Trump and Putin, behind the scenes

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"These are pretty staggering admissions by Donald Trump Jr.," said Andrew Wright, an associate professor at Savannah Law School. "He confirms that Trump's son, son-in-law, and campaign chair met with a Russian lawyer for the express purpose of receiving damaging information about Trump's political opponent in an American presidential election."

Benjamin Wittes, the editor-in-chief of Lawfare, called the developments "devastating" and saidthat "it shows that the Trump folks were willing to cooperate with Kremlin in exchange for dirt on Hillary."

Wittes also said Trump's second statement to The Times indicated his "ONLY interest" in the meeting with Veselnitskaya "was the dirt the Russians might provide on Clinton."

Donald Trump's legal team said in a statement that "the president was not aware of and did not attend the meeting."

Donald Trump Jr. meeting with Russian lawyer raises new collusion questions - Business Insider

Not only that, the invitation was by email which argued specifically that the info came from the Russian government:

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’s candidacy, according to three people with knowledge of the email. 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 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.

Trump Jr. Was Told in Email of Russian Effort to Aid Campaign - The New York Times

So Trump Jr, Bannon and Kuchner went to a meeting expecting to receive dirt on Hillary from a Russian lawyer with close ties to the Kremlin and info gathered by the Russian government.

And Trump JR already had to change his story..

And CNN showed a video of Trump JR weeks after this meeting where he lambasted some guy from the DNC for suggesting the Russians are interfering in the election. He went quite far, calling the DNC guy an abject liar and arguing the DNC would do anything  to win. 

This might very well get back to bite Trump Jr..

And then we have the President's legal team arguing the President was unaware of this. Yea right. It was his son, his son in law, and his campaign manager who went to that meeting, fully expecting to get dirt on Hillary collected by the Kremlin. 

And after this, all these Podesta emails and DNC hacks appeared through Wikileaks.. Maybe just a coincidence, who knows. 

But these guys aren't exactly open about what happened, are they? Multiple people forgetting to disclose meetings with Russians, multiple change of stories, obstruction, attacks on the press, etc. etc.

Donald Trump Jr.'s assertion that he gained no meaningful information on Clinton from his meeting with Veselnitskaya is irrelevant, Bauer wrote, because "the president's son is admitting that the campaign arranged the meeting solely to get this information." At the very least, the meeting points to Trump's motive, said Jens David Ohlin, an associate dean at Cornell Law School and an expert on criminal law. "In other words, it demonstrates that at least some members of the Trump campaign were interested in procuring damaging information about Clinton and were willing to meet with Russians to get it," he said.

Donald Trump Jr. meeting with Russian lawyer raises new collusion questions - Business Insider