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ffr

(22,665 posts)
Sun Jun 17, 2018, 10:11 PM Jun 2018

Number of tRump cronies who secretly met with Russians just hit 11



Oops! Two other tRump associates, Roger Stone and Michael Caputo, forgot to mention that they were offered dirt on Hillary Clinton by a Russian national.

After denying to Congress that they’d ever met with Russians during the 2016 campaign, longtime tRump advisor Roger Stone and former tRump campaign aide Michael Caputo have admitted to the Washington Post that, oops, they actually did meet with a Russian national in May of 2016 — and that their “memories were refreshed” about this meeting because special counsel Robert Mueller has the text messages they sent each other about it.

With these new admissions from Stone and Caputo, the Post reports, there are now at least 11 tRump associates or campaign officials who have met with Russians. But a year and a half ago, a tRump spokeswoman claimed that the number was zero.

Stone told the Post that he met with a Russian who calls himself Henry Greenberg, and that Greenberg wanted $2 million in exchange for damaging information about Hillary Clinton.

“You don’t understand Donald tRump,” Stone recalls telling Greenberg as he rejected the offer. “He doesn’t pay for anything.”

This was two weeks before the infamous tRump Tower meeting — which makes it even more likely that Donald tRump, Jr. knew that he was violating campaign finance laws by seeking (very) valuable information from a foreign source.

Caputo set up the meeting after Greenberg told Caputo’s Russian-immigrant business partner that he had information that could help the tRump campaign. Caputo, who was a communications official for the tRump campaign at the time,
decided that Stone, who was still in tRump’s orbit but no longer with the campaign, was the right guy to “vet” this information. - Share Blue

Well, well, well. It's now 11 that we know of, when if you take conservative Donald tRump on his word, it's zero.

45, YOU ARE A LIAR AND A TRAITOR. Anything associated with tRump enterprises should be boycotted and left to go bankrupt and 45 should be locked up and put on trial for conspiring against the United States.
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Number of tRump cronies who secretly met with Russians just hit 11 (Original Post) ffr Jun 2018 OP
K&R Scurrilous Jun 2018 #1
K&R, but Hillary!1 UTUSN Jun 2018 #2
Eleven! leftieNanner Jun 2018 #3
Also notice how many "Brexit" leaders were meeting with Russians- dawg day Jun 2018 #4
The Brexit vote is just as tainted as OrangeTurd's election YessirAtsaFact Jun 2018 #6
No collusion ... none at all :rolleyes: uponit7771 Jun 2018 #5
So lets get this straight D_Master81 Jun 2018 #7
"But there's no collusion. No collusion. Witch hunt, yes, but no collusion." VOX Jun 2018 #8
Funny how all of these guys can never remember meeting Russians. UCmeNdc Jun 2018 #9
Not sure I get the connection of the paragraph saying jr Laura PourMeADrink Jun 2018 #10
"Russia? Where's that? Never heard of it! Putin? Who's that? Never heard of him! struggle4progress Jun 2018 #11

leftieNanner

(15,074 posts)
3. Eleven!
Sun Jun 17, 2018, 10:19 PM
Jun 2018

I don't want Trump impeached. I don't want him thrown out of office.

HOWEVER, I do want the courts to go after his business and destroy it. His kids too. I want them left destitute and their bullshit "brands" in ruins. I want them to have nothing. No homes, no money, no jobs.

They already have no honor or ethics.

I want them to beg for food stamps and publicly subsidized housing. I want them to spend the rest of their lives in misery, pain, and abject poverty.

And if not, then I want them all locked up in effing jail!

dawg day

(7,947 posts)
4. Also notice how many "Brexit" leaders were meeting with Russians-
Sun Jun 17, 2018, 10:26 PM
Jun 2018

And then lying about it. And passing documents to the Russians--

And most of the Brexit cheats were associates of Roger Stone and/or supported Trump (like Nigel Farage, who is all tied up with this).

There's an interesting link with this guy George Cottrall, who was arrested for money laundering-- arrested at Ohare Airport as he was leaving from the Republican Convention with Farage. (He was Farage's finance guy for the Brexit initiative.) They also met with Newt Gingrich and Roger Stone, btw.

The aide, George Cottrell, was busted at Chicago’s O’Hare airport on his way home to London on July 22, 2016. He would later plead guilty to participating in a scheme “to advertise money laundering services on a TOR network black-market website.”

The money laundering doesn't seem directly related to Trump, but Cottrall is identified as "an offshore investment expert who had boasted on the dark web about his ability to launder money illegally in and out of the United States." I have deep suspicions that at the bottom of Trump's trunk of corruption is a decade or more of laundering Russian oligarch money, which is exactly what this guy was doing.
It is almost beyond belief, really-- I can never get my mind around it. 60 million Americans voted for Trump.


https://www.thedailybeast.com/leading-brexit-campaigner-passed-documents-on-us-probe-into-george-cottrell-to-the-russians

D_Master81

(1,822 posts)
7. So lets get this straight
Sun Jun 17, 2018, 10:42 PM
Jun 2018

11 people w/ connections to Trump have now been found out to have met w/ Russians, multiple Trump associates have plead guilty to lying to the FBI during the investigation, Trump attacks the investigation more than he works to fix the problem & there was NO COLLUSION! Yeah....right.

VOX

(22,976 posts)
8. "But there's no collusion. No collusion. Witch hunt, yes, but no collusion."
Sun Jun 17, 2018, 10:50 PM
Jun 2018

“I don’t even know Putin, so how can there be collusion? I told Don, Jr. what to say about that one meeting, because there was no collusion. It was about adoptions, and that’s not collusion. HILLARY is the one who colluded, why isn’t she being investigated? It’s rigged. Totally rigged, even when it’s been proven time and again that there’s no collusion. Have I said that there was no collusion? Because there wasn’t any. Except by Hillary and the Democrats. Sick people. Obama tapped my phones, is that collusion? Look at you guys, you’d pay good money to hear me say there was collusion. How much would you pay? But even so, there wasn’t any collusion, as the congressional committee proved. No collusion, it’s a witch hunt. Total. Witch. Hunt. So unfair, when people should stand at attention in my presence, just like they do for the North Korean guy. Who, by the way, is a funny guy. He knows how to run a tight ship, and I can tell you just by looking at him, that there’s been no collusion in his cabinet. And the nuclear threat posed by North Korea is gone, it’s over with. I’m waiting for my Nobel Peace Prize now. Obama got one, and people are saying I’ve got a lock on it. Which PROVES there was no collusion. Would they give me the Nobel prize if there was any collusion? I’ve accomplished more in 500 days in office than ANY president ever did. But still you talk about collusion, and there was none. This is what they call the calm before the storm.”

UCmeNdc

(9,600 posts)
9. Funny how all of these guys can never remember meeting Russians.
Sun Jun 17, 2018, 10:59 PM
Jun 2018

Until, the proof of their meetings are discovered. Then it is always “oh, nothing happed there anyway.”

 

Laura PourMeADrink

(42,770 posts)
10. Not sure I get the connection of the paragraph saying jr
Sun Jun 17, 2018, 11:01 PM
Jun 2018

Was more likely to have known he was breaking campaign finance rules... knowing about potential info from Russians yes...but knowing the action to pursue said info was illegal?...no. I want concrete....

struggle4progress

(118,269 posts)
11. "Russia? Where's that? Never heard of it! Putin? Who's that? Never heard of him!
Sun Jun 17, 2018, 11:26 PM
Jun 2018

Oh, THAT Russia! Don't really know much about it! Never met anyone from there! Oh, THAT Putin! Don't really know much about him! Never met him! Maybe I saw some Russians once. Didn't talk to them ever, though. Not for very long, just Hi! and such. A bit about adoption, I think. Waved at Putin once from a distance. Never chatted. It was only over a very short lunch, I think. Ten or fifteen minutes of small talk ..."

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