Fmr Trump campaign aide JD Gordon now mtg w/House Intelligence Committee

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Fmr Trump campaign aide JD Gordon now mtg w/House Intelligence Committee
10:01 AM - 26 Jul 2017

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**A reminder of this issue:

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It looks like another Trump adviser has significantly changed his story about the GOP's dramatic shift on Ukraine

Natasha Bertrand

Mar. 3, 2017, 8:34 AM 97,451

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The Trump campaign's national-security policy representative for the Republican National Convention, J.D. Gordon, told CNN on Thursday that he pushed to alter an amendment to the GOP's draft policy on Ukraine at the Republican National Convention last year to further align it with President Donald Trump's views.

Gordon's remarks represent a dramatic shift from previous comments, and they come as Attorney General Jeff Sessions faces intense scrutiny over two previously undisclosed meetings with Russia's ambassador to the US — one of which was timed to the convention.

In January, Gordon told Business Insider that he "never left" his "assigned side table" nor spoke publicly at the GOP national security subcommittee meeting, where the amendment — which originally called for "providing lethal defense weapons" to the Ukrainian army to fend off Russian-backed separatists — was read aloud, debated, and ultimately watered down to "providing appropriate assistance" to Ukraine.

According to CNN's Jim Acosta, however, Gordon said that at the RNC he and others "advocated for the GOP platform to include language against arming Ukrainians against pro-Russian rebels" because "this was in line with Trump's views, expressed at a March national security meeting at the unfinished Trump hotel" in Washington, DC.

"Gordon says Trump said at the meeting ... that he didn't want to go to 'World War Three' over Ukraine," Acosta said. ..................................

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1. Interesting!

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2. Welll...look who was part of the RNC platform/rules committees

The wife of a Russian lobbyist....who was working for Akhmetshin. Hence the anti Ukraine policy with the RNC platform


https://www.reddit.com/r/RussiaLago/comments/6nmphb/trump_campaign_chair_has_close_ties_to/


Susan Wiles was Trump's Florida campaign chair. Her husband Lanny is a pro-Russia lobbyist. Their daughter Caroline works in the White House. We learned last night that Lanny was the one who got Veselnitskaya her seat at the Congressional hearing. That's not all:

Lanny has been accused of illegally lobbying on behalf of Russia, without registering as a foreign agent. He was actually working for Akhmetshin, but was paid through the law firm BakerHostetler as a cut-out.
Susie Wiles is a former lobbyist and Trump's Florida campaign co-chair. She is a longtime friend of Paul Manafort's.
Susie Wiles was on the RNC's Rules Committee, and her co-chair Joe Gruters was on the RNC Platform Committee. They were in a position to weaken the RNC's Ukraine stance.
Their daughter, Caroline, failed her background check; however, she apparently still works in the White House.
Given that Lanny was guilty of a FARA violation and Akhmetshin knew about it, one must assume that the Russians had tremendous leverage over the entire family.