What happened today besides him admitting he paid Cohen for the Stormy NDA?
The transcripts from DOJ investigation and the Senate panel outright admitting that Russia favored Trump and tried to help him.
Seriously, the amount of bombshells in those transcripts is amazing. We’ve just become numb. One year ago about half of those stories would have been oppo-droppo mega tweet storms.
Today only:
- at least some republicans voted to release intel and judiciary reports saying Russia helped trump.
- get to see don jr basically caught out lying in the transcripts. Apparently opened the June 9th meeting with “I understand you have some information for me”
- it’s revealed that Don Jr called Emin in Russia right after Veselnitskaya meeting, then afterwards gets a call from a blocked number, then calls Emin in Russia again. Also revealed that Trump himself usually calls from a blocked number. Shortly after that series of calls. Trump tweets about Hillary’s emails for the first time
- senate report confirms that kremlin used nra to set up back channel with trump campaign. Also says they have evidence suggesting that kremlin used nra to funnel money into trump campaign
- dem report contains email to Ike Kaveldaze (who was in trump tower meeting) that says “why did He (DT JR) release the email admitting to collusion?”
- revealed that a Cohen had been planning a trip to meet with senior government officials in Moscow as late as May 2016 for Trump tower Russia
- al ruhaini (Qatari sovereign wealth fund dude) admitted that Cohen asked him for a bribe
- it’s revealed that Cohen’s SARs May have been scrubbed from FINCEN databases.
- Ike kaveladze says Don Jr asked Veselnitskaya and Rinat Akhmetsin directly “do you have any dirt on Hillary?”
Things that make me change my mind today:
Donald trump Jr went into that meeting with the intent of colluding with the Russians. There really isn’t even the smokescreen of an innocent explanation anymore. We are now arguing about whether or not the collusion worked, not whether it occurred.
Republicans we’re willing to throw Trump under the bus on two separate occasions in one day, by confirming two things trump has denied. 1) Russians helped trump 2) they did it through the NRA. I’m not sure why there’s a shift, but that seems to be a shot across Trumps bow by the GOP to me. I guarantee you he will notice it.
The Cohen story keeps getting worse. I expect that it will continue to get even worse. It might actually be more damaging to Trump than the Russian investigation.