https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-06/trump-jr-said-anti-russia-law-may-be-reviewed-moscow-lawyer-saysOld article, but I still scratch my head how people say no collusion.
Let’s review:
- DJT jr gets an email offering sort on Hillary coming straight from the Russian government, says he loves it.
- goes to meeting.
- info from above:
Looking ahead, if we come to power, we can return to this issue and think what to do about it,’’ Trump Jr. said of the 2012 law, Bloomberg cited Veselnitskaya as saying. “I understand our side may have messed up, but it’ll take a long time to get to the bottom of it.”
She also said that Trump Jr. had asked her for written proof of her claim that Ziff Brothers Investments had evaded U.S. taxes while donating heavily to Clinton and other Democratic candidates. As she didn’t have that, the meeting quickly ran into the sand, she said.
- trump successfully removes Russian sanction from party platform
- trump gets elected.
- trump starts obstructing Justice
- trump blocks Russian sanctions
Now, I don’t think Veselnitskaya is telling the 100% truth, neither is do JR, Trump, or anyone else about the situation.
But if you take her words at face value, Don Jr clearly tried to collude. The only way someone could call this “just chatting” is if you take the similarly dumb argument that Trump didn’t try to get Comey to drop the investigation into Flynn, because he asked him and didn’t order him to.
The only real question is what was Veselnitskaya lying about? Was she lying about what she offered Trump, or was she lying about what he said in response. I guess it depends if you don’t think Russia is Chaotic Evil or Lawful Evil.