Exclusive: Two other Trump advisers also spoke with Russian envoy during GOP convention

[DonViejo]

Source: USA Today



Steve Reilly , USA TODAY 5:00 p.m. ET March 2, 2017

Attorney General Jeff Sessions is not the only member of President Trump’s campaign who spoke to Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak at a diplomacy conference connected to the Republican National Convention in July. At least two more members of the Trump campaign’s national security officials also spoke with Kislyak at the event, and several more Trump national security advisers were in attendance.

It's unknown what the Trump campaign officials who spoke with the ambassador – J.D. Gordon and Carter Page – discussed with him. Those who took part in the events in Cleveland said it is not unusual for presidential campaign teams to interact with diplomats.

However, the newly-revealed communications further contradict months of repeated denials by Trump officials that his campaign had contact with officials representing the Russian government.

The Justice Department’s acknowledgement Wednesday that Sessions spoke with Kislyak twice in 2016 has led to calls for him to recuse himself from investigations into the Trump team’s contact with Russia. By Thursday afternoon, Sessions said he would recuse himself.

Read more: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2017/03/02/exclusive-two-other-trump-advisers-also-spoke-russian-envoy-during-gop-convention/98648190/

[Hekate]

1. Kick

[iluvtennis]

2. The gift that keeps on giving :-)

[mpcamb]

29. Throw their sorry asses under the bus, too.

TREASONOUS CONSPIRATORS THAT THEY ARE!

[KingCharlemagne]

3. What in the fuck was a Russian diplomat doing at a national

political convention, other than trying to interfere in our democratic processes????

I'm all in favor of diplomacy but, really, how in the fuck can an Ambassador from a hostile foreign power be at a political convention??

Somebody has some serious 'splainin' to do.

[StarryNite]

4. Exactly!

[iluvtennis]

33. +100 nt

[mobeau69]

6. What in the fuck was a Russian diplomat doing at trump Tower?

Nancy and Chuck are in attack mode. Keep it up. Get these rats out of the WH.

[tanyev]

5. Republican Red is starting to take on a whole new meaning.

[ffr]

7. It's not a coincidence. The only color they favor more is green.

Money is the source of all their pleasure. Live and prosperity or helping others has little to no meaning.

[ffr]

8. tRump should resign. These are all his picks, all reflections upon him.

It's one disaster after another with this clown. Or is that by intention. What you say Putin?

[mobeau69]

12. But he only hires the best. The very, very best.

[icymist]

9. Russian spy Carter Page?

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/08/world/europe/carter-page-donald-trump-moscow-russia.html

MOSCOW — Carter Page, an early foreign policy adviser to Donald J. Trump who was scrutinized by the F.B.I. on suspicion of private communications with senior Russian officials over the summer, was back in Moscow on Thursday.

Mr. Page was closelipped about the purpose of his visit, telling RIA Novosti, a Russian state-run news agency, that he would stay in Moscow until Tuesday and would meet with “business leaders and thought leaders.”

Mr. Page, who founded an investment company in New York called Global Energy Capital, drew attention during the summer for a speech that criticized the United States and other Western nations for a “hypocritical focus on ideas such as democratization, inequality, corruption and regime change” in Russia and in other parts of the former Soviet Union.

He worked as an investment banker in Russia for at least three years in the 2000s, advising on several major transactions involving Russian state companies. Mr. Page’s extensive business links in Russia prompted suggestions that he might be serving Mr. Trump as a back-channel liaison with senior Kremlin officials.

Link to tweet

[Mars and Minerva]

24. "Thought Leaders"

[Skittles]

10. which one of TRUMP INC. *DIDN'T* collaborate with Russia?

TREASONOUS BASTARDS

[colorado_ufo]

19. Amen!

How much "diplomatic" involvement with one country is necessary during a political campaign? The whole thing - and the whole crowd - smells like seven day old fish in 95 degree heat.

Even Ivanka had to take a stupid "vacation" with Putin's girlfriend during the middle of the campaign and visit - what - Croatia? Not like Hawaii or Paris or Tuscany.

What a crock.

[yardwork]

21. Sounds like they were checking out the pipeline.

[colorado_ufo]

22. Or passing documents.

No more reliable - or gullible? - courier than one's daughter.

[yardwork]

23. Ivanka doesn't strike me as gullible.

[colorado_ufo]

38. No, but we all have a blind eye

when it comes to our parents.

[TubbersUK]

11. Regarding JD Gordon

This might be interesting if it's correct

Link to tweet

ETA:

According to two Republican delegates, the Trump campaign’s efforts were led in part by J.D. Gordon, a Trump campaign official and a former spokesman at the Pentagon.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/08/03/trump-campaign-changed-ukraine-platform-lied-about-it.html

[wishstar]

14. J.D. Gordon 's Wikipedia entry also mentions his role in platform regarding Ukraine

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_D._Gordon

"In February 2016, Gordon officially endorsed Donald Trump for president.

In March, he joined the Trump Campaign as the Director of National Security, managing the National Security Advisory Committee under its Chairman, Senator Jeff Sessions (R. - Ala.). In July, during the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio, Gordon reportedly played a key policy role in the GOP Platform development. This includes advising delegates who defeated an amendment calling for lethal assistance to Ukraine in its struggle against Russia."

[lanlady]

17. That is sensational info

Seems like the Russians were dictating RNC foreign policy positions!

[yardwork]

20. Quid pro quo. That's more than we ever had on the Bushes, right there.

[Judi Lynn]

13. Who in Trump's group hasn't been connected to this cluster event?

[center]

J D Gordon



Carter Page

[red dog 1]

30. J.D. Gordon has no eyebrows,

and he looks like Mao Tse-tung!

[ancianita]

15. A timeline of Russian contact frames a chain of likely intel evidence for a treason charge.

[elmac]

16. Sessions caught in the act

Link to tweet

[yardwork]

18. Why the coverup if this was so innocent?

Why the vehement denials unless they have something to hide?

[cstanleytech]

26. So anyone care to guess how they are probably taking this over FreeRepublic?

Their popular ones are usually "its all a liberal media conspiracy" to the new and upcoming "its all Obama and his shadowy government" though of course we shouldnt ignore their oldest one of simple sticking their fingers in their ears and going " la la la la la la".

[bronxiteforever]

27. Kick

[C_U_L8R]

28. Carter Page on with Chris Hayes now.

Furiously digging himself into a deeper hole.
Hilarious.

[wishstar]

35. When asked about the post-election Rosneft deal, Page mentioned Marc Rich

The silly weasel made sure to deflect from identity of current mysterious billionaires who own Glencore, involved in the Rosneft deal (reportedly involving Trump's buddy who bought Trump property in Palm Beach)

Page threw out the name Marc Rich (pardoned by Bill Clinton) who founded Glencore as a way to distract and make it sound like Clintons have some kind of involvement in this mess. In fact, Marc Rich sold out his entire interest in Glencore in 1993 and died in 2013 so had no involvement whatsoever in this Rosneft deal.

That plus his other off the wall attacks on Hillary were so obviously goofy ploys to shift focus away from Trump/Russia collusiion

[PRETZEL]

37. I saw him also

was too hard to pay attention because I was laughing at him soo much.

[red dog 1]

31. K&R...Thanks for posting

[bluecollar2]

32. BENGHAZI !!!!!!!!!!!!!! Emails!!!!!!!!!...n/t

[UCmeNdc]

34. It is now time to put them under oath and ask what was being discussed

Did they ask the Russians to help to flip the election for Donald Trump?

[C_U_L8R]

36. Carter Page under oath would be hilarious

A good prosecutor might just wipe that grin off his face.