Infamous meeting did not focus on Clinton dirt but on Magnitsky Act, newly released FBI memos show.
Just The News: In Robert Mueller’s final report on the Russia investigation, a little-known translator named Anatoli Samochornov played a bit role, a witness sparsely quoted about the infamous Trump Tower meeting he attended in summer 2016 between Donald Trump Jr. and a mysterious Russian lawyer.
The most scintillating information Mueller’s team ascribed to Samochornov in the report was a tidbit suggesting a hint of impropriety: The translator admitted he was offered $90,000 by the Russians to pay his legal bills, if he supported the story of Moscow attorney Natalia Veselnitskya. He declined.
But recently released FBI memos show that Samochornov, a translator trusted by the State Department and other federal agencies, provided agents far more information than was quoted by Mueller, nearly all of it exculpatory to the president’s campaign and his eldest son.Read more
Despite learning the translator’s information on July 12, 2017, just a few days after the media reported on the Trump Tower meeting, the FBI would eventually suggest Donald Trump Jr. was lying and that the event could be seminal to Russian election collusion.
Samochornov’s eyewitness account entirely debunks the media’s narrative, the FBI memos show.
“Samochornov was not particularly fond of Donald Trump Jr., but stated Donald Trump Jr.’s account with Veselnitskya as portrayed in recent media report, was accurate,” according to the FBI 302 report on its interview of the translator. “Samachornov concurred with Donald Trump Jr.’s accounts of the meeting. He added ‘they’ were telling the truth.” more
“Samochornov, a translator trusted by the State Department”. What, don’t we have our own translators??? Whats the FBI doing with all the money they get??? BS
Every president promises to reduce the debt and reign in gov’t. Everyone expands gov’t and massively increases the debt. Trump has capitulated on two budgets and now the massive virus spending based on false information and the power mad Dr Fauci.
Wake me somebody goes to Federal Prison.
If POTUS Trump doesn’t blow up the DoJ and start completely over, from top to bottom, we can NEVER trust the FBI/CIA or any of the other 17 (17!) U.S. security bureaucracies again for anything. Revoke ALL security clearances from ALL former staff (why do they continue to have them, anyway?), and start all over again. Too bad if you’re caught up in the net and are innocently doing your job. You had a chance to blow the whistle and you didn’t. You saw things but you kept loyalty to the wrong-doers or were indifferent to their harms to our country. Too bad for you.
Next: Go back over ALL the cases that never added up. We all know which ones, they’ve been the subject of thousands of hours of congressional hearings and millions of dollars of tax-paid staff time and resources. Make them right, even if there are statutes of limitation on them.
Until then, good luck getting the American people to believe a damn thing that comes out of the DoJ.
And now no one trusts the gov’t to tell them the truth about Covid19.
Give Muller, mule, miller, whatever his name is Don Jr.s Legal bill.
Has been asshole should have retired and got outta Dodge before the Sherrif came to town!
@AA
I might have had a supposed clearance at some time that required that my supposed clearance be revoked when I no longer worked for the supposed government and the NEEDED supposed clearance for my supposed government job no longer existed.
Oh…..and the Hitlery thing….. would have meant Levenworth…..if any of my peers or myself had done it with our supposedly classified information.
I think: Brennan, Clapper, Comey, L.Lerner, Mueler…. are all bad! Which is why I never voted for the degenerate GWB!
Nothing the last 20 years has mad me doubt my vote!
Bush is a corrupt liberal!
His men/girls were all corrupt!
@AA
If / when Trump is re-elected this is definitely on the table. The dems are attached at the hip to the alphabet agencies and are are in full-blown panic mode. They both know where each other’s skeletons are buried.
I saw a crime drama recently that said there are 3 motives for murder: love, money, and revenge. The same goes for corruption and your love can be for power as well.
@TheRealTruthSerum April 3, 2020 at 8:47 pm
> If / when Trump is re-elected this is definitely on the table.
So is world peace, and cure for the common
coldflu. Always has been. Glad to see you’re still paying their way, as long as it will be.