Trump personally met with Russian ambassador during campaign

[deminks]

Source: Think Progress

Donald Trump has claimed repeatedly that he has had no contact with Russian officials as a presidential candidate.

He was lying.

Trump personally met with the Russian ambassador on April 27, 2016, prior to a major foreign policy speech. The Wall Street Journal, in a report that was little-noticed at the time but was recently picked up by AMERICABlog News, reported the meeting last year.

A few minutes before he made those remarks, Mr. Trump met at a VIP reception with Russias ambassador to the U.S., Sergey Ivanovich Kislyak. Mr. Trump warmly greeted Mr. Kislyak and three other foreign ambassadors who came to the reception.

Kislyak, according to multiple contemporaneous news reports, was seated in the front row. It was an invitation-only event.

Read more: https://thinkprogress.org/trump-personally-met-with-russian-ambassador-during-campaign-cc59ae305032#.80c6aqxav

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photo at the link

Who is seated next to him? Why, is that James Baker?

edited to add:

Gen. Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III was also in attendance. Will he have to amend his statement to Congress all over again?

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/03/07/1641090/-Donald-Trump-met-and-warmly-greeted-the-Russian-ambassador-during-the-campaign

[Gothmog]

1. WOW

Link to tweet

?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

[Tommy_Carcetti]

2. Hopes this gets press. nt

[sarcasmo]

5. Sadly I don't think anything will take Dolt45 down.

[Crash2Parties]

11. Only when he is no longer the GOP's useful distraction to the media & populous. Could be a while.

[Solly Mack]

3. Baker has been seen with Pence as well.

At the Superbowl. Poppy Bush was also somewhere around, but Pence and Baker spent a lot of time together.

I think so-called establishment republicans take their concerns to Pence and bypass Trump.



Of course Trump lied.

[PatSeg]

4. You know

that could have been a perfectly innocent meeting, but Trump lied about it. It is probably going to be all his damn lies that will bring him down more than what he was actually doing. Once again, it is the cover up, not the crime.

Trump is such a prolific liar, he undoubtedly does not know what he has said or done in the past.

[riversedge]

7. Agree-yet his fans do not seem to care that he Lies. And Repugs in Congress are basically silent

about his lies. There does not seem to be a tipping point--or Enough is Enough for these folks.

[PatSeg]

16. I've never seen anything like it

It would seem that Trump really cannot do anything to turn off his hard core base. He was right when he said he could shoot someone on Fifth Ave and not lose a single voter. Even he was amazed.

[mahina]

28. Last night Chris Hedges had a trumpeter on who wouldn't respond to the blatant lies,

but Chris didn't call them what they were. Lies!

Come on, man!

[riversedge]

6. Explain yourself Mr. so-called President!

[TeamPooka]

8. GOP don't care. Putin must own them too.

[dalton99a]

18. Putin is their national hero.

[C_U_L8R]

9. If only...

it was three lies and you're out !!

[rockfordfile]

10. True

[Kablooie]

12. Well get some shocking tweets tonight.

He will want to change everyone's attention.

[Saboburns]

24. My tea leaves tell me

Trump will besmirch the CIA. Even moreso than he already has.

And it will be soon i think .

[angrychair]

13. Lying liars lie

So it says

Mr. Trump warmly greeted Mr. Kislyak and three other foreign ambassadors who came to the reception.

Who were the other three ambassadors?
If I were to guess I would say Qutar, Azerbaijan and China. All countries he has significant financial interests in.

I say it a little tongue in cheek but I ask the question seriously as a private meeting with 4 specific ambassadors is as exclusive an audience as you get.

[Igel]

22. The problem is the phrase "met with."

The article only justifies "met", not "met with".

I met Shimon Perez. I didn't meet with him. It was at a reception. We spoke, presumably "warmly," for a few minutes.

If we played "telephone," after that was transmitted a few times I'd be alleged to be in deep intrigue with Perez. In spite of the fact that all I said was I was in a Slavic graduate program and, in response to, "Mowisz po-polsku" I shook my head and said, "Nie ... Ale mluvim cesky, rusky, a srpsky." He understood the Czech, and we stayed in English for the next couple of minutes.

What we have here is eisegesis. It's like exegesis, where you dig meaning out of a speaker's words, but in reverse--you furiously shove crap into them to make them mean what you need them to mean.

[ColemanMaskell]

25. So eisegesis is a sort of pedantic obfuscation meaning inference ?

[LanternWaste]

37. Textual criticism is not eisegesis... they are two wholly different concepts.

You seem to infer 'met' as a verb has merely one, rather than seven different meanings dependent on context. Textual criticism is not eisegesis... they are two wholly different concepts.

[red dog 1]

14. K&R

Another falsehood by the Liar-in-Chief

Imagine how the Repubs would have reacted to Obama lying about something this important?

[gerryatwork]

15. Liar-in-Chief

Just added Liar-in-Chief to the Urban Dictionary. Which they should approve. I've already added Trumpocalypse, Trumped, Fake President, and Russiagate

[Fast Walker 52]

19. haha, good job!

[ColemanMaskell]

26. Didja get Twitler and Cheetolini? Those seemed good. We need a Don-the-Con nicknames holding area

[grantcart]

17. kick

[Behind the Aegis]

20. From April 2016

Trump fails to impress foreign-policy experts

A speech aimed at boosting his credibility got low marks from across the spectrum.

By Michael Crowley
| 04/27/16 05:58 PM EDT


In his address to an elite, invitation-only Washington foreign policy audience Wednesday, Donald Trump promised that, as president, he would restore a “coherent” vision to America’s role in the world.

...


One notable figure sitting in the front row as Trump repeated his call for better relations with Moscow — “I believe an easing of tensions and improved relations with Russia, from a position of strength, is possible. Common sense says this cycle of hostility must end,” Trump said — was Russia’s ambassador to Washington, Sergey Kislyak. (Trump “made some intriguing points, but we need to understand what is meant in the implementation,” Kislyak told POLITICO after the speech. “It needs to be started carefully.”)

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/04/donald-trump-foreign-policy-speech-reaction-222544
[hr]
Still can't find who the other three ambassadors were.

[ColemanMaskell]

30. Italy, Philippines, and Singapore apparently

On Wednesday, April 27, the Center for the National Interest’s magazine The National Interest hosted leading Republican Presidential Candidate Donald Trump for a foreign policy speech as a part of its continuing coverage of the 2016 electoral campaign. Zalmay Khalilzad, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Afghanistan and Iraq, introduced Mr. Trump. Ambassador Khalilzad is also one of the members of The National Interest advisory council and the Center’s board of directors. Center Chairman General Charles Boyd, board members Drew Guff, Grover Norquist and President Dimitri Simes also took part. Other participants included Senator Jeff Sessions, several Members of the House of Representatives and the ambassadors of Italy, the Philippines, Russia and Singapore.

http://americablog.com/2017/03/newsmax-trump-met-russian-amb-kislyak-last-april-despite-denials.html

[Behind the Aegis]

32. Thanks!

I wonder if it was the Italian ambassador who said; "He (the current "president&quot is like Berlusconi with nukes." I read that unsourced quote in another article.

[ColemanMaskell]

35. Good quote!

[ColemanMaskell]

31. The link back to the source quoted by that

https://cftni.org/recent-events/donald-trump-delivers-foreign-policy-speech/

[FailureToCommunicate]

21. K & R

[Marcuse]

23. "Do you expect me to talk? Okay!"

[dchill]

29. "No, Mr Bond. I expect you to die."

[C_U_L8R]

27. For crying out loud

This liar needs to go. Congress, do your job!

[UCmeNdc]

33. Trump will lie. Put him under oath.

There is more to this story.

[March 4th]

34. To Trump and the GOP,

Kislyak = Kiss His Ass, apparently.

[kimbutgar]

36. Remember Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were sentenced to death for giving secrets to Russia?

Now we have a scrotus who encouraged, and was all right with Russia influencing our election and installing their puppet. Cheeto is a Russian asset now,