump defenders who have claimed that there was no collusion, that there was no evidence Russian leader Vladimir Putin wanted Trump to win, and that the Trump-Russia affair is merely a hoax perpetuated by loser Democrats and fake news outlets.

The Trump Jr. emails also provide partial support for some information within the Steele dossier.

[Me.]

1. Yes They Do

[Achilleaze]

2. republican betrayal of America is Epic Evil

Damnable darkside shit. Majorly.

[FreepFryer]

3. The part I haven't yet figured out is the odd connex bet. Veselnitskaya and the Dossier

http://www.independent.co.uk/News/world/americas/us-politics/trump-jr-russian-lawyer-steele-dossier-natalia-veselnitskaya-gps-fusion-a7834541.html

[Bernardo de La Paz]

4. Connection is Magnitsky Act and GPS Fusion

Two excerpts from the article you link:

Fusion GPS, which is based in Washington DC and was established by former Wall Street Journal reporters Glenn Simpson and Peter Fritsch, found itself in the spotlight earlier this year after it emerged it was behind an “oppo research” dossier containing unproven and often salacious allegations about Mr Trump.

...

Mr Veselnitskaya has for several years been leading a campaign to have the act overturned. As part of her effort she allegedly hired GPS Fusion. A complaint filed last year claimed that GPS Fusion headed the pro-Russia campaign to kill the Magnitsky Act.

[FreepFryer]

5. Excellent, thank you!

I imagine FusionGPS' motives are part of the investigation, given Senator Grassley's email to Boente - her relationship to both the dossier and the Jr meeting is both tantalizing and somewhat worrisome.

[Not Ruth]

6. GPS Fusion Putin?

[FreepFryer]

9. Like the Senate, I wanna know a WHOLE lot more about Fusion's background, team & modus operandi. n/t

[FreepFryer]

11. Link to Grassley's email to Boente here

https://www.grassley.senate.gov/sites/default/files/judiciary/upload/2017-03-31%20CEG%20to%20DOJ%20%28Anti-Magnitsky%20FARA%20violations%29%20with%20attachments.pdf

[pnwmom]

7. Here's a link to the Dossier, if anyone wants to refresh their memory.

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3259984-Trump-Intelligence-Allegations.html

[babylonsister]

8. If so, I wonder what/how much McCain knew?

July 11, 2017 5:00 AM
John McCain faces questions in Trump-Russia dossier case
By Kevin G. Hall


Sen. John McCain faces questions in a defamation lawsuit about leaks leading to publication of the now-infamous dossier that alleged Donald Trump’s campaign had connections to Russian operatives, McClatchy has learned.

The dossier compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele and his London firm, Orbis Business Intelligence Ltd., amounted to a collection of uncorroborated reports of collusion gathered as political research for sale to Trump’s opponents. It proved explosive when published by online news site BuzzFeed on Jan. 10.

Now, two lawsuits — one in the United States and a second in the U.K. — are being brought by lawyers for Aleksej Gubarev, a Cyprus-based Internet entrepreneur whom Steele’s Russian sources accused of cyber spying against the Democratic Party leadership.

According to a new court document in the British lawsuit, counsel for defendants Steele and Orbis repeatedly point to McCain, R-Ariz., a vocal Trump critic, and a former State Department official as two in a handful of people known to have had copies of the full document before it circulated among journalists and was published by BuzzFeed.

The court document obtained by McClatchy confirms that Sir Andrew Wood, a former British ambassador to Moscow and a Russia adviser to former Prime Minister Tony Blair, discussed the 35-page dossier with McCain.

more...

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/national/article160622854.html

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029311566

[Duppers]

13. Most interesting.

TY.

[hurple]

10. The real question now is...

Was Jr around for the hooker show?

[certainot]

12. limbaugh just explained that it was fake like the steele dossier.

he set s the tone for 1200 radio stations and that's what the republican base is going with

they don't get msnbc or david corn

[Doug the Dem]

14. Now that's a pisser!

[OldRedneck]

15. It's time to cut out the middleman . .

Go straight to the source . . . impeach Trump . . . install Putin as President!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[OldRedneck]

16. Are the pee videos next????

[muriel_volestrangler]

17. Could Rob Goldstone be Source D, who gave the pee video story?

Looking at the link to the dossier in reply #7, we find

Source A confided that the Kremlin had been feeding TRUMP and his team valuable intelligence on his opponents, including Democratic presidential candidate Hillary CLINTON, for several years…This was confirmed by Source D, a close associate of TRUMP who had organized and managed his recent trips to Moscow, and who reported, also in June 2016, that this Russian intelligence had been “very helpful”.

Goldstone was heavily involved with Trump's Miss Universe Moscow trip - see https://www.wired.com/story/rob-goldstone-trump-family-timeline/ and reckons himself a close associate, and was involved in the offer of the Russian intelligence to Donny. We also find from the dossier:

According to Source D, where s/he had been present, Trump's (perverted) conduct in Moscow included hiring the presidential suite of the Ritz Carlton Hotel, where he knew President and Mrs Obama (whom he hated) had stayed on one of their official trips to Russia, and defiling the bed where they had slept by employing a number of prostitutes to perform a 'golden showers' (urination) show in front of him.

[enid602]

19. Extortion

Maybe Goldstein was trying to extort junior. Maybe the 'dirt on HRC' was just a red herring.

[SunSeeker]

18. The Steele Dossier has yet to be disproven on ANY material assertion.

As far as I can tell, the only proven error is the mispelling Alfa Bank as Alpha Bank--but still phonetically correct!