The Trump campaign’s story—or rather, Donald Trump Jr.’s story, since Jared Kushner and ex-campaign-chief Paul Manafort appear to be deep in hiding—is that Trump Jr., Kushner and Manafort met with a Kremlin-connected Russian lawyer to discuss information damaging to Hillary Clinton. We now know that the campaign knew both that the Russian government wanted to assist Trump’s efforts to win the election, and that the meeting with Veselnitskaya was intended to facilitate that.
The remaining campaign defense is a rather implausible one: Don Jr. claims the Russian lawyer had no useful information after all but instead began arguing for the reversal …read more
Source: Daily Kos
