{"id":28545,"date":"2017-07-11T13:39:43","date_gmt":"2017-07-11T20:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=28545"},"modified":"2017-07-12T13:33:00","modified_gmt":"2017-07-12T20:33:00","slug":"the-smoking-gun-went-bang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/07\/11\/the-smoking-gun-went-bang\/","title":{"rendered":"The Smoking Gun Went BANG!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Covering the criminal cooperation between the Trump campaign and the Russian government to steal the presidency of the United States from the the American People and deliver it to US Billionaires and Vladimir Putin is a daunting task.\u00a0 My fingers were still tired from explaining the smoking gun yesterday, when it went BANG!\u00a0 Before Trump Jr., Kushner and Manafart met with a Russian lawyer, Trump Jr. had been informed that he would be given information collected by the Russian government to help his father win the election.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Before arranging a meeting with a Kremlin-connected Russian lawyer he believed would offer him compromising information about Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump Jr. was informed in an email that the material was part of a Russian government effort to aid his father\u2019s candidacy<\/strong>, according to three people with knowledge of the email.<\/p>\n

The email to the younger Mr. Trump was sent by Rob Goldstone, a publicist and former British tabloid reporter who helped broker the June 2016 meeting. In a statement on Sunday, Mr. Trump acknowledged<\/a> that he was interested in receiving damaging information about Mrs. Clinton, but gave no indication that he thought the lawyer might have been a Kremlin proxy.<\/p>\n

Mr. Goldstone\u2019s message, as described to The New York Times by the three people, indicates that the Russian government was the source<\/strong> of the potentially damaging information. It does not elaborate on the wider effort by Moscow to help the Trump campaign… [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

From <NY Times<\/a>><\/span><\/p>\n

Nobody does a better job of breaking down the details of a complex situation like this than Rachel Maddow<\/a>. It’s a twenty minute video, but she even explains the significance of the Fuhrer’s 6\/9 [typo corrected<\/em>] tweet about Clinton’s email better than Keith did.\u00a0 Invest the time.<\/span><\/p>\n