If they don't want to fall to be too hard someone better come clean
Trump’s Son Met With Russian Lawyer After Being Promised Damaging Information on Clinton
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I keep trying to tell you guys "white supremacy isn't going to turn on itself". They'll protect this guy all the way to the end
I said this exact same thing yesterday. Word for word For word.
Especially since half of the people in this country have been tricked into no longer believing in the truth, even if they see it. This fucking place has been gaslighted. Only in 'Murrica could this be pulled off again. It's like Germany never happened
Not when it come to Jews
He's a Trump's pet Jew so he's protected by the shroud of white supremacy
Trump - everybody @G20 SUMMIT WAS TALKING ABOUT HILLARY'S EMAIL
I see what you did there Maxine Waters
Trump ready to feed his son to the wolves,, the son in law will get the same treatment lmaoo
Trump is scum bag supreme you should read about what he did to his own brother smh
That was him and his dad. Drove dude to drink himself to death.
Why Trump's Dismissal of Preet Bharara Matters
The move revives questions about the independence of federal prosecutors from political interference.
Brendan McDermid / Reuters
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In late November 1968, less than a month after Richard Nixon won the presidency, U.S. Attorney Robert Morgenthau made a surprise announcement: He wasn’t leaving his post.
John F. Kennedy had chosen Morgenthau to be the chief federal prosecutor for the southern district of New York in 1961, and U.S. attorneys traditionally resigned when a new president was elected. But Morgenthau said he had no intention of leaving, telling reporters he still had “vendettas to settle” in his campaigns against political corruption and tax-evading Swiss banks.
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One year later, Morgenthau resigned after Attorney General John Mitchell told him, on behalf of the Nixon administration, to leave or be fired. He implicitly criticized the White House for abiding by the “customs and principles of the old politics,” and appealed to the principle that law enforcement should be above politics.
“I hope that my fight for independence will make it easier for my successor to withstand the harsh, narrow partisan views on law enforcement currently in favor at the Department of Justice in Washington,” he said as he departed.
Forty-eight years after Morgenthau’s ouster, one of his successors has just met a similar fate. President Trump fired Preet Bharara, who carved out a national reputation with high-profile battles against corrupt legislators in Albany and insider trading on Wall Street, on Saturday after Bharara refused to offer his resignation as part of a broader removal of 46 Obama-era U.S. attorneys.
“By the way, now I know what the Moreland Commission must have felt like,” Bharara tweeted on Sunday afternoon. It was a reference to the independent bodyset up to investigate New York Governor Andrew Cuomo in 2013 to investigate political corruption; he abruptly shut it down in early 2014 after passing modest ethics reforms.
Bharara then stepped in with an investigation of the circumstances in which the commission was disbanded. Over the next couple of years, Bharara’s office indicted the leader of the state’s assembly, of its senate, and of top aides to Cuomo—demonstrating, emphatically, that there actually was pervasive corruption in New York state government, but that the Moreland Commission had been disbanded too quickly to make it public. Now Bharara shares its fate—forced from office before he could bring inquiries he was reportedly pursuing to completion.
Trump had every right to demand the resignations. But the manner in which he removed half of the nation’s chief federal prosecutors still raised eyebrows. During the transition in January, Trump had asked the attorneys, as well as certain high-ranking Justice Department personnel, to temporarily stay on after his inauguration on January 20. The request was a largely practical one: Each of the 93 U.S. attorneys represents the United States in civil lawsuits and serves as the top prosecutor in federal criminal trials within their jurisdictions.
Those roles can be sensitive and complex in nature, so it’s not unreasonable to keep them in place until their successors can be named. Some U.S. attorneys soon stepped down nonetheless, leaving career civil-servant prosecutors in charge in the interim. But the Trump administration seems to have jumped the gun on replacing the rest: None of their designated successors have been named, and those ousted were reportedly caught off-guard by the requests to resign. CNN reported that one of the attorneys found out he was being ousted through social media; others didn’t receive a call from Dana Boente, the acting deputy attorney general, until after the Justice Department made the announcement.
Forcing out the U.S. attorneys en masse on a Friday night may have been sloppy, but it isn’t unprecedented. Bill Clinton, the first Democratic president in more than a decade at the time, sought a similar mass resignation from the Reagan and Bush-era U.S. attorneys in 1993. (Among those ousted at the time was Jeff Sessions, then serving as the U.S. attorney for the southern district of Alabama.) George W. Bush and Barack Obama also oversaw mass turnovers among the nation’s chief federal prosecutors, albeit in a less dramatic fashion.
Trump and his predecessors acted well within their powers. All U.S. attorneys serve four-year terms “at the pleasure of the president,” a legal term of art that distinguishes a relatively small group of federal political appointees who rotate in and out as presidents change from the far greater multitude of career civil servants. A series of anti-corruption reforms in the late 19th century ensured those federal workers are both nonpartisan and insulated by civil-service laws. But those protections don’t extend to political appointees.
Of the 46 resignations sought, Trump has only declined to accept two of them: Boente, the U.S. attorney for the eastern district of Virginia and acting deputy attorney general, and Rod Rosenstein, the U.S. attorney for Maryland. Boente is currently serving as the acting second-in-command at the Justice Department, while Rosenstein is awaiting Senate confirmation to take that role permanently. The position has been vacant since Trump dramatically fired Sally Yates, an Obama holdover who refused to defend the president’s controversial travel ban in court, on January 30.
Friday’s firings occurred amid growing friction between a nascent Trump administration that’s still struggling to assert control over the sprawling federal bureaucracy, and what the White House increasingly sees as a hostile cadre of Obama-era officials who are still in place until their replacements can be named. Hours before the ouster, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer criticized“people that burrowed into government during eight years of the last administration” for pursuing their own agendas.
The greatest surprise in the ousters wasn’t that they happened, but that Bharara was among them. He had reportedly been assured by both Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions in November that he could stay on as U.S. attorney in the new administration. Bharara, whose jurisdiction includes Trump Tower, was overseeing multiple high-profile cases at the time, including an investigation into New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s campaign-finance practices. Bharara was also probing Fox News’ response to a sexual-harassment scandal that led to the resignation of longtime CEO Roger Ailes.
Why Trump changed his mind is unclear. The Times reported that the president tried to call Bharara on Thursday only to be rebuffed, with Bharara citing Justice Department protocols barring contact between federal prosecutors and the White House. After the Justice Department asked for the 46 U.S. attorneys to resign on Friday, Bharara did not submit his resignation. Finally, on Saturday, Boente called Bharara and told him to leave.
“I did not resign,” he then wrote on Twitter. “Moments ago I was fired.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/03/trump-bharara/519318/
Also denied health care to his Brother's son who had a rare congenital disease..
Russian oligarch’s lawyer confirms his client had ‘phone relationship’ with Don Jr. prior to clandestine meeting
SARAH K. BURRIS
14 JUL 2017 AT 00:44 ET
Attorney Scott Balber (Photo: Screen capture)
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In a late-night interview with CNN’s Jim Sciutto and Pamela Brown, Scott Balber — the attorney for Russian oligarch Aras Agalarov and his son Emin — confirmed the Agalarovs spoke President Donald Trump’s son, Donald Trump Jr during the campaign.
“I wanted to bottom line ask did your client speak to Donald Trump Jr. before or after the meeting with the Russian lawyer?” Brown asked the attorney about Natalia Veselnitskaya who met with the Trump campaign in June 2016.
“At some point, before the meeting, yes, but likely months before,” he replied. “He has no recollection of any conversation by telephone or otherwise in this time frame with Donald Trump Jr. either. He doesn’t believe it happened.”
“So when you say months before, was this during the campaign he spoke to him?”
“No, he has no specific recollections of any conversation on this topic. He spoke to Donald Trump Jr. over the course of time during the couple of years before this time frame in which they had known each other but nothing about this issue.”
“So they did have a phone relationship?” Brown asked.
“Uh, they had spoken on the phone at points in time, that’s correct,” Balber said.
“And do you know how many times during the presidential campaign this happened?” Brown asked.
“I have no idea,” the attorney replied.
And what bout his father, Aras, because he did have a relationship with his father, Donald Trump. Did they speak during the campaign?” Brown asked.
“Again, nobody has any recollection of conversations between Aras Agalarov and Donald Trump Sr. during that time frame either,” Balber replied.
Sciutto cut in to ask about a “better sense” of the attorney publicist Rob Goldstone called a “Russian government lawyer.”
“Let me put this in context if I can,” Bilber began. “The story here — the theory is that Russian government was in possession of highly confidential super-secret devastating information about Hillary Clinton that would affect the outcome of the election and change the future of the free world and they debated how should we convey that to the Trump campaign? And someone said let’s get Rob Goldstone, a music publicist to convey the message? And let’s get as many people involved in the conversation and do it by email. It just makes no sense. And the answer to your question is –”
Sciutto cut in again: “To be fair Goldstone, yes, set up the meeting but the lawyer is a very well-connected lawyer with an effort, a history of challenging U.S. sanctions against Russians accused of human rights abuses, so these are big issues and she was at the center of fighting those issues. She didn’t just come out of nowhere.”
Balber conceded that she has been an opponent to many issues but that she doesn’t work for and is not associated with the Russian government in any way — as far as they know.
“What do you base your certainty on?” Sciutto probed.
The lawyer explained that the only capacity in which Agalarov knows Veselnitskaya is as a real estate attorney in Moscow. He went on to say that at no time did his clients ever direct Goldstone to say the things he said in the email to Trump Jr. nor did they talk about those issues with Mr. Goldstone.
When asked about any ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin the attorney said that his clients don’t have a relationship with him other than receiving a high-level award from him.
“Well, not an insignificant high-level award,” Sciutto noted. “Awarded to people who President Putin considers important people. So, are you saying there’s no relationship or it was not a particularly close relationship?”
“I’m saying it’s the case that he’s an important person in the Russian Federation, a successful businessman, involved in lots of activities which have put him in high prominence,” Balber said. “He doesn’t have a personal relationship with Putin anymore than any other powerful person has with their leadership.”
Balber also noted that he is looking back through documents, emails and phone records with his clients in the way that the Trumps have done surrounding this meeting but there is “no recollection” that there were phone calls before or after these emails were sent by Goldstone.
Forbes reporter Noah Kirsch said that Feb. 28 he spoke with Emin. ” He told me he was in recent contact with both Donald Trump Jr and Eric Trump,” Kirsch tweeted late Thursday.
SARAH K. BURRIS
14 JUL 2017 AT 00:44 ET
Attorney Scott Balber (Photo: Screen capture)
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In a late-night interview with CNN’s Jim Sciutto and Pamela Brown, Scott Balber — the attorney for Russian oligarch Aras Agalarov and his son Emin — confirmed the Agalarovs spoke President Donald Trump’s son, Donald Trump Jr during the campaign.
“I wanted to bottom line ask did your client speak to Donald Trump Jr. before or after the meeting with the Russian lawyer?” Brown asked the attorney about Natalia Veselnitskaya who met with the Trump campaign in June 2016.
“At some point, before the meeting, yes, but likely months before,” he replied. “He has no recollection of any conversation by telephone or otherwise in this time frame with Donald Trump Jr. either. He doesn’t believe it happened.”
“So when you say months before, was this during the campaign he spoke to him?”
“No, he has no specific recollections of any conversation on this topic. He spoke to Donald Trump Jr. over the course of time during the couple of years before this time frame in which they had known each other but nothing about this issue.”
“So they did have a phone relationship?” Brown asked.
“Uh, they had spoken on the phone at points in time, that’s correct,” Balber said.
“And do you know how many times during the presidential campaign this happened?” Brown asked.
“I have no idea,” the attorney replied.
And what bout his father, Aras, because he did have a relationship with his father, Donald Trump. Did they speak during the campaign?” Brown asked.
“Again, nobody has any recollection of conversations between Aras Agalarov and Donald Trump Sr. during that time frame either,” Balber replied.
Sciutto cut in to ask about a “better sense” of the attorney publicist Rob Goldstone called a “Russian government lawyer.”
“Let me put this in context if I can,” Bilber began. “The story here — the theory is that Russian government was in possession of highly confidential super-secret devastating information about Hillary Clinton that would affect the outcome of the election and change the future of the free world and they debated how should we convey that to the Trump campaign? And someone said let’s get Rob Goldstone, a music publicist to convey the message? And let’s get as many people involved in the conversation and do it by email. It just makes no sense. And the answer to your question is –”
Sciutto cut in again: “To be fair Goldstone, yes, set up the meeting but the lawyer is a very well-connected lawyer with an effort, a history of challenging U.S. sanctions against Russians accused of human rights abuses, so these are big issues and she was at the center of fighting those issues. She didn’t just come out of nowhere.”
Balber conceded that she has been an opponent to many issues but that she doesn’t work for and is not associated with the Russian government in any way — as far as they know.
“What do you base your certainty on?” Sciutto probed.
The lawyer explained that the only capacity in which Agalarov knows Veselnitskaya is as a real estate attorney in Moscow. He went on to say that at no time did his clients ever direct Goldstone to say the things he said in the email to Trump Jr. nor did they talk about those issues with Mr. Goldstone.
When asked about any ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin the attorney said that his clients don’t have a relationship with him other than receiving a high-level award from him.
“Well, not an insignificant high-level award,” Sciutto noted. “Awarded to people who President Putin considers important people. So, are you saying there’s no relationship or it was not a particularly close relationship?”
“I’m saying it’s the case that he’s an important person in the Russian Federation, a successful businessman, involved in lots of activities which have put him in high prominence,” Balber said. “He doesn’t have a personal relationship with Putin anymore than any other powerful person has with their leadership.”
Balber also noted that he is looking back through documents, emails and phone records with his clients in the way that the Trumps have done surrounding this meeting but there is “no recollection” that there were phone calls before or after these emails were sent by Goldstone.
Forbes reporter Noah Kirsch said that Feb. 28 he spoke with Emin. ” He told me he was in recent contact with both Donald Trump Jr and Eric Trump,” Kirsch tweeted late Thursday.
I can back that up... You were definitely one of the first to point that out. I kind of just dismissed it as something that a New administration would do..
but the telling bit it that initially Trumps people told Prett that he would not be terminated........ Then randomly Trump lets him go on March 10 and then a couple months later... His replacement settles a huge money laundering case that just happens to involve Russians and the same FUCKING ATTORNEY that the president's son met just a year ago.
I mean these puzzles pieces are beginning to look like..
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Drumpf got his marching orders from the Kremlin and then acted accordingly..
Hold the fuck up..... I just saw this shit...
So the Russian American Lobbyist.... couldn't have interpreted for her. They had to have another person.
So you have Three fucking people with Russian Ties and I'm not even including the music guy who lives there...
I can back that up... You were definitely one of the first to point that out. I kind of just dismissed it as something that a New administration would do..
but the telling bit it that initially Trumps people told Prett that he would not be terminated........ Then randomly Trump lets him got on March 10 and then a couple months later... His replacement settles a huge money laundering case that just happens to involve Russians and the same FUCKING ATTORNEY that the president's son met just a year ago.
I mean these puzzles pieces are beginning to look like..
Come on...that's just a coincidence. I swear you liberals are always reaching! America's being made GREAT again and you anti-americans are against it!
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The Russian chick says she doesn't speak English...
Which raises a question for me... Why would a lawyer from Russia who doesn't speak or read English be the lead attorney on the First case that she ever had in the United States.
When are these mufuka's going to get toe tagged b? When? All this talk and articles and leaks, yet Trump is still sleeping like a baby.
This Trump hysteria is like an industry unto itself. Ratings and views.
I doubt he's sleeping like a baby. As a matter of fact, we have lots of proof he isn't. Ol' Boy can't sleep. Tweeting non-sense at 2am, 3am, 4am. He sho nuff not getting no ass.
Also, this is President of the United States with the GOP in his pocket. When you finally come for him you have to be official. You have to have papers on top of papers of evidence and goon muscle. The sad thing is even with all of that it may not even be enough.
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Man I fucking calling it two days ago... These mutherfuckers are all about trying to say that this is somehow Obama's fault.
Lynch distances herself from Russian lawyer after Trump attack
BY JONATHAN EASLEY - 07/13/17 06:35 PM EDT 1,518
Former Attorney General Loretta Lynch on Thursday distanced herself from the Russian lawyer that gained entry into the U.S. before landing a meeting with Donald Trump Jr. during the 2016 presidential race.
At a press conference in France earlier Thursday, President Trump blamed the Obama administration and Lynch’s Justice Department for allowing Natalia Veselnitskaya into the country.
In a statement, a spokesperson for Lynch said the former attorney general “does not have any personal knowledge of Ms. Veselnitskaya's travel.”
In his remarks in France, Trump appeared to cite a report in The Hill that the Justice Department issued Veselnitskaya a special immigration waiver so that she could defend her client, a Russian firm, in an asset forfeiture case in New York.
The U.S. attorney’s office in New York told The Hill that it let Veselnitskaya into the country on a grant of immigration parole from October 2015 to early January 2016 after her initial request for a visa had been denied.
Court records show that when Veselnitskaya sought permission to extend her stay, the U.S. attorney at the hearing told the judge that the special visa the Russian lawyer received was part of a “discretionary act that the statute allows the attorney general to do in extraordinary circumstances.”
The U.S. attorney described the grant of parole immigration as extremely rare.
“In October the government bypassed the normal visa process and gave a type of extraordinary permission to enter the country called immigration parole,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Paul Monteleoni said to the judge during a hearing on Jan. 6, 2016.
“That's a discretionary act that the statute allows the attorney general to do in extraordinary circumstances,” Monteleoni said. “In this case, we did that so that Mr. Katsyv could testify. And we made the further accommodation of allowing his Russian lawyer into the country to assist.”
Lynch’s spokesperson did not address the specifics of that case, but said: “The State Department issues visas, and the Department of Homeland Security oversees entry to the United States at airports.”
Veselnitskaya was granted the special immigration parole for the limited purpose of defending a company owned by a Russian businessman in a Justice Department asset forfeiture case, but later participated in a wide-ranging pro-Russia lobbying campaign.
Over the summer of 2016, Veselnitskaya met with current and former lawmakers from both parties and was spotted in the front row of a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on Russia.
In June of 2016, Trump Jr., White House senior adviser Jared Kushner and then-campaign chairman Paul Manafort took a meeting with Veselnitskaya. A music promoter told Trump Jr. that Veselnitskaya had dirt on then-Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton. But Trump Jr. said the Russian lawyer instead pushed for changes to the Magnitsky Act, which punished Russians for human rights violations.
Democrats have seized on the meeting, claiming it as evidence that Trump officials sought to collude with the Russians in the campaign.
“She was here because of Lynch,” Trump said at a press conference in Paris with French President Emmanuel Macron.
“Nothing happened from the meeting,” Trump added. “Zero happened from the meeting, and honestly I think the press made a big deal over something that many people would do.”
http://thehill.com/homenews/adminis...erself-from-russian-lawyer-after-trump-attack
Lynch distances herself from Russian lawyer after Trump attack
BY JONATHAN EASLEY - 07/13/17 06:35 PM EDT 1,518
Former Attorney General Loretta Lynch on Thursday distanced herself from the Russian lawyer that gained entry into the U.S. before landing a meeting with Donald Trump Jr. during the 2016 presidential race.
At a press conference in France earlier Thursday, President Trump blamed the Obama administration and Lynch’s Justice Department for allowing Natalia Veselnitskaya into the country.
In a statement, a spokesperson for Lynch said the former attorney general “does not have any personal knowledge of Ms. Veselnitskaya's travel.”
In his remarks in France, Trump appeared to cite a report in The Hill that the Justice Department issued Veselnitskaya a special immigration waiver so that she could defend her client, a Russian firm, in an asset forfeiture case in New York.
The U.S. attorney’s office in New York told The Hill that it let Veselnitskaya into the country on a grant of immigration parole from October 2015 to early January 2016 after her initial request for a visa had been denied.
Court records show that when Veselnitskaya sought permission to extend her stay, the U.S. attorney at the hearing told the judge that the special visa the Russian lawyer received was part of a “discretionary act that the statute allows the attorney general to do in extraordinary circumstances.”
The U.S. attorney described the grant of parole immigration as extremely rare.
“In October the government bypassed the normal visa process and gave a type of extraordinary permission to enter the country called immigration parole,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Paul Monteleoni said to the judge during a hearing on Jan. 6, 2016.
“That's a discretionary act that the statute allows the attorney general to do in extraordinary circumstances,” Monteleoni said. “In this case, we did that so that Mr. Katsyv could testify. And we made the further accommodation of allowing his Russian lawyer into the country to assist.”
Lynch’s spokesperson did not address the specifics of that case, but said: “The State Department issues visas, and the Department of Homeland Security oversees entry to the United States at airports.”
Veselnitskaya was granted the special immigration parole for the limited purpose of defending a company owned by a Russian businessman in a Justice Department asset forfeiture case, but later participated in a wide-ranging pro-Russia lobbying campaign.
Over the summer of 2016, Veselnitskaya met with current and former lawmakers from both parties and was spotted in the front row of a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on Russia.
In June of 2016, Trump Jr., White House senior adviser Jared Kushner and then-campaign chairman Paul Manafort took a meeting with Veselnitskaya. A music promoter told Trump Jr. that Veselnitskaya had dirt on then-Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton. But Trump Jr. said the Russian lawyer instead pushed for changes to the Magnitsky Act, which punished Russians for human rights violations.
Democrats have seized on the meeting, claiming it as evidence that Trump officials sought to collude with the Russians in the campaign.
“She was here because of Lynch,” Trump said at a press conference in Paris with French President Emmanuel Macron.
“Nothing happened from the meeting,” Trump added. “Zero happened from the meeting, and honestly I think the press made a big deal over something that many people would do.”
http://thehill.com/homenews/adminis...erself-from-russian-lawyer-after-trump-attack
No this is a good thing I told you the CIA was following this Russian lawyer. Or she could have been an informant
Swell. I don't have a lot of confidence in something significant, but some collateral damage would be cool too. I guess we'll find out.
Honestly, That's the most we can hope for. This President is NEVER getting impeached and is too arrogant to resign. Had we had more control of the governing parties(Dem controlled) then yeah.
Heard something very similar this morning
Again this Russian lawyer was on the CIA surveillance someone in the CIA let her in to follow her to see who her contacts was Republicans better be careful or the whole going to get deeper for them
Man the last week everything became crystal clear on what is going on. Here's my scenario they was monitoring Russians the CIA was and the Russian lawyer was a part of that monitoring Trump people start calling all these Russians and that's when things got interesting with the CIA. Most likely they was monitoring the Russian lawyer woman because she was part of that money laundering case and so happened and Trump people started being a caught up in the web.I can back that up... You were definitely one of the first to point that out. I kind of just dismissed it as something that a New administration would do..
but the telling bit it that initially Trumps people told Prett that he would not be terminated........ Then randomly Trump lets him got on March 10 and then a couple months later... His replacement settles a huge money laundering case that just happens to involve Russians and the same FUCKING ATTORNEY that the president's son met just a year ago.
I mean these puzzles pieces are beginning to look like..
People are real pieces of shit! The lengths we will go to defend our position by giving up every piece of our morals and beliefs. The very essence of what makes us..us is really sad.
No one in their right minds can look at all this shit objectively and not be at the very least concerned.Moreover, had this been the Black President guy and his group. Shit, they would have had the pitch forks and noose tied up and ready to go right there on the white house lawn.
People don't understand sometimes it's not the crime is the lying that get you in trouble. Didn't learn nothing from Nixon
Nigga.. omg I'm praying it was Sessions
Damn. i get online late one day and all this shit breaks.... how many muthafuckas were in the room????