By Jonathan Lemire and Mary Clare Jalonick
Washington — Senate investigators (click here) have evidence revealing the identities behind mysterious phone calls that Donald Trump Jr. had with blocked numbers during the 2016 presidential campaign, just days before he met with a Russian lawyer promising dirt on Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton.
Democrats have speculated that Trump Jr. was talking to his father, who has denied knowing anything about the controversial Trump Tower meeting with Natalia Veselnitskaya. But according to phone records provided to Congress, Trump Jr. spoke to Howard Lorber, a New York real estate executive, and Brian France, the former chairman of NASCAR, two people familiar with the records told The Associated Press....
Why those people? Endorsements for his father? Donations for the campaign? It only proves further that Don, Jr. was in a pivotal role with the campaign and then he met with Russians.
It would be nice to think this is all very innocent and these phone calls may be, but, the Trumps have shut down their charity for real reasons of impropriety. No one can call them innocent.
