{"id":28538,"date":"2017-07-10T13:33:18","date_gmt":"2017-07-10T20:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=28538"},"modified":"2017-07-10T13:33:18","modified_gmt":"2017-07-10T20:33:18","slug":"trump-jr-holds-the-smoking-gun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/07\/10\/trump-jr-holds-the-smoking-gun\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Jr. Holds the Smoking Gun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">With every passing day, more evidence piles up that the Resident of the United States is a traitor, having colluded with Russia in an assault against our nation&#8217;s electoral integrity. In the most definitive evidence so far, Donald Trump, Jr. now holds the smoking gun.<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0710Gun\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-right: auto\" border=\"0\" alt=\"0710Gun\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/0710Gun.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"513\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump Jr. acknowledged Sunday that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/presidents-son-met-with-russian-lawyer-during-presidential-campaign-after-being-promised-information-helpful-to-fathers-effort\/2017\/07\/09\/90c0e3e8-64e9-11e7-8eb5-cbccc2e7bfbf_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_trumprussia-7pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&amp;utm_term=.eeee2cf8e11c\" target=\"_blank\">he met with a Russian lawyer who had promised damaging information on Hillary Clinton<\/a> in June 2016.<\/p>\n<p>The news, which was first reported <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/07\/09\/us\/politics\/trump-russia-kushner-manafort.html?hp&amp;action=click&amp;pgtype=Homepage&amp;clickSource=story-heading&amp;module=a-lede-package-region&amp;region=top-news&amp;WT.nav=top-news&amp;_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">by the New York Times<\/a>, represents the most direct suggestion to date of possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, and it is the first indication that someone from President Trump&#8217;s inner circle met with Russians during the campaign. Trump Jr. also brought then-campaign chairman Paul Manafort and Trump&#8217;s son-in-law and now-top White House adviser Jared Kushner to the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>But the information isn&#8217;t just troubling because it suggests the Trump campaign sought out the help of Russians to win the presidency. It also contradicts a number of claims made by the White House, the campaign and Trump Jr. himself \u2014 claims made as recently as this weekend. For an administration and campaign that have repeatedly denied contact with Russians and had their denials blow up in their faces, it&#8217;s yet another dubious chapter.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s recap all the times they suggested this kind of thing never happened&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From &lt;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/the-fix\/wp\/2017\/07\/10\/donald-trump-jr-just-contradicted-a-whole-bunch-of-white-house-denials-of-russian-contacts\/\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Post<\/a>&gt;<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Click through for a long list of denials and lies from the inner circle of the Trump Reich.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/msnbc-news\/watch\/report-trump-jr-met-with-russian-lawyer-during-campaign-989418563676\" target=\"_blank\">MSNBC&#8217;s<\/a> Thomas Roberts covered the story<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/player.theplatform.com\/p\/7wvmTC\/MSNBCEmbeddedOffSite?guid=n_msnbc_nyt_trumpjr_170710\" width=\"635\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Now the latest Republican lie to deflect guilt is the claim that the Russian&#8217;s pulled a bait and switch.&#160; They say that the Russian lawyer had no information, so there could have been no collusion.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/2017\/07\/keith-olbermann-digs-up-old-trump-tweet-that-may-confirm-he-knew-don-jr-met-with-russian-lawyer\/\" target=\"_blank\">Raw Story<\/a>, Keith Olbermann found the very first tweet (6\/9\/2016) from the Twit that tweets after Manafart, Kushner, and Trump, Jr. met with Veselnitskaya.&#160; Trump tweeted to Hillary, &quot;where are your 33,000 emails that you deleted.&quot;&#160; Keith has not posted a Resistance video recently, but I can&#8217;t wait to see this one.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">In short, Trump began using the information obtained from Russia immediately, making it clear that he was a willing participant.&#160; That smoking gun is still loaded.<\/font><\/p>\n<h1 align=\"center\"><font style=\"font-weight: bold\" color=\"#0000ff\">RESIST!!<\/font><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With every passing day, more evidence piles up that the Resident of the United States is a traitor, having colluded with Russia in an assault against our nation&#8217;s electoral integrity. In the most definitive evidence so far, Donald Trump, Jr. now holds the smoking gun. Donald Trump Jr. acknowledged Sunday that he met with a <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/07\/10\/trump-jr-holds-the-smoking-gun\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}