The Senate Intelligence Committee obtained phone records showing Donald Trump Jr. did not speak with his father from a blocked telephone number in the days before the infamous Trump Tower meeting in June 2016.
The finding, first reported by CNN, undercuts Democrats’ theory Trump Jr. might have told his father in those phone calls about the Trump Tower meeting, which was held June 9, 2016, with a group of Russians who had offered dirt on Hillary Clinton.
Democrats led by California Rep. Adam Schiff long theorized the phone calls were between father and son and that they could have discussed the meeting.
“We wanted to get the phone records to determine, was Donald Trump talking to his son about this meeting,” Schiff told CNN in November 2018.
“It’s an obvious investigative step, but one the Republicans were unwilling to take because they were afraid of where the evidence might lead.”
Phone records provided to the Senate Intelligence panel shows the calls were between Trump Jr. and two business associates, according to CNN.
The calls were made in the days before the Trump Tower meeting. Another call occurred several hours after the meeting. The identity of the business associates is not clear.
Investigators with both the special counsel’s office and in Congress have been interested in the Trump Tower meeting because Trump Jr. accepted it after being told a Russian attorney wanted to provide information about Hillary Clinton.
The lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya, showed up to the meeting with several Russian associates, including a Russian-American lobbyist named Rinat Akhmetshin.
Veselnitskaya and Akhmetshin also happened to be working during that same period with Fusion GPS, the opposition research firm that commissioned the Steele dossier. They have claimed the Trump Tower meeting had nothing to do with their work with Fusion GPS.
Jared Kushner and Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort also attended the meeting. But all parties involved have said the meeting was a waste of time. They’ve said Veselnitskaya merely used the meeting to discuss the Magnitsky Act, a U.S. sanctions law against Russia that is opposed by the Kremlin. Veselnitskaya provided a four-page memo that made only one small reference to Hillary Clinton.
Schiff for brains doesn’t allow facts to interfere will his narrative.
Lies and disinformation is the socialist democrat strategy, aided by the complicit MSM.
OED:
Schiff didn’t have a theory. He had an unfounded defamatory accusation.
I doubt Schiff will change his position in lieu of this information.
Just how many people work for Fusion GPS? Starting to wonder if I work for ’em and just ain’t figured it out yet.
I have been informed by wholly unreliable sources with absolutely no reason to know that Adam Schiff and several high ranking Democrats, including Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer, have been meeting with ISIS and Al Queda to promote terrorist attacks both domestic and international and flood the inboxes of unsuspecting men with various (and unnecessary) erectile dysfunction cures and penis enlargement devices. Of course, these baseless assertions are also completely bereft of any documentary support.
I am currently monitoring Buzzfeed, CNN and MSNBC to determine when their non-stop reporting of this scandal will begin. In the meantime, we must obtain all phone records, emails, text messages, school records and entries to Publisher’s Clearing House contests of Adam Schiff. We should probably also raid his house in the pre-dawn hours and frog march him off to jail just to be safe.
@Wyatt – Please do not overlook the need to inspect Schiff’s household trash for DO NOT REMOVE UNDER PENALTY OF LAW tags from pillows and bedding, and hazardous waste hearing aid batteries.
Going off topic.
What’s the new crop of liberals and their Crazy Eyes?
Shiff, OAC, Booker. They all have crazy eyes. Like they’re about to come undone.
That should be a red flag about their characters
Lazlo,
They’ve reproduced Jack Elam’s DNA and have lost control. Next fiendish experiment: AOC’s brain.
Hateful, bug-eyed, and stupid with a pencil neck, is no way to go through life if you’re a pencil neck geek.
The only thing these people make me want to do is give them all the massive wave-off. It’s just not worth the brain cells, anymore, to think about them.
Adam is definitely full of Schiff!
There is evidence that Donald Jr. spoke to his father last May1. That is May Day, a Comunist holiday. That PROVES Russian collusion.
If I could just get that little peckers neck in my hands I could probably complete that eye poppin thingy for him. Pro bono of course.