The missing links in the Russia collusion hoax no one talks about

With each day it becomes more and more clear that Donald Trump has been framed vis-a-vis the Russian collusion accusation. How exactly it found life is beginning to clear, but there are a couple of things that need concretion. Let’s review how this all began.

Goldstone

June 2016: Veselnitskaya granted immigration parole by obama State Dept, just in time to meet with Trump Jr.

June 3, 2016: Trump Jr. receives an email from Rob Goldstone:

Emin [Agalarov, a Russian pop star represented by Goldstone] just called and asked me to contact you with something very interesting.

The Crown prosecutor of Russia met with his father Aras [a Moscow-based developer who tried to partner with Trump in a hotel project] this morning and in their meeting offered to provide the Trump campaign with some official documents and information that would incriminate Hillary [Clinton] and her dealings with Russia and would be very useful to your father.

This is obviously very high level and sensitive information but is part of Russia and its government’s support for Mr Trump – helped along by Aras and Emin.

What do you think is the best way to handle this information and would you be able to speak to Emin about it directly?

I can also send this info to your father via Rhona [presumably Rhona Graff, Trump’s longtime executive assistant], but it is ultra sensitive so wanted to send to you first.

Jr. replies

Thanks Rob I appreciate that. I am on the road at the moment but perhaps I just speak to Emin first. Seems we have some time and if it’s what you say I love it especially later in the summer. Could we do a call first thing next week when I am back?

June 7, 2016: Goldstone to Jr.

Hope all is well. Emin asked that I schedule a meeting with you and the Russian government attorney who is flying over from Moscow for this Thursday. I believe you are aware of the meeting – and so wondered if 3pm or later on Thursday works for you? I assume it would be at your office.

Goldstone to Jr.:

Good morning. Would it be possible to move tomorrow meeting to 4pm as the Russian attorney is in court until 3 I was just informed.

Jr::

Yes Rob I could do that unless they wanted to do 3 today instead … just let me know and I’ll lock it in either way.

Goldstone:

They can’t do today as she hasn’t landed from Moscow. 4pm is great tomorrow.

Just in time for the meeting

June 9, 2016: The meeting takes place. In attendance: Trump Jr., Kushner, Manafort, Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya, Akhmetshin and publicist Rob Goldstone, who helped set up the meeting. A source familiar with the circumstances told CNN there were at least two other people in the room as well, a translator and a representative of the Russian family who had asked Goldstone to set up the meeting. The source did not provide the names.

Veselnitskaya was reported to bring some dirt- but not on Hillary. The dirt she brought was dug up by Glenn Simpson and Fusion GPS intended to discredit Bill Browder, the driving force behind the Magnitsky Act.

Months before she met in June 2016 with Trump Jr., Veselnitskaya said she turned the information she got from Simpson over to Russian Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika, who she said sought to verify it through his own investigation. 

In May 2016, the Russian prosecutor general issued a statement seeking U.S. help in investigating what he described as a tax evasion scheme involving the Ziff brothers, American investors, and British investor Bill Browder.

Veselnitskaya has claimed that she knew nothing about any information on Hillary but only wanted to lobby for the repeal of the Magnitsky Act. The meeting lasted less than a half hour.

So the first question is- why did Goldstone tell Trump Jr. that this meeting was about information concerning Hillary?

It might seem possible that there was some kind of mix-up on Goldstone’s part as he suggested there was information on Hillary to be had but Goldstone was very specific and Browder was no candidate. More likely is that Goldstone used dirt on Hillary as the bait to lure Trump Jr. into a meeting about repealing the Magnitsky Act.  Then again, why would he do that to a “friend”?

So far, no one has questioned Goldstone about that. In fact, Mueller hasn’t even contacted Veselnitskaya.

Veselnitskaya met with Donald Trump Jr., the president’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and then-campaign chairman Paul Manafort in June 2016 after Trump Jr. was told she could provide potentially incriminating information about Hillary Clinton.

Mueller, a former FBI director, is leading a federal probe of possible collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign. He has filed charges against multiple former Trump campaign aides.

The apparent lack of interest shown by Mueller’s team in her testimony could be a sign the special counsel is not eager to find out what happened, Veselnitskaya told the AP in the interview in downtown Moscow.

“If Mueller’s team is not working to discover the truth, they will never question me,” she said.

Papdopoulos

After about a year of claiming it was the dossier and Carter Page, democrats now claim that it was George Papdopoulos who was the lynchpin for the Russia investigation.

The FBI’s counterintelligence investigation into whether Trump campaign officials had improper contacts with Russia was triggered by information the bureau obtained about George Papadopoulos, a former adviser to the campaign, according to the memo released Friday by House Intelligence Committee Republicans.

Allies of President Trump have claimed the Russia probe began with the so-called Steele dossier that was paid for in part by Hillary Clinton and the Democratic National Committee (DNC). That would mean the Russia investigation itself — and by extension, special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe — was launched from political opposition research.

But the memo states that FBI agent Pete Strzok opened the investigation in July 2016 based on “information” about Papadapoulos, rather than the dossier.

Papadopoulos is said to have blurted out interesting assertions during a night of libation:

A New York Times investigation revealed that the FBI probe into whether President Donald Trump’s campaign colluded with Russia to meddle in the 2016 election started at a London wine bar in May 2016.

George Papadopoulos, a foreign-policy adviser on the Trump’s campaign, told an Australian diplomat that Russia had “dirt” on Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton during a night of “heavy drinking” in May 2016, according to the Times.

Then we learned that the Australian diplomat, Alexander Downer, has significant ties to the Clinton’s:

The Australian diplomat whose tip in 2016 prompted the Russia-Trump investigation previously arranged one of the largest foreign donations to Bill and Hillary Clinton’s charitable efforts, documents show.

Former Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer’s role in securing $25 million in aid from his country to help the Clinton Foundation fight AIDS is chronicled in decade-old government memos archived on the Australian foreign ministry’s website.

Downer and former President Clinton jointly signed a Memorandum of Understanding in February 2006 that spread out the grant money over four years for a project to provide screening and drug treatment to AIDS patients in Asia.

Papadopoulos’ source of this information was one Josef Mifsud, who has since conveniently vanished from the face of the Earth after denying he told Papadopoulos anything of the sort.

Joseph Mifsud, the Maltese academic suspected of being a link between the Trump campaign and Russian officials, was once a regular on the foreign policy circuit, attending conferences the world over.

Now, after being identified as a key figure in the US special counsel investigation into Russian influence over the 2016 US presidential election, Mifsud has gone to ground.
Last Thursday he disappeared from the private university in Rome where he teaches. Repeated attempts to reach him since have been unsuccessful, though he appears to have read some messages from CNN.

The second question: Really- what are the odds that a Clinton ally would, on the same night and in the same wine room, just happen to sidle up to a Trump adviser who was fed information the month before by a “professor”, ply him with alcohol and get him to blather something about Russia having dirt on Hillary?

Of all the wine joints in all the towns in all the world, Downer happens to walk into George’s?

It is deliciously curious that there were two sources who approached Trump campaign staff claiming to have dirt on Hillary Clinton at about the same time- Papadopoulos was informed of this in April, Trump Jr in June. Both Mifsud and Veselnitskaya are said to have connections to high ranking Russians government officials.

The Russians never did have any dirt on Hillary. It never showed up, despite how much Putin hated Hillary. Thus it was all contrived, but by whom? Now when you add John Brennan’s secret trip to Moscow in March of 2016 and know how much Brennan hates Trump, well….maybe that’s one coincidence too many. Then add Devin Nunes’ revelation that no intelligence was used to open the Russian investigation….

It’s all tied together. It’s all one story.

DrJohn

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