He sought intel from the Russian equivalent of our Attorney General, who was appointed by Putin himself.
Nothing wrong with digging up dirt on your opponent, unless that dirt comes from a foreign government inimical to our interests. I think that there's treason, though I wouldn't go too far out on a limb over it.
And another big fat "no".
Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya reportedly lured Donald Trump Jr. and other members of his father’s presidential campaign team to a meeting at Trump Tower last June with the promise of providing compromising information on Hillary Clinton.
Veselnitskaya has denied any affiliation with the Russian government.
A spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin told reporters Monday that the lawyer’s name wasn’t even known in the Kremlin. So who is this latest player now at the center of the ever-changing accounts of ties between the Trump campaign and Russia?
According to an affidavit she submitted to U.S. District court in Manhattan last year on an unrelated matter, Veselnitskaya has been practicing law in Russia since she graduated from the Moscow State Legal Academy with a degree in jurisprudence in 1998.
For three years following graduation, Veselnitskaya said, she worked in the Moscow Prosecutor’s Office, “overseeing the legality of statutes that were adopted by legislators of Moscow Oblast,” before
forming her own private law offices in 2003.Veselnitskaya was allegedly involved in orchestrating U.S. screenings of an anti-Magnitsky film in June 2016, the same month she reportedly sought a meeting with then-presidential candidate Donald Trump’s oldest son.
Though Putin has been a vocal opponent of the Magnitsky Act since it was first considered in Congress, the
Kremlin has denied any connection to Veselnitskaya, insisting that it was not even aware of her name.Lets review:
1. The Kremlin(where Putin works) has no knowledge of her.
2. Natalia has directly and repeatedly stated she doesn't work for the Russian govt.
3. Trump Jr stated she did not represent the Russian govt.
4. She was seeking influence from Trump Jr about the Magnitsky act, and possible overturning it because it interfered in a multi-million dollar judgment against one of her principal clients(who lost, and paid up).
5. She used a third party with connections to Trump Jr to bait him into a meeting by mentioning some kind of vague negative info about Clinton.
6. Trump Jr, in doing his oppo gathering about a rival political party, and in the interest of seeing that NO foreign influence was at work in the DNC accepted the meeting.
7. She delivered the proverbial 'nothing burger'.
8. They talked about Magnitsky act, and that adoptions from Russia might be a bargaining chip if there was movement.
9. Trump Jr told her to go pound govt sand.
10. End of another ludicrous effort to link the prez with some kind of Russian influence.
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