Seth Abramson認証済みアカウント

(1) Don Jr. was there. He first lied and said there was no meeting, then he said there was and lied about its content, then he "came clean."

(2) His "confession" was that an acquaintance he wouldn't name set up a meeting with a person whose name his acquaintance wouldn't give him.

(3) He now says that he was told this unknown person had anti-HRC intel. When she arrived, he says, she had nothing and changed the subject.

(4) Don Jr. admits this person was a Russian attorney and admits she did give him anti-HRC intel but he now claims it made no sense to him.

(5) Instead of ending the meeting then, Don Jr. let this Russian attorney go on for nearly 30 minutes talking about U.S.-Russian sanctions.

(6) Those sanctions were the result of The Magnitsky Act, a U.S. effort to punish Putin cronies who stole hundreds of millions from Russia.

(7) Putin's enraged by the Act; he wants Trump to end it. (That won't happen because the affected individuals are human rights abusers too.)

(8) Don Jr. admits another Trump son, Kushner, and Trump's campaign manager, Manafort, were also at the meeting with this Russian attorney.

(9) This is a good time to note that this attorney—Natalia Veselnitskaya—is an *agent of the Kremlin*. She represents government interests.

(10) Don Jr. now claims that he *refused* to tell his brother Jared *or* his dad's campaign manager what the Trump Tower meeting was about.

(11) Despite not knowing who they were meeting—allegedly—both Kushner and Manafort showed up to this meeting with an agent of the Kremlin.

(12) This is a good time to note that by this time in 2016 both Kushner and Manafort had had undisclosed conversations with Russian agents.

(13) Kushner had spoken with Sergey Kislyak by phone in April. Manafort had spoken in person with Kislyak at the Mayflower Hotel that month.

(14) Kushner would go on to have another call with Kislyak, a meeting with him and a meeting with Putin's banker. He disclosed none of them.

(15) Manafort at this point was just *weeks* away from lying on TV about whether he met with Russians at the RNC to change the GOP platform.

(16) Manafort would later be fired from the campaign for his dealings with Russian allies in Ukraine. He's now a target of the Russia probe.

(17) Soon after the June 9 meeting with a Russian agent at Trump Tower Manafort met twice with an ex-Russian solder. He did not disclose it.

(18) A week before the inauguration, Manafort was still advising Trump. He told him to use the anti-HRC intel Don Jr. says they got June 9.

(19) Despite this, Don Jr. says he never told Kushner and Manafort they would be meeting with a Russian and they never pressed him for info.

(20) Veselnitskaya says the meeting went 20-30 minutes and one of the men—Kushner or Manafort—left halfway through. She can't recall which.