That didn’t take long. The Associated Press is reporting that NBC’s unnamed lobbyist is Rinat Akhmetshin, a local pro-Russian lobbyist. He lobbies for the US to lift sanctions against Russia. On vacation in France, Akhmetshin admitted to AP that he was at the collusion meeting in Trump Tower, New York, although he denies any connections to Russian intelligence services. Donald, Junior, has already admitted that […]
Donald “Uday” Trump, Jr., has managed the almost unimaginable: he’s squeezed yet another lie into that one freakin’ story. He (and Jared Kushner and Paul Manafort) lied about not meeting with Russians. And they got caught. Then they lied about Natalia Veselnitskaya’s interests. And got caught. They lied about why they were there. And got caught. They lied about the meeting’s importance. (Technically, they haven’t […]
Here’s an odd thing. The FBI is headquartered in the J. Edgar Hoover Building in downtown DC. If you’re not in the area, you’ve seen images on TV for years. Iconic as it is, it’s old and broken down. The phase “falling apart” gets a lot of coverage. They’ve been looking to move to a new, modern building for a decade now. They’ve done the […]
Donald Trump, Jr. characterized the meeting with the Russian lawyer as a meeting about Russian adoptions. They only talked about Russian adoptions, which sounds benign, and nothing explicitly criminal. That’s a thin dodge. When the US implemented sanctions against Russia and the Putin oligarchs — because Russia invaded and annexed Crimea — Putin stopped all the US adoptions of Russian orphans in retaliation. This meeting […]
So we’re at an inflection point. Oddly, the question isn’t what happened up to now. We know Donald Trump, Jr. knowingly colluded with Russian sources to interfere in the 2016 election, because he told us so. He gave us the emails. There are questions about so many broken laws that it’s hard to pick which to follow first. The question is about what Republicans do […]
Things are moving along the way you’d expect. The White House is minimizing the Russian collusion news, saying…. Eh, who cares? They’re liars. Sarah Huckabee Sanders defended the… Such a bad liar, it’s painful to listen to her. Kellyanne Conway responded with…. No. Don’t even start. Trump tweeted…. Trump lies like most people breathe. Leading Republicans? Please. Where next? Al Jazeera? RT? Better than waiting […]
Update: my original story included Kellyanne Conway. She and Steven Bannen were mentioned by an intermediary offering campaign access, but neither was in this meeting. col·lu·sion noun secret agreement or cooperation especially for an illegal or deceitful purpose acting in collusion with the enemy Breaking News The New York Times just published Trump Jr. Was Told in Email of Russian Effort to Aid Campaign. It’s […]
Republicans… well, older Republicans, anyway… huh. Let me start again. There were people who became Republicans because they believed in the articulated Republican principles. A central Republican principle was that the best government was small. They felt that government, while necessary, wasn’t efficient. They used to talk about how competitive markets were always better and more efficient than centrally planned economies. Government, they argued, never […]
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