Trump Team Met With Lawyer Linked to Kremlin During Campaign - Polidicks

[quote] Two weeks after Donald J. Trump clinched the Republican presidential nomination last year, his eldest son arranged a meeting at Trump Tower in Manhattan with a Russian lawyer who has connections to the Kremlin, according to confidential government records described to The New York Times. The previously undisclosed meeting was also attended by Mr. Trump’s campaign chairman at the time, Paul J. Manafort, as well as the president’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, according to interviews and the documents, which were outlined by people familiar with them. While President Trump has been dogged by revelations of undisclosed meetings between his associates and Russians, this episode at Trump Tower on June 9, 2016, is the first confirmed private meeting between a Russian national and members of Mr. Trump’s inner circle during the campaign. It is also the first time that his son Donald J. Trump Jr. is known to have been involved in such a meeting. Representatives of Donald J. Trump Jr. and Mr. Kushner confirmed the meeting after The Times approached them with information about it. In a statement, Donald Jr described the meeting as primarily about an adoption program. The statement did not address whether the presidential campaign was discussed. American intelligence agencies have concluded that Russian hackers and propagandists worked to tip the election toward Mr. Trump, and a special prosecutor and congressional committees are now investigating whether his campaign associates colluded with Russians. Mr. Trump has disputed that, but the investigation has cast a shadow over his administration for months. Mr. Trump has also equivocated on whether the Russians were solely responsible for the hacking. But in Germany on Friday, meeting President Vladimir V. Putin for the first time as president, Mr. Trump questioned him about the hacking. The Russian leader denied meddling in the election.[/quote] [URL="https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/07/08/us/politics/trump-russia-kushner-manafort.html"]The New York Times[/URL] [editline]8th July 2017[/editline] Also: [Quote] An infuriated Mr. Putin has called the law an “outrageous act,” and, in addition to banning American adoptions, compiled what became known as an “anti-Magnitsky” blacklist of United States citizens. Among those blacklisted was Preet Bharara, then the United States district attorney in Manhattan, who led high-profile convictions of Russian arms and drug dealers. Mr. Bharara was abruptly fired in March, after previously being asked to stay on by Mr. Trump. One of Ms. Veselnitskaya’s clients is Denis Katsyv, the Russian owner of a Cyprus-based investment company called Prevezon Holdings. . In a civil forfeiture case prosecuted by Mr. Bharara’s office, the Justice Department alleged that Prevezon had helped launder money tied to a $230 million corruption scheme exposed by Mr. Magnitsky by parking it in New York real estate and bank accounts. As a result, the government froze $14 million of its assets. Prevezon recently settled the case for $6 million without admitting wrongdoing. [/Quote]

Despite all the smoke in the room, I'm sure Republicans will continue to twiddle their thumbs and either do nothing or deflect this.

They are blaming the Dem opposition for this because "set-up"

Probably met to give them some cash and a good blowie for all the help they got in the election

wasn't trump reportedly talking about a joint cyber security team with russia? [editline]9th July 2017[/editline] [quote]Veselnitskaya has also sought the repeal of the Magnitsky Act.[/quote] not quite so innocent when a kremlin lawyer is lobbying the republican presidential candidate

For those unfamiliar or not reading the full article, the Magnitsky Act is named after a Russian Lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, who exposed ring of corruption within the Russian authorities and elites, who were committing tax fraud to make money. Russian Police instead declared he was committing tax fraud and he was arrested and held without charges for a year, which is the longest Russia can legally hold someone without a trial. During this time he was isolated and refused medical treatment, which many believe was an attempt to kill him naturally. When it was about time for him to be released, he suddenly died, there is evidence he was simply beat to death. In response to the Magnitsky Act which blacklisted certain Russian officials in the United States, Russia blacklisted officials it deemed responsible for Guantanamo Bay's torture, banned the adoption of Russian children by American parents (who were previously top customers), and posthumously declared Magnitsky guilty of tax evasion.