"We never got anything out of the meeting"

[SHRED]

That seems to be the defense of the Jr, Kushner, Manafort meeting with the Russians.

I could be wrong but conspiracy to violate campaign law doesn't rely on whether anything of value was obtained does it?
It only matters that that was the motivation...correct?

[VermontKevin]

1. The Russians did.

[SHRED]

3. Oh I know that

In fact I won't be shocked if they recorded that meeting.

[standingtall]

2. Haha even if they got fake info they still would've used it

as if it were real if they thought they could sell it to their base.

[shraby]

4. I think the russians got information from don jr. etal how much data to dump, when and what they

wanted to see. The Russians had or were getting the hacked material and wanted to know what the trump team wanted done with it.

So......of course Donnie wouldn't have had any "in hand" material. It was a strategy planning meeting.

[MineralMan]

5. Yes. "We hoped to get lots of dirt on Hillary, but didn't. So, never mind."

That seems to be the subtext of this. Feh!

[ProudLib72]

6. Yeah, right

We know how substantial their nothingburgers are.

"That meeting? Oh, that was nothing. It was only to set up an ongoing exchange of secret information. But we didn't get a single thing out of that particular meeting."

[ChoppinBroccoli]

7. But Your Honor, When I Got To The Hotel Room, There Was No 13 Year Old Boy There

Oh, OK. Case dismissed.

Not how it works, Junior.