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pnwmom

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Mon Oct 16, 2017, 06:28 PM Oct 2017

Foreign Policy publishes the full memo that the Russian lawyer took to meet with Junior

and others in Trump tower.

It has nothing to do with Hillary Clinton, and everything to do with Bill Browder, the Magnitsky Act, and the sanctions Russia wanted lifted.

http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/10/16/heres-memo-kremlin-lawyer-took-to-meeting-donald-trump-jr/

Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya arrived at a June 2016 meeting with Donald Trump Jr. armed with a set of talking points arguing American officials were hoodwinked into slapping human rights sanctions on Russia in 2012 and that efforts to expand those measures would hurt relations between Washington and Moscow.

According to her talking points, obtained by Foreign Policy, Veselnitskaya made the case that the American businessman Bill Browder perpetrated a massive scheme of tax fraud against the Russian state and then launched a global campaign claiming that his companies had in fact been defrauded by Russian officials — and that they had killed the lawyer Sergei Magnitsky in order to cover it up.

That June 2016 meeting has landed in the crosshairs of investigators examining whether aides to Donald Trump conspired with Kremlin operatives in their alleged effort to boost the real estate mogul’s campaign by hacking into Democratic Party computer systems and leaking stolen documents online.

White House senior advisor Jared Kushner and then-Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort also attended the meeting with the Kremlin-connected lawyer Veselnitskaya, who brought with her a Russian-American lobbyist, Rinat Akhmetshin, with ties to Russian intelligence. The meeting was organized with the help of Rob Goldstone, a British publicist, who emailed Trump Jr. ahead of the gathering to tell him that his Russian contacts were in possession of “sensitive information” supplied by the Kremlin on Democratic rival Hillary Clinton.



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Foreign Policy publishes the full memo that the Russian lawyer took to meet with Junior (Original Post) pnwmom Oct 2017 OP
Good post, thx. n/t StrictlyRockers Oct 2017 #1
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