Evidence Suggests Russian Intelligence Pipeline To Trump Campaign
Source: HuffPo, AP
Days after Donald Trump Jr. hosted a group of Russians at Trump Tower promising to deliver damaging information on the Democratic National Committee and presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, a hacker believed connected to the Russian government released a trove of documents online ― including ones that sound similar to those reportedly provided to Trump Jr.
Ranit Akhmetshin, a Russian American lobbyist and former Soviet counterintelligence officer, told The Associated Press on Friday he took part in the meeting on June 9, 2016, along with Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya. Akhmetshin said Veselnitskaya brought a folder full of documents, which he said she left behind after the meeting.
The documents detailed the Democratic National Committees finances and funding sources, some of which Veselnitskaya described as unlawful, Akhmetshin told the AP.
Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/trump-jr-russian-intelligence_us_5969356ee4b0d6341fe8f28f
Mini-Trump has lied so much about the meeting that we should assume his statements denying anything substantive about the meeting are lies too.
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