During the August 17 meeting, Simes provided Kushner the Clinton-related information that he had promised.658 Simes told Kushner that (PP Personal Privacy) 659 Simes claimed that he had received this information from former CIA and Reagan White House official Fritz Ermarth,...
On the C-SPAN Networks: (click here)
Fritz Ermarth was an Analyst for Russia in the Central Intelligence Agency with four videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 1999 House Committee. Most appearances with Dimitri K. Simes (2).
NOTE TO FRITZ ERMARTH FROM ROBERT M. GATES (click here for CIA file)
Direct Link to Memo (click here) Below is the memo. Gates was never with the campaign. Manafort was. This is what is supposed to happen. When an American is contacted by anyone with worrisome backgrounds, identities or authorities; the agencies are supposed to be notified. The memo is dated November of 1985. It goes to prove how long these people have been involved with each other.
Just received alarm for severe weather. 3:29 pm. Should not be terribly long, 4:00pm - the air is so dry where I am that the rain actually dissipated into the hot air. The clouds weren't carrying rain or wind by the time it reaches this area. There is turbulence south of here where it hasn't been so dry. No lie, the grasses are brown. The rain would be welcome.
Well, with each passing cloud the air receives more and more water vapor It will rain eventually. I listen to the alarms. I never disregard them. The warnings started early this morning, so I knew it was coming.
...who claimed to have learned it from the U.S. intelligence sources, not from Russians.660
Simes perceived that Kushner did not find the information to be of interest or use to the Campaign because it was, in Simes's words, "old news."...
So, Kushner would have been interested if it were new news. The Trump Campaign wasn't looking for a policy, they were looking for DIRT. Poor Fritz actually thought he was going to be helpful.
...661 When interviewed by the Office, Kushner stated that he believed that there was little chance of something new being revealed about the Clintons given their long career as public figures, and that he never received from Simes information that could be "operationalized" for the Trump Campaign.662 Despite Kushner's reaction, Simes believed that he provided the same information at a small group meeting of foreign policy experts that CNI organized for Sessions.663
5. June 9, 2016 Meeting at Trump Tower
On June 9, 2016, senior representatives of the Trump Campaign met in Trump Tower with a Russian attorney expecting to receive derogatory information about Hillary Clinton from the Russian government. The meeting was proposed to Donald Trump Jr. in an email from Robert Goldstone,...
By Miles Parks
British publicist Rob Goldstone sent an email to Donald Trump Jr. that proclaimed "Russia and its government's support" for President Trump in the summer of 2016. Goldstone has become a surprisingly crucial part of the Russia imbroglio.
Rob Goldstone, (click here) the man who sent the email to Donald Trump Jr. that proclaimed "Russia and its government's support" for the Trump campaign, now says he had no idea what he was talking about.
In fact, not only did he not know the Russian government had launched a broader program of "active measures" against the 2016 election, Goldstone also says he made up some of the most important details in the message.
Yes, Goldstone says, his client, Russian pop singer Emin Agalarov, did ask him to reach out to Trump Jr. and communicate the offer of help that Emin's father, Aras, said he'd received from someone influential.
But the email's reference to "the crown prosecutor of Russia" — which led subsequent reports to identify the person as Yuri Chaika, Russia's chief federal prosecutor — was all Goldstone, he now says....
...at the request of his then-client Emin Agalarov, (click here) the son of Russian real-estate developer Aras Agalarov (click here). Goldstone relayed to Trump Jr. that the "Crown prosecutor of Russia ... offered to provide the Trump Campaign with some official documents and information that would incriminate Hillary and her dealings with Russia" as "part of Russia and its government's support for Mr. Trump." Trump Jr. immediately responded that "if it's what you say I love it," and arranged the meeting through a series of emails and telephone calls.'
Don, Jr. loved the idea of receiving incriminating information FROM THE RUSSIANS that would compromise the Clinton campaign. That is nothing? That is more than nothing, it shows a strong willingness to be corrupt to the core.
Donald J. Trump as a presidential candidate was probably the only person that could have raised the "idea" there was DIRT somewhere on Hillary Clinton. It would be a small miracle to find any negative information on Hillary Clinton. I think she has been treated very badly over these recent years. She was loved as Secretary of State and all of a sudden she is the evil that Trump has to vanquish. SHE WAS TREATED VERY BADLY.
The evil that Trump MANIFESTED during this time were involved with 30,000 emails from her personal server as a Former US Senator, Secretary of State and Former First Lady. Her lawyers provided the emails from the server to the US Government. I think it was the FBI. The 30,000 emails that were erased were personal emails that included her daughter's wedding. The number 30,000 doesn't surprise me, not for Hillary Clinton.
Trump latched onto the idea there were 30,000 emails erased that would never be found and in those 30,000 emails contained incriminating information. He hoped to find illegal activity because of the Clinton Foundation. There were people running the organization. The Clinton's made money by providing their experience and expertise through speeches they make to organizations requesting it.
Donald J. Trump is a master of "the lie" and "deception." If there was any entity that could MANUFACTURE adverse information on Hillary Clinton it was Russia. So, with Trump, Sr. running his mouth about Hillary Clinton's 30,000 emails, of course, Don, Jr. would hope the Russians had either actual adverse information or had manufactured it.
Even after being elected to the presidency, Trump continued to TREAT HILLARY CLINTON VERY, VERY BADLY. EVEN TODAY, he is finding political revenue in TREATING HILLARY CLINTON VERY, VERY BADLY.
So, when Trump, Sr. called on Russia to find the 30,000 missing emails, they went to work. No different than the meeting at Trump Tower. The campaign hoped that Russia would come up with something and soon.
It shows the mindset of the campaign. While they didn't exactly break the law all this time, they sure as heck gave plenty of signals the Russians should proceed in helping Trump become President.
I asked myself, "Would Hillary Clinton take a meeting with the Russians to find DIRT on Donald J. Trump?" The answer was obvious and it was a complete and absolute no. Besides that with all of Trump's dirty dealings with women and in his business and bankruptcies, she wouldn't have to risk getting information from the Russians even if someone in the campaign was. Trump had plenty of dirt right there in the open.
...Trump Jr. invited campaign chairman Paul Manafort and senior advisor Jared Kushner to attend the meeting, and both attended. Members of the Campaign discussed the meeting before it occurred, and Michael Cohen recalled that Trump Jr. may have told candidate Trump about an upcoming meeting to receive adverse information about Clinton, without linking the meeting to Russia. According to written answers submitted by President Trump, he has no recollection of learning of the meeting at the time, and the Office found no documentary evidence showing that he was made aware of the meeting--or its Russian connection-before it occurred. The Russian attorney who spoke at the meeting, Natalia Veselnitskaya,...
She also spent time in the US Capital at hearings about Russia and she lobbied against the Magnitsky Act.
July 10, 2017
By Miles Parks
Donald Trump Jr. (click here) insisted on Monday that his meeting with a Russian lawyer in the middle of the campaign last year was benign, but the lawyer has a number of ties to Russian government officials.
Natalia Veselnitskaya met with Trump Jr., as well as Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner and then-campaign chairman Paul Manafort in June 2016, according to a statement Trump Jr. provided NPR. The New York Times reported late Monday that Trump Jr. was informed in an email that material damaging to Hillary Clinton promised in the meeting was part of a Russian government effort to help his father's campaign.
Veselnitskaya has a history of advocating for the Russian government. Her clients include "state-owned businesses and a senior government official's son," reports the New York Times.
She also was married to a former deputy transportation minister in the Moscow region....
...had previously worked for the Russian government and maintained a relationship with that government throughout this period of time. What Russian doesn't maintain a relationship with Russia? She claimed that funds derived from illegal activities in Russia were provided to Hillary Clinton and other Democrats. Trump Jr. requested evidence to support those claims, but Veselnitskaya did not provide such information.
To me that is a conspiracy. Because Ms. Veselnitskaya never provided evidence there was no conspiracy. I am sure they tried to manufacture information against Hillary, but, knew it was fake and would not stand up to scrutiny.
She and her associates then turned to a critique of the origins of the Magnitsky Act, a 2012 statute that imposed financial and travel sanctions on Russian officials and that resulted in a retaliatory ban on adoptions of Russian children....
The Dima Yakovlev Law (click here)
...Trump Jr. suggested that the issue could be revisited when and if candidate Trump was elected. After the election, Veselnitskaya made additional efforts to follow up on the meeting, but the Trump Transition Team did not engage.
a. Setting Up the June 9 Meeting
i. Outreach to Donald Trump Jr.
Aras Agalarov is a Russian real-estate developer with ties to Putin and other members of the Russian government, including Russia's Prosecutor General, Yuri Chaika.664
By Natasha Bertrand and Sonam Sheth
Russia's top prosecutor (click here) and " master of kompromat" has been working since at least last year to overturn legislation passed by President Barack Obama in 2012 that levied punishing sanctions and travel restrictions on high-level Kremlin officials suspected of human rights abuses and corruption.
Yuri Chaika, who served as Russia's justice minister during Putin's first term and was appointed prosecutor general in 2006, is far from a household name in the United States.
But his contact with the Russophile congressman Dana Rohrabacher and his relationship with a Russian lawyer named Natalia Veselnitskaya has raised questions about what role, if any, Chaika played in Russia's efforts last year to help elect President Donald Trump....
...Magnitsky soon discovered that Hermitage was only a small pawn in a vast, $230 million tax fraud scheme that implicated high-level Kremlin officials and allies of President Vladimir Putin. The scandal, exposed in 2008, quickly snowballed into one of the biggest corruption scandals of Putin's tenure, and Moscow has been working to discredit Browder ever since....
...There is no such thing as a "crown prosecutor" in Russia. But "the analogue would be the top federal prosecutor of Russia, and that is Yury Chaika," The Atlantic's Julia Ioffe explained recently. Chaika's position in Russia now is comparable to that of the US Attorney General, she noted, and "Chaika has been extremely loyal to Putin."...
...Aras Agalarov is the president of the Crocus Group, a Russian enterprise that holds substantial Russian government construction contracts and that- as discussed above, Volume I, Section IV.A.I, supra worked with Trump in connection with the 2013 Miss Universe pageant in Moscow and a potential Trump Moscow real-estate project.665 The relationship continued over time, as the parties pursued the Trump Moscow project in 2013-2014 and exchanged gifts and letters in 2016. 666 For example, in April 2016, Trump responded to a letter from Aras Agalarov with a handwritten note.667 Aras Agalarov expressed interest in Trump's campaign, passed on "congratulations" for winning in the primary and according to one email drafted by Goldstone-an "offer" of his "support and that of many of his important Russian friends and colleagues[,] especially with reference to U.S./Russian relations."668
I am taking a break from this.
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Footnote 658 Simes 3/8/18 302, at 29-30; Simes 3/27/18 302, at 6; Kushner 4/11/18 302, at 12.
Footnote 659 Simes 3/8/18 302, at 30; Simes 3/27 /l 8 302, at 6.
Footnote 660 Simes 3/8/18 302, at 30.
Footnote 661 Simes 3/8/18 302, at 30; Simes 3/27/18 302, at 6.
Footnote 662 Kushner 4/11/18 302, at 12.
Footnote 663 Simes 3/8/18 302, at 30.
Footnote 664 Grand Jury Goldstone 2/8/18 302, at 4.
Footnote 665 Grand Jury Kaveladze 11/16/17 302, at 3; Shugart 9/25/17 302; at 2-3 Grand Jury
Footnote 666 Grand Jury Goldstone 2/8/18 302, at 10; Grand Jury Kaveladze 11/16/17 302, at 5-6; 4/25/16 Email, Graff to Goldstone.
Footnote 667 RG000033-34 (4/25/16 Email, Graff to Goldstone (attachment)).
Footnote 668 DJTJR (2/29/16 email Goldstone to Trump, Jr. et.al.) Grand Jury
