Mysterious blocked calls went to longtime Trump family friends: Sources

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Source: abc

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The calls to blocked numbers, which came on June 6, and after the meeting on June 9, were between Trump Jr.’s cell phone and two family friends -- NASCAR CEO Brian France and real estate developer Howard Lorber, according to the sources.

Both men have close ties to President Donald Trump and actively supported his campaign during the 2016 election.

When France announced his endorsement of Trump’s candidacy – a decision that drew backlash from the professional driving community – the campaign released a statement, penned by France, in which he said Trump’s “leadership and strength are desperately needed.” At a campaign rally in February 2016, France appeared beside Trump, who he said he had known for more than 20 years, and lauded him as a “winner.”

Trump’s ties with Lorber run even deeper, and have attracted the interest of congressional investigators, sources said. In the 1990s, when Trump started exploring real estate options in Russia, Lorber accompanied him on a tour of Moscow. A real estate developer who has done business there, Lorber appeared in a biographical video of Trump that aired on jumbotrons at the 2016 Republican National Convention before his acceptance speech.

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[Beakybird]

1. Where was the location of the recipient(s)?

[flibbitygiblets]

2. Swampsylvania.

[Lulu KC]

4. Thank you.

That is hilarious. I will use this word with great pleasure!

[Xipe Totec]

3. Two more witnesses for Muller nt

[PubliusEnigma]

5. This is Trump's feeble attempt to deflect what Mueller is about to drop tomorrow.

[onenote]

32. Did Mueller "drop" something on Friday?

[PubliusEnigma]

33. The court filings from last Thursday will be made public.

In the past it had happened the next day. (like with Stone or Manafort)

Next week?

[watoos]

6. So who saw the phone records?

I want to hear that it wasn't Trump from Adam Schiff.

[OnDoutside]

22. No, it's probably from a Trump jr source.

[Hoyt]

7. Another piece of possible evidence down without implicating trump directly. Had hoped trump was on

the other end.

trump was still colluding with Ruskies, at a minimum playing the USA for his own enrichment, but that was an important piece of evidence lots of folks hoped would implicate trump.

[watoos]

9. The people on the other end of the phone call,

have not confirmed the calls. I don't trust the Senate committee. Call me a doubting Thomas until Adam Schiff says it wasn't Trump.

[Hoyt]

11. Do they need to confirm it, or does the phone company have the real info? I don't know, honestly.

You are right about the Senate committee.

But I know I woke up two or three times at night to turn on the news for months hoping to hear george war bush indicted, right up to FitzGerald's announcement.

[watoos]

12. The article is sketchy,

it doesn't say that the Senate committee subpoenaed the phone records. I wouldn't think that Uday would be allowed to have them. I certainly wouldn't take Jr.'s word who the calls went to.

I just smell a rat here. Schiff has been talking a lot about subpoenaing those phone records, funny how the Senate beat him to it.

Cohen already testified that Trump knew about the meeting.

[Hoyt]

14. Well, Cohen is not particularly trustworthy. Although trump had to know

something, even if Junior was just bragging to daddy how much progress he was making with the Ruskies. But everyone knows it, except the people who could do something about it don’t care.

[watoos]

17. OK this is it then off to bed, here's one more;

Who is to say that the businessman, businessmen, weren't sitting in Trumps office with their phones on speaker?

I suppose that Mueller has the GPS coordinates of those 2 phones at the time of the calls along with that of Dad's?

This treason shit is keeping me up at night.

[Hoyt]

18. I agree with you, even if it wasn't trump's number. We know he's guilty and a traitor.

Proving it — especially where Senate and white wingers will be mad enough to do anything about it — is tough.

We’ll get the traitor if no more than indicting his kids and sending trump packing in 2020, a disgraced man.

[KPN]

28. My, you are objective Hoyt!

I'm not comfortable with objectivity in this particular case. Let's just string the guy up by his balls, and then immediately after that, by his neck. Proof be damned!

[Calista241]

30. Civilian GPS isn't that accurate, maybe within 50 feet or so.

and with a 50 foot margin of error, that could mean anything, especially if they were both in Trump tower. Certainly not within an acceptable margin required by a court. I'm not sure how GPS trackers on phones work with altitude, so i don't think you could determine what floor they were on.

[Merlot]

24. Those people could have loaned trumpft their phone.

trumpft could have been sitting in the same room.

They could have called trumpft and told them what don jr said.

Means nothing.

[Hoyt]

25. Maybe. But it's not nearly as provable as a call directly to trump. It'll take Mueller months

to prove your theory, but we don't have months. Then, you'd have to convince Senators it's an issue, which likely won't happen. Then, maybe you could convince enough trump supporters to put pressure on their Senators, but that's not going to happen because the trump supporters already know trump is a cad, crook, traitor, etc., and they don't care.

No jury would convict trump based upon "well he could have called the NASCAR crook, who called trump."

Unless the story is inaccurate, this line -- Jr called daddy to report his progress with Ruskies right after meeting -- is over as far as trump. Jr on the other hand, might be caught.

[watoos]

8. Lorber doesn't remember the phone call with Jr.

and France isn't answering his phone.

I don't trust Burr on the Senate committee, for that matter, I'm leery of Warner.

I will wait for Adam Schiff to investigate.

[rso]

29. Phone calls

Just curious as to why you are leery of Warner.

[Calista241]

31. They're asking him about a single phone call he had over 3 years ago.

I couldn't tell you who i talked to on the phone 3 months ago. He's probably just going to say "pull my phone records, and if they say there's a call there, then we had a call."

[EveHammond13]

10. so they are implicated?

[rickford66]

13. If true, why didn't they clear Trump in these calls ?

[pnwmom]

15. Stone says he was often called on blocked phones that belonged to Trump's friends.

Howard Lorber was a friend Trump met with on June 8, 2016. For all we know Trump was also with him on the 6th or the 9th -- and borrowed his phone.

https://therealdeal.com/2016/06/09/trump-held-fundraising-meeting-with-top-nyc-developers/

Donald Trump is tapping his friends and former peers in the New York real estate development community to help fund his presidential run.

Trump reportedly met with a who’s-who of the city’s top builders yesterday, part of an effort to ramp up his campaign fundraising as he pivots to the general election. Developers reportedly in attendance included the LeFrak Organization’s Richard LeFrak, the Vector Group and Douglas Elliman’s Howard Lorber, Vornado Realty Trust’s Steven Roth, Imperial Companies’ Michael Fascitelli, and Steve Witkoff, Bloomberg reported

[liberalmuse]

16. What sources?

Anyone notice an even more frantic push from the right lately? Somethings going down soon. Or someone.

[More_Cowbell]

20. I don't believe for a second that there were easily provable friends who called Trump Jr

And he didn't put them forward. I think this is a sham.

[lagomorph777]

21. +1 "Sources" are probably Donald Turd Sr. and Jr.

BS

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23. Lorber brought Trump to Russia in 1996. kick.

[C_U_L8R]

26. The Russian Connection

"Hello Mr Lorber, this is the special prosecutor's office calling"

[TubbersUK]

27. "Howard Lorber took Trump to Moscow in 1996 to discuss building a Trump Tower there" :

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