TAKE THE POLL: HOW LONG BEFORE TRUMP GETS IMPEACHED
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... and its taken you THIS LONG to determine that, huh? Trump's our habitual liar-n-chief; they even track the number of lies he tells per day, now. He told 4 lies on Friday (15th) before noon ... amazing, he is. People don't even flinch at his lies now, as its just assumed he'll lie when his lips start moving. But no worry, he's committing perjury at the rate of once or twice a week now ... shouldn't be too much longer.
Wow, that's quite a trick since he hasn't been placed under oath in any case since becoming president, nor has he submitted any declarations under penalty of perjury. But what a few FACTS matter to you when you have hyperbole to spread.
Are you Ok with your leader being a liar? Just interested.
Don't ruin this site with your political bullshit. This is not CNN.
Yeah, get the REAL FACTS from
, that's where the President gets his. .................
You just made my point. Let's keep talking about politics cause that's more fun than sex. Idiot
Been busy but I ain't forget you Mofos. Back to the whack job we got in office here and his imported not made nor American first lady... geezus
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That's great, we'll show that we care - we can't mess that up ... oh wait.
Its just a jacket, there is no hidden MSG. Right its definitely not a hidden MSG cause its right there for everyone in plain sight to see!
#Compassion is not a weakness and Cruelty is not a strength!
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I don't get it, I really don't. The election of trump as your president has turned on its head the view of the USA in the rest of the world. How can this guy be in office? Today he is from page news here in the UK because he is making noises like he's going to pull out of NATO! Is he working for Russia? I mean, is he?
lol - keep scrolling through this thread from the begging and look at all the facts and evidence presented. Yes Trump was elected as US President but not by the majority and there is a majority larger who don't find him favorable than who do. Chump's support base hovers at only 30% of the representative US electorate. If he continues his pull out of the world humane org, world trade org, tarriff trade wars, pro-baby snatching policies we shall see how much longer that 30% remain too.
But bottomline the man without a doubt IS as they would say in Russia
"Kompromat"
He knows it, they know it and the truth although burried under a mountain of lies will eventually surface to see the light of day and shine a big light on the liars who've shoveled so many falsehoods to cover up their dirt and corruption.
AND JUST FOR THE RECORD LETS RECAP WHERE WE ARE AT WITH THE NO CRIME COMMITTED, NO LAW BROKEN, NOR TREASON BY COMRADE MOSCOVIAN CANDIDATE-KREMLIN GATE TRUMPSKY.
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He knows it, they know it and the truth although burried under a mountain of lies will eventually surface to see the light of day and shine a big light on the liars who've shoveled so many falsehoods to cover up their dirt and corruption.
AND JUST FOR THE RECORD LETS RECAP WHERE WE ARE AT WITH THE NO CRIME COMMITTED, NO LAW BROKEN, NOR TREASON BY COMRADE MOSCOVIAN CANDIDATE-KREMLIN GATE TRUMPSKY.
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The following men from Trump's team have ALL plead guilty to charges related to the Russian (Kremlin-gate) investigation. * I will add links to all of these bullets below soon. *
1.George Papadopoulos plead Guilty for lying to the FBI related to the Russian Investigation WHILE SERVING IN THE TRUMP ELECTION CAMPAIGN
2. Michael Flynn plead Guilty for lying to the FBI about his conversations with the Russian Ambassador WHILE SERVING IN THE TRUMP ELECTION CAMPAIGN
3. Paul Manafort's right-hand man Rick Gates plead guilty to federal conspiracy charges and failing to register as Foreign Agents WHILE SERVING IN THE TRUMP ELECTION CAMPAIGN
4. Paul Manafort's *******-in-law cut a plea-deal with Federal prosecutors to cooperate on any and all open criminal investigations into himself and others he many know about.
5. Roger Stone WHILE SERVING IN THE TRUMP ELECTION CAMPAIGN has admitted to having been in contact with a Russian agent to discuss about the hacked Demo National Caucus emails. He is under investigation for his correspondence with WikiLeaks who was in coordination with 23 indicted Russians who worked for the Internet Research Agency which flooded US Facebook, and twitter social media networks with false election stories.
6. Paul Manafort was found guilty of witness tampering (of individuals in Europe & Ukraine with a nexus to Russia) and ordered to remain in prison until his upcoming court trial for Federal charges.
7. Michael Cohen accepted millions of dollars from Russians WHILE SERVING IN THE TRUMP ELECTION CAMPAIGN, has fired his old lawyers and hired a new attorney who used to work with the same NY district that is prosecuting him which tells you what? He will be cutting a deal to cooperate, and then very, very soon ...
LOOK WHO IS GOING TO BE LEFT STANDING IN THE CENTER OF THE BULLS-EYE WITH EVERYONE ELSE COOPERATING WITH THE FEDS:
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Wha, Wha, Wha (im having another tantrum cause the media's not fair they call me out in all my B.S.)
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Wha, Wha, Wha (im having another tantrum cause the media's not fair they call me out in all my B.S.)
I'll let my man Colbert break it all down for you here again:
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I could go on for days and days about how Chump and his band of merry men are all without a doubt as they would say in Russia
"Kompromat"
I could go on for days and days about how Chump and his band of merry men are all without a doubt as they would say in Russia
"Kompromat"
but i got other better ******* to do. His day of reckoning is coming and he knows he is on borrowed time.
- Prosecutors working for the special counsel Robert Mueller told a federal judge they have long suspected former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort of serving as a "back channel" between the campaign and Russia during the 2016 election.
- The revelation came during a hearing this week over whether Mueller overstepped his authority when he charged Manafort with crimes related to his Ukraine lobbying work and not Russian collusion.
- Manafort's lawyers also argue that deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein gave Mueller an overly broad mandate.
The special counsel Robert Mueller's office has charged Manafort with 23 counts related to money laundering, failing to register as a foreign agent, tax evasion, bank fraud, and conspiracy against the US. Most of the charges so far center around Manafort's lobbying work for the Ukrainian government, the pro-Russian Party of Regions, and former Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych.
Manafort's attorneys have mounted an aggressive defense against Mueller's office since then, arguing that deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein gave Mueller an overly broad mandate, and that Mueller overstepped his authority when he charged Manafort for crimes unrelated to Russian collusion.
Kevin Downing, Manafort's main defense lawyer, argued to US District Judge Amy Berman Jackson in Washington, DC that Rosenstein's order appointing Mueller, which authorizes him to investigate Russia's interference in the election and "any matters that arose or may arise directly from the investigation," does not cover Manafort's consulting work in Ukraine.
Michael Dreeben, a seasoned prosecutor working on Mueller's team, pushed back and said they were justified in probing Manafort because of his status as Trump's campaign chairman and his "long-standing ties to Russia-backed politicians."
"Did they provide back channels to Russia?" Dreeben said. "Investigators will naturally look at those things."
When Trump first hired Manafort in March 2016, Manafort was known for having worked as a top consultant to Yanukovych, and is widely credited with helping him win the election in 2010.
Yanukovych, a strongman and a prominent figure in the Party of Regions, was ousted from the presidency in 2014 amid widespread protests against his Russia-friendly positions and his decision to back out of a deal that would have promoted closer ties between Ukraine and the West, and distanced it from Russia.
A long history of ties to Russian wealth
Manafort also had his share of financial entanglements with entities related to Russia when he joined the Trump campaign.
In July, The New York Times reported financial records Manafort filed in Cyprus that showed he was $17 million in debt to pro-Russian interests when he joined the campaign. Shell companies connected to Manafort during his time working for the Party of Regions bought the debt, according to The Times.
Manafort is also associated with Oleg Deripaska, a wealthy Russian oligarch. Deripaska's representatives claimed, in legal complaints filed in the Cayman Islands in 2014, that Manafort had disappeared after Deripaska gave him $19 million to invest in a failed Ukrainian TV venture.
Deripaska is a longtime ally of the Kremlin and Russian President Vladimir Putin. Manafort's relationship with Deripaska, meanwhile, stretches back years and relates to the two men's work pushing pro-Russian interests on the world stage.
Deripaska and Manafort worked together in 2006, when Deripaska signed a $10 million annual contract with Manafort for a lobbying project in the US that Manafort said would "greatly benefit the Putin Government."
But things haven't always been rosy between them. Deripaska's representatives claimed, in legal complaints filed in the Cayman Islands in 2014, that Manafort had disappeared after Deripaska gave him and his longtime associate Rick Gates $19 million to invest in a failed Ukrainian TV venture in 2007.
Last year, The Washington Post reported that Manafort emailed the former Russian military intelligence operative Konstantin Kilimnik, beginning in April 2016, offering to give Deripaska "private briefings" about the Trump campaign. Former intelligence officials told Business Insider that the offer was likely part of Manafort's effort to resolve his financial dispute with Deripaska.
Manafort and Kilimnik met in May and August during the 2016 campaign.
Three days before his August meeting with Manafort, Kilimnik wrote in an email to the Trump campaign chairman that he had "met today with the guy who gave you your biggest black caviar jar several years ago," a reference to Deripaska's previous loans to Manafort. "We spent about 5 hours talking about his story, and I have several important messages from him to you," he wrote.
"I need about two hours because it is a long caviar story to tell," he added.
Manafort said he and Kilimnik discussed the Trump campaign and the recent hack of the Democratic National Committee during the August 2, 2016 meeting. Kilimnik, meanwhile, said they did not discuss the campaign, but talked about "current news" and "unpaid bills."
Within hours of the meeting, a private jet linked to Deripaska arrived in Newark, New Jersey, which is close to where Manafort and Kilimnik met. It left within 24 hours.
Manafort was also one of three Trump campaign officials to meet with two Russian lobbyists offering kompromat on Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in June 2016.
Mueller and Manafort duke it out
Mueller's office said in an April 2 court filing that any investigation into ties between the Trump campaign and Russia "would naturally cover ties that a former Trump campaign manager had to Russian-associated political operatives, Russian-backed politicians, and Russian oligarchs."
"It would also naturally look into any interactions they may have had before and during the campaign to plumb motives and opportunities to coordinate and to expose possible channels for surreptitious communications," it added. "And prosecutors would naturally follow the money trail from Manafort's Ukrainian consulting activities. Because investigation of those matters was authorized, so was prosecution.
Meanwhile, Downing, Manafort's attorney, called into question the timing of a memo Rosenstein sent to Mueller in August 2017. The memo authorizes Mueller to investigate specific allegations related to Manafort, including his Ukraine lobbying work and possible collusion with Russia.
Rosenstein appointed Mueller special counsel last May, and Downing suggested Rosenstein sent the memo almost three months later because he had failed to properly outline the scope of Mueller's investigative focus at the time of his appointment, as mandated by Justice Department regulations.
Rosenstein sent the memo in August, Downing said, because "he realizes he got something wrong" when appointing Mueller in May.
Dreeben countered Downing's argument and said the August memo confirmed what prosecutors suspected about Manafort's activities when Mueller was appointed, adding that Mueller is required to regularly report on the status of the investigation and its findings to Rosenstein.
"It's not a blank check," Dreeben said. "It's not a carte blanche."
ref: http://www.businessinsider.com/mueller-paul-manafort-russia-backchannel-trump-2018-4
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Just to back up the last post - here is a more recent article as of June 27th I present as evidence to the public jury here... smells like collusion and kompromat to me.
ref: http://www.businessinsider.com/cour...ipaska-loaned-paul-manafort-10-million-2018-6
The White House has tried to distance President Donald Trump from his former campaign chair Paul Manafort, even though their ties go back years and Manafort ran Trump’s presidential campaign at a critical juncture.
After a House Intelligence Committee hearing on Russian efforts to influence the election earlier this week, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said that Manafort played a “limited role for a very limited amount of time” in the campaign. And that was before an Associated Press report Wednesday that described documents which show Manafort orchestrated a secret plan to benefit Vladimir Putin’s Russian government in the United States and Europe, directly contradicting Manafort’s own claims he had no involvement with the Russian government.
Regardless, Manafort did not play a “limited role” in the campaign. He was involved with the campaign for five months, serving as campaign chairman for three of those months until he resigned. Moreover, his roles in the campaign, particularly Convention Manager, were crucial, and arguably prevented a derailing of Trump’s nomination through a floor fight at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland.
Here’s a timeline of Manafort’s role in the Trump campaign.
March 29, 2016: Manafort joins the Trump campaign
The Trump campaign announced it had brought on Manafort, a veteran political strategist, to help the real estate mogul prevent delegates from bolting and choosing another nominee at the Republican National Convention in July. Although Trump led the Republican field in both votes and delegates, he was still unpopular among many Republicans, and it was unclear if he would end up with the necessary delegates to prevent a floor fight at the convention. Manafort was picked in part because he was instrumental in Gerald Ford’s successful floor fight in at the 1976 convention.
“Paul is a great asset and an important addition as we consolidate the tremendous support we have received in the primaries,” Trump said in a statement on March 29, 2016.
Manafort quickly got to work, ensuring the Trump campaign had a presence during the selection process and showing up to the Republican National Committee’s spring meeting in April.
May 19, 2016: Manafort is promoted to campaign chairman
Manafort was later promoted from convention manager to campaign chairman and chief strategist. Manafort told ABC News that the Republican establishment was gathering behind Trump and acknowledging his likely nomination. “There’s a growing number of people supporting us,” he said. “They all recognize now that we definitely can win.”
One month later, Manafort’s influence within the campaign appeared even more cemented after Trump fired campaign manager Corey Lewandowski, with whom Manafort had a well-documented power struggle.
Manafort was widely seen during the RNC convention, holding daily briefings for the media and defending Melania Trump after she was accused of plagiarizing Michelle Obama in her convention speech.
August 19, 2016: Manafort resigns
The Trump campaign announced Manafort was resigning from the campaign, nearly 5 months after he joined.
“I am very appreciative for his great work in helping to get us where we are today, and in particular his work guiding us through the delegate and convention process,” Trump said in a statement. “Paul is a true professional and I wish him the greatest success.”
The Trump campaign provided no reason for Manafort’s resignation. But in the days immediately leading up to the announcement, the New York Times reported investigators were looking into $12.7 million in undisclosed cash payments to Manafort from former Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych, and the Associated Press reported he helped a pro-Russian party in Ukraine funnel money to lobbying firms in Washington, D.C.
“I think my ******* didn’t want to be distracted by whatever things Paul was dealing with,” Trump’s ******* Eric told Fox News after the resignation. “Paul was amazing, and, yes, he helped us get through the primary process, he helped us get through the convention. He did a great job with the delegates. But, again, my ******* didn’t want to have the distraction looming over the campaign.”
Shortly before Manafort’s resignation, Steve Bannon and Kellyanne Conway, now senior advisers to the White House, were brought on as the campaign’s chief executive and campaign manager, and ultimately led Trump to an unexpected victory in November.
After the election: Conflicting reports
Manafort retained the apartment he has long had in Trump Tower after his former boss was elected, records show, and he was spotted there by the press during the transition. Although the Daily Beast reported in late November that Manafort was advising Trump on Cabinet picks, his name was never included on the official roster of transition team members.
March 20, 2017: White House downplays involvement
Spicer downplayed Manafort’s role at a briefing Monday, as FBI Director James Comey was testifying at a congressional hearing about possible Russian meddling in the election. “Obviously, there’s been a discussion of Paul Manafort, who played a very limited role for a very limited amount of time,” Spicer said.
“I probably should’ve focused more on the time he was there than the role he played,” Spicer later acknowledged to CNN.
ref: http://fortune.com/2017/03/22/paul-manafort-donald-trump-vladimir-Poroshenko/
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TUCK FRUMP!!!!! - THIS CHUMP'S RUMP IS ALMOST COOKED HERE.
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Not sure who you Gents (@cuckoldroy, @Bostoncouplexxx) are referring to but your put on notice to keep your discussions civil. We are on an 'Off-topic' thread, you may express your opinions but not denegrate other members. Also I get enough sex in my real life that it bores me to come on-line to discuss it so I balance it out with talking about the biggest liar there was in office since Nixon. Its how I prefer to spend my time (somedays) and if you don't like it and the *FACTS* I drop just ignore this thread.
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Another entry in the book/diary of Chump-pocalypse now and the last days we are living in...
We will come back to all the late breaking news that Mueller dropped taking the wind out of Chump's sail to meet his handler Pu tin.
Another entry in the book/diary of Chump-pocalypse now and the last days we are living in...
We will come back to all the late breaking news that Mueller dropped taking the wind out of Chump's sail to meet his handler Pu tin.
- Paul Manafort recently filed a motion asking the judge in one of the two criminal cases against him to push back his trial date, arguing that he does not have enough access to his lawyers and documents needed to prepare a defense.
- The special counsel Robert Mueller, who charged Manafort in both cases, threw cold water on Manafort's argument in a new court filing Wednesday.
- The document said Manafort enjoys "VIP" privileges at the prison he's incarcerated in, has had over 100 phone calls with his lawyers, and is able to write and receive emails, among other things.
ref: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/12/former-trump-campaign-boss-manafort-no-longer-vip-gets-new-jail.html
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- The Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday released a bipartisan report about the US intelligence community's January 2017 assessment of Russia's election meddling.
- The committee found that the assessment was a "sound intelligence product" and that the conclusions were "reached in a professional and transparent manner.
- The findings fly in the face of President Donald Trump's and his allies' attacks on the intelligence community's credibility and what they perceive as bias against them.
The Senate Intelligence Committee released a report on Tuesday largely underlining what the US intelligence community said in January 2017: Russia interfered in the 2016 US presidential election to help elect Donald Trump.
Tuesday's report flies in the face of a flurry of attacks from Trump and his allies, who frequently accuse US intelligence and law-enforcement agencies of bias and political corruption.
The committee, which is still in the process of conducting a full bipartisan review, said in its initial report on Tuesday that the intelligence community's assessment, or ICA, was a "sound intelligence product" whose conclusions were "reached in a professional and transparent manner."
The senators found that the Kremlin directed Russia's meddling, interfering specifically to hurt Hillary Clinton, the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee, and help Trump, the Republican nominee. The document did not draw any conclusions about whether Russia's campaign was successful.
In a press release Tuesday, the panel added that the ICA's conclusions were "well supported and the tradecraft was strong."
"The Committee has spent the last 16 months reviewing the sources, tradecraft, and analytic work underpinning the Intelligence Community Assessment and sees no reason to dispute the conclusions," Sen. Richard Burr, the Republican chairman of the committee, said in a statement.
Its vice chairman, Sen. Mark Warner, echoed his colleague.
"Our investigation thoroughly reviewed all aspects of the January 2017 ICA, which assessed that Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered an influence campaign to target our presidential election and to destabilize our democratic institutions," Warner said. "As numerous intelligence and national security officials in the Trump administration have since unanimously re-affirmed, the ICA findings were accurate and on point."
Senate Intelligence Committee reinforces the ICA's findings
Tuesday's report touched on several facets of Russia's election interference, including its social-media disinformation campaign, Russian President Vladimir Putin's intentions in ordering the influence campaign, government-linked hacking and cyberattacks, and Russia's use of its state media outlets to spread misinformation.
The ICA said that while Moscow had long sought to undermine the Western world order, its election meddling represented "a significant escalation in directness, level of activity, and scope of effort compared to previous operations."
Tuesday's report cited details that have come to light since the January 2017 report as further supporting the ICA's conclusions, including:
- Russia's extensive use of a notorious troll farm, the Internet Research Agency, to conduct a widespread social-media disinformation campaign.
- Russia's hack of the Democratic National Committee before the election.
- Russia's attempts to breach critical election infrastructure shortly before Election Day 2016.
As far as the ICA's conclusion that Putin wanted to help Trump and hurt Clinton, the Senate Intelligence Committee said the document "provided a range of all-source reporting to support these assessments."
The panel's conclusion on this finding is likely to infuriate Trump, who has repeatedly criticized the intelligence community's assessment that Russia sought to tilt the election in his favor.
Trump and his associates are the focus of an FBI investigation into whether his campaign colluded with Moscow to influence the election — something the president and his allies have vehemently denied.
So far, the Russia investigation, led by the special counsel Robert Mueller, has yielded nearly two dozen indictments and five guilty pleas, including from Michael Flynn, Trump's former national security adviser, and Rick Gates, his deputy campaign chairman. Paul Manafort, Trump's campaign chairman, has also been charged with over 20 counts; he has pleaded not guilty.
Clarifying some aspects of the ICA
The ICA originally stoked some controversy on the right when it said the CIA and the FBI had "high confidence" in its findings while the National Security Agency had "moderate confidence."
The Senate Intelligence Committee investigated the discrepancy, and it said in Tuesday's report that the disagreement was "reasonable, transparent, and openly debated," and that it was most likely the result of "analytic differences" among the agencies.
Trump and his allies have also floated the theory — without evidence — that the FBI and the intelligence community relied extensively on an unverified dossier compiled by Christopher Steele, a former British spy, to inform their conclusions and embark on a politically motivated "witch hunt."
But the committee said that based on its interviews with witnesses, "the dossier did not in any way inform the analysis in the ICA — including the key findings — because it was unverified information."
Tuesday's report faulted the ICA for not including an updated assessment on how Russia uses its state media outlets to push its agenda.
The panel also concluded that the ICA fell short in describing the full scope of Russia's interference in US politics and the US's response.
ref: http://www.businessinsider.com/sena...ee-report-russia-election-interference-2018-7
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- Three associates of President Donald Trump have indicated that Trump may have known about the June 2016 meeting at Trump Tower involving top campaign officials and two Russian lobbyists
- Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen, his personal defense attorney Rudy Giuliani, and his former campaign aide Sam Nunberg have all either declined to back up Trump's claim that he did not know about the meeting or explicitly suggested he knew about it in advance.
- The meeting, Trump's knowledge of it, and any efforts to conceal its purpose are areas of focus for the special counsel Robert Mueller.
On Monday, Michael Cohen became the third associate of President Donald Trump to hint that Trump may know more than he's letting on about a June 2016 meeting involving top campaign officials and two Russian lobbyists.
The meeting has drawn intense scrutiny since it emerged last year that Trump's eldest *******, Donald Trump Jr., enthusiastically agreed to it after the Russians offered compromising material on the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee, Hillary Clinton. Trump's campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, and his senior adviser and *******-in-law, Jared Kushner, also attended.
The meeting, held at Trump Tower, was pitched to Trump Jr. as "part of Russia and its government's support for Mr. Trump." Several participants have since said that nothing came of the meeting.
During an interview with ABC's George Stephanopoulos, Cohen criticized Trump Jr. and Kushner for attending the meeting, saying he believed it was a mistake and an "example of poor judgment."
Asked whether Trump knew of the meeting before it happened, Cohen said he could not comment "under advice of my counsel."
Cohen's comments come amid heightened speculation that he is gearing up to cooperate with prosecutors in a federal investigation focusing on several payments he made before the 2016 election to women who said they had affairs with Trump, as well as whether Cohen committed wire fraud, bank fraud, or campaign-finance violations.
Giuliani: 'I would be surprised if he could remember'
Rudy Giuliani, Robert Mueller, and Trump.
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In May, Trump's newest personal defense lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, refused to issue a blanket denial when asked about Trump's possible knowledge of the Trump Tower meeting.
Giuliani previously told Business Insider he "would be surprised" if Trump knew about the meeting at the time that it happened.
But the former New York City mayor also left open the possibility that Trump may have known but later forgot about the meeting.
"Honestly, I would be surprised if he could remember," Giuliani said. "I couldn't remember. I would say that. I couldn't remember if that happened back then."
Nunberg: 'I don't know why he went around trying to hide it'
In March, Sam Nunberg, a former Trump campaign aide, told MSNBC during a media blitz that Trump "may have done something during the election," adding that he didn't know for sure.
He later told CNN that Robert Mueller, the special counsel investigating Russia's election interference, "thinks Trump is the Manchurian candidate," a phrase referring to a politician who has been brainwashed to work on behalf of a foreign government.
When CNN's Jake Tapper asked Nunberg whether he believed Trump's statement that he did not know about the meeting in advance, Nunberg said he didn't.
"Jake, I've watched your news reports. You know it's not true," Nunberg said. "He talked about it a week before. And I don't know why he did this. All he had to say was: 'Yeah, we met with the Russians. The Russians offered us something, and we thought they had something, and that was it.' I don't know why he went around trying to hide it."
Nunberg testified before a grand jury in March as part of Mueller's investigation.
After reports of the Trump Tower meeting surfaced last July, Trump Jr. released evolving statements about its purpose, eventually acknowledging that one of the lobbyists, a Kremlin informant named Natalia Veselnitskaya, had promised dirt on Clinton but ended up not having any.
Meanwhile, Trump's lawyers said at first that the president had no knowledge of the meeting or its aftermath.
The Washington Post later reported that Trump dictated Trump Jr.'s initially misleading statement about the purpose of the meeting.
The meeting, Trump's knowledge of it, and any efforts to conceal its purpose are areas of focus in the obstruction and collusion threads of Mueller's investigation.
ref: http://www.businessinsider.com/did-trump-know-about-trump-tower-russia-meeting-2018-7
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Collusion & Treason
Collusion & Treason
- An indictment from the special counsel Robert Mueller's office alleges Russian operatives tried to hack email accounts and domains affiliated with Hillary Clinton on the same day Donald Trump called on Russia to find her "missing" emails.
- "Russia, if you're listening, I hope you're able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing," Trump said on July 27, 2016, the same day the indictment says hackers targeted a domain used by Clinton's personal office.
- The special counsel's office on Friday brought criminal charges against 12 Russian intelligence officers suspected of hacking and meddling in the 2016 US election.
ref: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-mueller-investigation-keeps-growing-fast/
