07-14-2017, 12:26 AM
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Too old to care
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Originally Posted by Rochard
Here is my take on this.....
1) The Russian attorney clearly has deep roots to Moscow. A quick look at who she's worked for says it all. She is not in the United States advocating for changing laws about adapting Russian children or getting Russians off the boycott list because it's a fun hobby.
2) Trump Jr. took the meeting with obvious intentions to violate the law. No matter how you spin it, Trump Jr. WANTED to meet with a foreign national to discuss election information.
3) Somewhere along the line Trump Jr, Jared, and or Manafort should have thought "This is a bad, bad idea" and should have called the FBI.
4) It's impossible they didn't tell Trump about this meeting before and after. There is no way the three top people in the Trump campaign all agreed to take a meeting without telling Trump about it, both before and after. Even if nothing happened, they would have discussed it with Trump.
5) This now opens up Trump Jr to investigation, as well as his emails. I wonder if there was any follow up via email.
6) Jared violated the law when he failed to disclose this meeting for his security clearance.
7) They are trying to play this off like nothing happened in this meeting, yet shortly after the meeting Trump was on Twitter discussing Hillary's emails hacked by the Russians, and hinting there was something bigger.
8) It's pretty clear that information was passed in both directions. The Russians targeted specific areas in their meddling; Clearly voting data was passed to them. At the same time, the Trump campaign seemed to know before Wikileaks was going to release damaging information.
This is great. Now it opens up Trump Jr to the investigation. They get to read all of his emails too. Can't wait to see what they find.
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So it is illegal for a member of the election team to visit foreign officials. Does that cover all foreign officials?
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