Intelligence Committee Democrats: Trump Jr.'s reported meeting with Arab representative could be cri

[jpak]

Source: USA Today

WASHINGTON — The top Democrats on the Senate and House intelligence committees said Sunday Trump campaign officials may have committed a crime if a new report proves true: that three months before the 2016 election, President Trump’s son met an emissary for two Arab princes and an Israeli political operative who offered to help his father win the presidential election.

On Saturday, the New York Times reported that Donald Trump Jr. met on Aug. 3, 2016 with a representative for two wealthy princes, from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, along with Joel Zamel, an Israeli expert in “social media manipulation.”

The men reportedly told Trump Jr. that they wanted to support the Trump campaign. Zamel even said his firm “had already drawn up a multimillion-dollar proposal for a social media manipulation effort to help elect Mr. Trump,” according to the New York Times story.

“If these facts are accurate, it demonstrates yet again just how not only willing but eager the president’s son and the Trump campaign were to solicit, to receive foreign help” during the election, Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif, said on NBC’s Meet the Press. Schiff is the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee.

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Intelligence Committee Democrats: Trump Jr.'s reported meeting with Arab representative could be crime

[H2O Man]

1. Recommended.

Very important. Thanks for this!

[writes3000]

2. I hope all Senate Dems really around this. It's deadly serious.

[Botany]

3. Joel Zamel

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/388524-mueller-probing-israeli-businessman-connected-to-uae?rnd=1526833614

Special counsel Robert Mueller is probing Israeli businessman Joel Zamel after it was revealed he met with Donald Trump Jr. prior to the 2016 presidential election, according to The Wall Street Journal.

The Journal reviewed a subpoena regarding Zamel's work, including his crowdsourced analysis firm known as Wikistrat and a private intelligence firm known as the Psy Group.

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The Psy Group reportedly conducts private intelligence work and is a competitor of Israeli intelligence firm Black Cube, which is linked to filmmaker Harvey Weinstein who reportedly used the firm to block investigations into his alleged sexual abuses.

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The group also touted its "strong operating capabilities within the ‘Deep Web’ and Darknet (often referred to as the ‘Dark Side’ of the Internet),” the Journal reported.

[Doodley]

4. Trump might be able to evade the law, but when his family members are brought down,

his presidency will become very weak and may continue for a while as he protests, but it will spell the end.

[BigmanPigman]

5. I am sure he will pardon them

and if he can't do that they will be thrown under the bus (they ALL are disposable to him, not just Jared).

[Doodley]

7. He will lose the support of many GOP lawmakers if he pardons his own family for serious crimes.

He will lose the support of independents and part of his Republican supporters.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

8. If he pardons them between being charged and tried then they have to talk. No 5th protection.

If he tries to hold off pardoning, then the trial could be very embarrassing anyway. If he lets it go far enough to conviction, then history will forever record their crime.

[NCjack]

6. Always nice to see the words "Trump, Jr." and "crime" in the same sentence. nt

[ProudProgressiveNow]

9. KR NT

[Achilleaze]

10. Dirty Donny Junior deserves his own private traitor cell

[LudwigPastorius]

11. It looks like Don the Lesser is in big trouble.

"It shall be unlawful for a foreign national directly or through any other person to make any contribution of money or other thing of value, or to promise expressly or impliedly to make any such contribution, in connection with an election to any political office or in connection with any primary election, convention, or caucus held to select candidates for any political office; or for any person to solicit, accept, or receive any such contribution from a foreign national."

...especially if Cohen testifies against him re: Trump Tower meeting and his general solicitation of foreign election aid.

[NBachers]

12. Trump campaign was a serial offender in soliciting foreign donations.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/09/26/donald-trump-keeps-asking-foreign-leaders-for-money-the-latest-vicente-fox/?utm_term=.526817e9b94b