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kpete

(71,981 posts)
Sat Jul 15, 2017, 01:42 PM Jul 2017

Open-Source Data Indicates Then-Candidate Trump Was - INSIDE- Trump Tower When Don Jr Met w-Russians

Updated at 5:43 p.m. | A review of open-source data indicates then-candidate Donald Trump was inside Trump Tower last year when his eldest son and at least two other top aides huddled with a Russian lawyer they believed had Kremlin-supplied information that could hurt presidential rival Hillary Clinton.

White House and Trump campaign officials, along with the president’s private legal team, have not disputed as of publication time that he was at his Manhattan steel-and-glass haven. That means Trump was nearby — though likely on a different floor — when his son and associates believed they were about to receive information from the Kremlin intended to ding another candidate for the country’s highest office.

“Mr. Mueller will almost certainly want answers, under oath, clarifying whether President Trump was made aware at the time of the existence of the meeting in general, to say nothing of the specific details of the meeting,” said Bradley Moss, a national security lawyer, referring to Justice Department special counsel Robert S. Mueller. “He will also want to know whether President Trump was debriefed about the meeting at any time in the aftermath.”


http://www.rollcall.com/news/politics/president-trump-tower-son-met-russian-lawyer

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Open-Source Data Indicates Then-Candidate Trump Was - INSIDE- Trump Tower When Don Jr Met w-Russians (Original Post) kpete Jul 2017 OP
Let's pause to imagine what the media and GOP would say if.... yardwork Jul 2017 #1
Maybe he had his own private meeting with them or participated electronically jpak Jul 2017 #2
Exactly MFM008 Jul 2017 #3
yep.. There's this nifty device defacto7 Jul 2017 #5
Sr. trump was listening through the heating pipes. yup. riversedge Jul 2017 #4
Eves trough! (how do you spell that?) defacto7 Jul 2017 #6
eavestrough ---But they are on the outside of a building, so no go IMHO riversedge Jul 2017 #7
thanks for the spelling... defacto7 Jul 2017 #8
Of course he was... Hugin Jul 2017 #9

yardwork

(61,588 posts)
1. Let's pause to imagine what the media and GOP would say if....
Sat Jul 15, 2017, 01:44 PM
Jul 2017

Any Democrat had ever done anything like this. Even close.

defacto7

(13,485 posts)
5. yep.. There's this nifty device
Sat Jul 15, 2017, 02:00 PM
Jul 2017

called an intetcom! By pushing one button, the sound of your voice can magically speak in "Another Room"! You don't have to crank it or ask for Sarah or anything.
...hehe..
I doubt a meeting like that would go unattended by dt one way or another if he was in the building.

Hugin

(33,112 posts)
9. Of course he was...
Sat Jul 15, 2017, 02:19 PM
Jul 2017

The Jaundiced Blimp is a huge personal coward and uses surrogates to do his dirty-work. You know he knew exactly what was going on in that meeting. This has been his way of doing business for years as cover. I read a piece recently about how one of the spawn would be in a meeting and make a deal, but, before it was finalized they would have to go up to the throne room and deliver the precise terms to Don Boilerione and if he didn't like it they would have to go back down and renegotiate.

Also, recall the body guard delivering the "Comey, you're fired!" message to the FBI headquarters?

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