In many of my posts I have cited articles of which I quoted in full or in part, the fact, being that I do not say much that isn’t verifiable. You just deign to consider it unreliable and/or not to your liking.
And the fact of the matter is that the media was promulgating a Russia/Trump collusion from the get go and you wouldn’t believe me.
Meaning no offense, but the topic is the Trump Jr emails. Plainly he was told that somebody (unidentified) was offering some kind of major information on Hillary Clinton that was “Russian government” information. It is not clear whether it was to be presented by any representative of the Russian government, an intentional “leak” by the Russkis, or just a plain old “leak”.
Trump Jr said he would “love it” (the information) but in April deferred receiving it until “later in the summer”. Shows clear interest, but nothing urgent. Ultimately this Velesniskaya and some others showed up, had nothing to offer, but wanted to talk about the Magnitsky Act. Manafort and Kushner wandered off, presumably uninterested in Velesnitskaya’s actual presentation. Trump Jr apparently heard her out but had no follow up on any of it.
In the meantime, Trump Jr at least intended to contact the Russian star “Emin”, who he knew from the entertainment industry, about all of it. “Emin” was supposedly behind the whole outreach to Trump Jr. We don’t know what their conversation was if, indeed, it occurred.
And that’s the tale. As far as anyone knows, there was never any kind of followup meeting or information presented. Velesnitskaya, as far as is presently known, was once a Russian government prosecutor, but now seems to be a lobbyist known by all kinds of people in DC. I don’t know how many former “Russian prosecutors” there are in Russia, but there would be tens of thousands of them in the U.S.; perhaps hundreds of thousands, very few of whom would presently be agents of the U.S. government. But whatever.
We do know her visa was initially rejected. It was later granted conditionally so she could participate as an attorney in a trial here. (There are no attorneys in the U.S., of course, and, of course Velesnitskaya purports not to be able to speak English, so that justification might reasonably be questioned) It appears she overstayed her visa, and essentially participated in lobbying while she was here, which is what she was attempting to do with Trump Jr. Nobody knows whether she is an “agent” of the Russian government any more than any other Russian who is over here, or whether she is just a middle aged Russian woman with a briefcase.
I see that Alan Dershowitz has joined the group of lawyers who say there’s nothing criminal in anything that happened. And he’s certainly no “Trump supporter”.
