BREAKING: New Report Claims Russian Lawyer Actually Did Bring Clinton Dirt Docs to Trump Jr. Meeting

[DonViejo]

by Rachel Stockman | 1:22 pm, July 14th, 2017

You’ve heard the word bombshell tossed around throughout the news surrounding the Russia probe, but a new report in the Associated Press is certain to raise even more eyebrows. Reporters for the outlet tracked down Rinat Akmestshin, a Russian American lobbyist who reportedly once was a Russian spy (he denies it). He confirmed his participation in the June 2016 meeting with Donald Trump, Jr., Jared Kushner, Paul Manafort and Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya. But, here’s the shocking part. He told them that the Russian attorney actually did bring with her a plastic folder with “printed-out” documents detailing illicit funds allegedly being funneled to the DNC.

Here’s the bombshell that was actually buried pretty far down in the AP article:

<< During the meeting, Akhmetshin said Veselnitskaya brought with her a plastic folder with printed-out documents that detailed what she believed was the flow of illicit funds to the Democratic National Committee. Veselnitskaya presented the contents of the documents to the Trump associates and suggested that making the information public could help the Trump campaign, he said.

…

Akhmetshin said he does not know if Veselnitskaya’s documents were provided by the Russian government. He said he thinks she left the materials with the Trump associates. It was unclear if she handed the documents to anyone in the room or simply left them behind, he said. >>

Earlier this week, Donald Trump Jr. said he never received anything of substance from the Russian lawyer. He claims she provided no “supporting information” about the claims.

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http://lawnewz.com/high-profile/bombshell-new-report-claims-russian-lawyer-actually-did-bring-clinton-dirt-docs-to-trump-jr-meeting/

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. So every single time anybody from the Trump family, WH or administration

opens their mouth, EVERY SINGLE TIME, they are lying.

Got it.

Obama , zero lies

Hillary, lied once about being under fire in helicopter, other than that, zero.

I am losing patience.

[LisaM]

2. And that wasn't even a lie, per se. It was conflating two events.

Even the military people involved admitted that's a very common thing.

[Eliot Rosewater]

4. I wanted to be as accurate as possible.

Clinton Obama combined, one statement not entirely true

Trump and team, 3,987 untrue statements in 2017 alone.

I have lost all patience with all people who support him. I consider them enemies of America, traitors.

[AngryAmish]

5. You are conflating Hillary and Williams from NBC

[Eliot Rosewater]

6. My recollection is Hillary also is accused of saying the same thing.

Bosnia.

She exaggerated the conditions on the ground, and to date she and Obama combined are guilty of one exaggeration as compared to republicans who lie all day, everyday.

[yallerdawg]

10. There's lies, and then there's damn lies.

“If you like your health care plan, you can keep it.”

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2013/dec/12/lie-year-if-you-like-your-health-care-plan-keep-it/

'Purity' annoys the hell out of me.

Remember how you can tell a politician is lying?

[bettyellen]

11. The thing is- the changes made the health plans a better value! So WTF?!?

I've never seen such twisted shit. And they blatantly lie all day long. Crazy.

[yallerdawg]

15. Some personal anecdote about Bosnia?

Exactly!

[Demsrule86]

17. I think that is not true...

And given what we know what really happened...I think we should leave Hillary alone...clearly there was a Russian disinformation effort, collusion with the Russian and some fell for it...some who should have been on our side were tricked (those who vote for Stein etc.).

[Eliot Rosewater]

36. I was pointing out a rather stark difference, and mentioned the ONLY

comment of hers that could be remotely construed as such.

As opposed to tens of thousands from trump and friends.

I dont think there is a bigger HRC supporter on this site, so excuse me if I came off otherwise.

[MiddleClass]

37. Obviously, Bullshit leftover from the campaign

False equivalency. I think it's called.

Hillary and Brian Williams, overly exaggerated a helicopter story that actually happened.

Is equal to 20 lies before lunch. It's equivalent, it's decided, they're both equal.



Everyone understands exactly what you're saying, they're just trying to be intellectually honest

[Demsrule86]

46. You can support anyone you choose...didn't mean it that way.

[awesomerwb1]

3. You know they're going to focus on

this: "actually did bring with her a plastic folder with “printed-out” documents detailing illicit funds allegedly being funneled to the DNC."

It also strengthens the collusion part. Adoptions, suuuuure.

Is it possible the DNC (pennyless when Clinton won nomination according to, was it Hillary herself?), so is it possible for anyone to take foreign money indirectly like that?

[AJT]

8. I'm going to guess that the files provided did not

support the allegations so they didn't use them.

[bettyellen]

12. Yeah, they got nothing but those shitty emails so they exaggerated them- had Wiki edit them to

Piss off Sanders supporters etc and ran with it- because hey already had distro network set up. They wanted to be able to make it look like the swing states cared about emails. They did not.

[MiddleClass]

38. I hope Susan Sarandon feels stupid

I hope Cornell West feels stupid.
I hope Nina Turner feels stupid, no wait, she is stupid, lacking in all self-awareness.

Like Cheeto. She can't feel stupid.

It's like getting a dog all riled up over a ball, and even throwing it in front of a train

[politicaljunkie41910]

24. This is bullshit.The linked article did not even state that which the OP proports it to have said

Below are the actual quotes from the linked Lawnewz.com Article. (Too bad the DU tabs aren't working so I can't highlight it therefore I'm posting it as is. While this may not be the usual "Rightwing Talking Points" and worthy of an Abuse Alert, it is still not an accurate statement of what the OP is claiming. Enough with the complicity of more Hillary Bashing. The article did not confirm what the OP's claim.

“...This could be a good issue to expose how the DNC is accepting bad money,” Akhmetshin recalled her saying.

Trump Jr. asked the attorney if she had all the evidence to back up her claims, including whether she could demonstrate the flow of the money. But Veselnitskaya said the Trump campaign would need to research it more. After that, Trump Jr. lost interest, according to Akhmetshin. ..."


http://lawnewz.com/high-profile/bombshell-new-report-claims-russian-lawyer-actually-did-bring-clinton-dirt-docs-to-trump-jr-meeting/

[bettyellen]

44. It seems to me that they dangled the emails and falsely advertised there was good dirt coming....

I bet they also talked about what they could help do w voter roll info, etc. and they tried to get a pledge to eliminate sanctions for it. That they didn't have really damning info doesn't matter- Trump hoped for it and has been keeping his promises. He became subject to black mail was then on the hook.

[Demsrule86]

20. If there was any real dirt, the GOP would have used it.

Sounds like the Russians gave information that Trump couldn't use.

[Raster]

32. Agreed. If the negative DNC info was good, they would have wasted no time...

...splashing it all over Fox and the Enquirer. No time at all.

Miss Russia Lawyer Thing may have brought a folder with her containing tRumped* up DNC info, but I think her main purpose was to solicit tRump* aid in relieving the sanctions against Russia.

[Demsrule86]

47. And Hillary should not comment on this shit.

you and I agree ....so sick of Trump.

[Raster]

48. I think the old adage of "give 'em enough rope" is perfect here....

...I only hope we don't run out of rope before they run out of time.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

31. Oh, I expect The Trump Turds will focus on that in another way, with another monstrous lie.

"OK, so the Russian lady, whoever she was, left a folder with loads of dirt on Clinton, but we never touched that folder because we would never stoop to that sort of thing! Also, it was Obama's fault."

[PearliePoo2]

7. Holy shit...you can't turn away for a second. Illicit funds to the DNC? Not good, if true.

Plus: Is Akhmetshin blabbing freely, sending another message to Donnie from Pootie, "You better deliver on our deal"?

shit's getting real...

[bettyellen]

13. If it was true- it would have come out. It didn't so I think we know better.

Don't we?

[PearliePoo2]

16. Yeah, you're correct! Especially since BLOTUS NEVER held that newser that he was crowing about.

I'm just so freaked out right now, my head is spinning trying to process all the in-coming.
It's so mind-blowing, I've got to take deep breaths!

[bettyellen]

23. Remember that- because they're going to try and spin it exactly that way....

Meanwhile they're upset someone in the Ukraine uncovered payments from Russia to Manafort.
They are trying to spin uncovering their crimes as crimes. This from the assholes who encouraged illegal leaks.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

33. "They are trying to spin uncovering their crimes as crimes."

They really are masters of BS. The Trumps are just natural born liars, but they are being advised my expert propagandists. I'll bet Bannon has studied everything Geobbels ever said or wrote about the subject. Probably has posters of him in his office and bedroom.

[emulatorloo]

29. Maddow gave us a heads up that White House was going try to spin this into a "Democrat Scandal"

I"m not fooled. I doubt Mueller is fooled. These folks are liars

[brooklynite]

9. Well, it WAS turning out to be a quiet day...

[bettyellen]

14. Do you think ANY of this is what the WaPo was sitting on?

[leftstreet]

22. It's almost impossible to believe Trump wasn't there

If they had no fears of exposure pulling this off, why keep Trump away?

I won't be surprised if we hear Trump 'poked his head into the room for a second'

or something like that

[bettyellen]

35. At the very least he was on speaker phone listening and not saying a word- I'd ask if that

were true, because he seems to use the Paulie method from goodfellas- no paper trail, nothing direct if he can help it. When did they start doing the 24 livestream of the TT lobby? Immediately after the election? I bet that will turn up info too.

[retread]

18. Remember the repug outrage when

Obama wore a tiara



and Michelle showed her toned arms?


Colluding with a hostile foreign government to steal an election? Nary a peep.

[Not Ruth]

19. Is Trump catfishing the media?

Dirt or no dirt?

Does he want the story to disappear or to be the story of the year?

[MedusaX]

21. Perhaps a sample item to prove possession...Standard procedure in an election related op would be

To make sure to create a trail of seemingly legitimate campaign funds, that can later be proven unlawful, for both candidates/parties....

That way no matter which way it goes you still have leverage in place....

So every one huddles up at Trump Tower
& lawyer chick whips out the sample document showing where one of Vlad's Oligarch pals has utilized a legit looking shell company...
that can be traced back to a foreign entity ...
to make various campaign contributions to the opposing party/candidates ...

And then she says
there is more where that came from...
If you want access
here's what the terms of the deal are going to be.....

[L. Coyote]

25. We're being conned. Seems like misdirection to hide what they really brought, the DNC hack.

And then they stated their price to dump it on Wikileaks is my best guess, and Trump paid the price by agreeing to collude on sanctions.

[HopeAgain]

26. Exactly

He would have known exactly who had that "plastic folder" when he left. I think we are going to see a lot of misdirection.

[emulatorloo]

30. Yes. misdirection from what they actually bought

Misdirection and a chance to lie about Democrats.

However this is not good news for Don Jr.

[Cosmocat]

41. This is now definitive proof the DNC was dirty

To their pods.

[kacekwl]

27. Of course they did.

And trump Jr. left them behind. Right.

[thesquanderer]

49. This is why Trump Jr said they didn't provide any Hillary dirt.

He didn't realize he was supposed to take that folder that was left behind on the desk.

[kentuck]

28. Russian lawyer brought news that they indeed had the emails that Trump talked about in his speech..

...and Don Jr had said they wanted them later in the summer.

Right on time, the Wikileaks emails came out in the final weeks of the election.

That was what was offered in that meeting, in my opinion.

[MFM008]

34. At least

They took the offer and said they would lift sanctions asap.
We ALL know this.

[spanone]

39. one loses track of the lies...

[Cosmocat]

40. So she gave them proof the DNC taking illegal funds

And ...

They didn't use it.

THAT is believable?

[Achilleaze]

42. No. It's not believable.

One thing Americans can be certain of, if the republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief has access to poo, he will fling it. Automatically. Lowly. Disgustingly.

[Cosmocat]

45. Right?

But, to their kids, this will be proof.

[spanone]

43. imagine the worse possible scenario for our country and you're probably spot on with what happened

how many lies have been told this week....Jesus wept