I will start here today.
ii. Awareness of the Meeting Within the Campaign
On June 7, Goldstone emailed Trump Jr. and said that “Emin asked that I schedule a meeting with you and [t]he Russian government attorney who is flying over from Moscow.”694 Trump Jr. replied that Manafort (identified as the “campaign boss”), Jared Kushner, and Trump Jr. would likely attend.695
They should have refused. All the campaign members should have refused contact with the Russians. The Russians found the campaign attractive because it was easy to influence Trump. That should be obvious to everyone by now.
This aspect of POLICY is known to every American. This was not an innocent group of people without influential relationships with Russia. This isn't a civilian activity anymore. From beginning to the end of the campaign relationships with America's enemies should have been off-limits, but, it wasn't. The campaign has been completely inappropriate the entire time and still today Trump is inappropriate with Russia.
The Russians weren't about to leave evidence with the Trump campaign committee. They hadn't gotten anything from the relationship to date. But, this is supposed to be the talking points the Russian Lawyer/Lobbyist that wanted the Magnitsky Act withdrawn from USA law. (click here) So, much for the rule of law.
The note actually conveys the idea that Sergei Magnitsky didn't die in a Russian prison. He was arrested and taken to a Russian prison and died. But, Russians like to rewrite history. Sergei Magnitsky is known to Paul Manafort.
By Diana Swain
Paul Manafort, left, is accused of funnelling millions through Cyprus to the U.S., avoiding tax. The fraud uncovered in Russia by Sergei Magnitsky, right, took a similar route.
The indictment this week of former Donald Trump (click here) presidential campaign chairman Paul Manafort and his aide Richard Gates, runs to 31 pages.
Much of it reads like a bank ledger, listing dozens of wire transfers both men allegedly made over several years, moving millions of dollars into the United States without paying taxes. Most of those wire transfers came from roughly a dozen bank accounts in Cyprus.
For anyone familiar with the money-laundering tale uncovered by Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, that's an interesting coincidence. The financial fraud case he discovered in Moscow in 2007 also saw millions passed through bank accounts in Cyprus....
The international corruption linked to Trump's campaign by association is significant. He brought shady characters into the campaign. He had lawyers and yet these folks were the preferred personnel choices. Amazing. I suppose if a candidate has something on his staff members it makes them easier to deal with.
What is really interesting is that fact the Trumps were not new to these folks. There is a history dating to long before he was the Republican nominee.
Perhaps the most significant meeting (click here) between members of the Trump campaign and representatives of the Russian government occurred on June 9, 2016. That day, Donald Trump, Jr., Jared Kushner, and Paul Manafort met in Trump Tower with four individuals with ties to the Russian government.
The roots of the meeting go back all the way to July 2015, one month after Trump announced he was running for president. That month, Goldstone, who had first become acquainted with the Trumps through the Agalarovs and the Miss Universe Pageant in 2013, emailed Trump’s assistant asking whether Trump “would welcome a meeting with President Putin.” According to The Washington Post, “there is no indication that Trump or his assistant followed up on Goldstone’s offer,” and Goldstone’s attorney declined to comment....
I can't really hold the Republican National Committee responsible for the poor vetting of their candidate, it took an investigation by the FBI to stir up the dirt on Trump.
Goldstone was surprised to learn that Trump Jr., Manafort, and Kushner would attend.696 Kaveladze Grand Jury “puzzled” by the list of attendees and that he checked with one of Emin Agalarov’s assistants, Roman Beniaminov, who said that the purpose of the meeting was for Veselnitskaya to convey “negative information on Hillary Clinton.”697 Beniaminov, however, stated that he did not recall having known or said that.698
Early on June 8, 2016 Kushner emailed his assistant, asking her to discuss a 3:00 p.m. meeting the following day with Trump Jr.699 Later that day, Trump Jr. forwarded the entirety of his email correspondence regarding the meeting with Goldstone to Manafort and Kushner, under the subject line “FW: Russia - Clinton – private and confidential,” adding a note that the “[m]eeting got moved to 4 tomorrow at my offices.”700 Kushner then sent his assistant a second email, informing her that the “[m]eeting with don jr is 4pm now.”701 Manafort responded, “See you then. P.”702
The report is a very strong report when it comes to the truth. All the statements in the Special Counsel Report is backed up by ACTUAL CORRESPONDENCE, EMAILS AND PHONE CALLS. There is no falsehood here. The White House is sitting on evidence because he doesn't want the EVIDENCE on full display during his election.
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Footnote 694 DJTJR00467 (6/7/16 Email, Goldstone to Trump Jr.); @DonaldJTrumpJr 07/11/17 (11:00) Tweet; RG000068 (6/7/16 Email, Goldstone to Trump Jr.) Grand Jury '
Footnote 695 DJTJR00469 (6/7/16 Email, Trump Jr. to Goldstone); @DonaldJTrumpJr 07/11/17 (11:00)
Tweet; RG000071 (6/7/16 Email, Trump Jr. to Goldstone); OSC-KAV_00048 (6/7/16 Email, Goldstone to Kaveladze); Grand Note
Footnote 696 Goldstone 2/8/18 302, at 7; Grand Note
Footntoe 697 Grand Jury see Kaveladze 11/16/17 302 at 7; OSCKAV_00048 (6/7/16 Email, Goldstone to Kaveladze).
Footnote 698 698 Beniaminov 1/6/18 302, at 3.
Footnote 699 NOSC0000007-08 (6/8/18 Email, Kushner to Vargas).
Footnote 700 NOSC00000039-42 (6/8/16 Email, Trump Jr. to Kushner & Manafort); DJTJR00485 (6/8/16 Email, Trump Jr. to Kushner & Manafort).
701 NOSC0000004 (6/8/16 Email, Kushner to Vargas).
702 6/8/16 Email, Manafort to Trump Jr
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