I can't speak for any others on here, but, I, for one, am so critical of Trump, RNC, GOP-controlled Congress, etc...NOT because I support the left, believe the media, engage in partisan bickering, knee-jerk anything....I am critical of those mentioned (and especially of those who loudly defend them...or decry any criticism) BECAUSE I am conservative...BECAUSE I hold most conservative values.....BECAUSE I hold those holding elected office with (R) behind their name to a higher standard. And I feel extraordinarily let down.

agreed

+1
Still a card holding member of the Republican party to this day. Even if I'm more of a Libertarian. 🌫

The Obama Justice Department allowed the Russian lawyer who met Donald Trump Jr. into the country for a court case months before the meeting occurred, The Hill reported.

Moscow attorney Natalia Veselnitskaya was given special permission to enter the United States by then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch, but the purpose was supposed to have been to work on a court case in New York City, and her stay was supposed to have been limited to October 2015 to early January 2016, The Hill reported Wednesday.


But no one has been able to explain why Veselnitskaya was still in the United States six months later, when she met with Trump Jr., Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner and then-campaign chairman Paul Manafort.

According to Trump Jr., Veselnitskaya claimed to have damaging information on Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, but their brief 20-minute meeting in Trump Tower instead focused on Russian adoption issues. Her purported information on Clinton was incomprehensible, he said.

Veselnitskaya herself says she was attempting to sway Trump to either overturn the Magnitsky Act, which punishes Russian officials and businessmen believed tied to the death of Sergei Magnitsky, whom the United States maintains was killed in a Moscow jail awaiting trial on phony tax-fraud charges.

Russian President Vladimir Putin was so incensed at the legislation he stopped Americans from adopting Russian orphans.


Veselnitskaya was seen around Washington during the same time she met with Trump Jr., The Hill reported. She attended a showing of an anti-Magnitsky film at the Newseum and can be seen in video footage sitting behind a former U.S. ambassador testifying about American-Russian relations before the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

She also attended a dinner with Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif., chairman of the House subcommittee on Russia policy, The Hill reported.

"There was a dinner at the Capitol Hill Club here with about 20 people," Rohrabacher said, per The Hill. "I think I was the only congressman there. They were talking about the Magnitsky case. But that wasn't just the topic. There was a lot of other things going on. So I think she was there, but I don't remember any type of conversation with her between us. But I understand she was at the table."

Veselnitskaya was present with U.S. colleagues, including former Democratic Rep. Ronald Dellums, a friend of Rohrabacher's. Rohrabacher said he believes Dellums was a hired lobbyist to aid in trying to overturn the Magnitsky Act, or at least keep Magnitsky's name off a global act being considered by Congress.

"I don't think this was very heavily lobbied at all compared with the other issues we deal with," he told The Hill.

But such lobbying fell outside the limited time and reasons Veselnitskaya was granted permission to enter the United States without a visa.

She was allowed into the country to help with a Justice Department asset forfeiture case against a company owned by Russian businessman Denis Katsyv.


"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 told a judge Jan. 6, 2016.

"That's a discretionary act that the statute allows the Attorney General to do in extraordinary circumstances," he 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."

Officials in the Justice and State departments were not able to explain how Veselnitskaya remained in the country past her January deadline, The Hill reported.

Others who said they were lobbied by Veselnitskaya, who does not speak English, said they came away from those meetngs just as perplexed as Donald Trump Jr. said he did.

Film at 11... 🤔



Thanks Obama..!! 😠

why did she seek special permission?
should have just walked across the southern border.
what a noob!

[but seriously, im not sure what that article has to do with anything bud]

The article clearly states Obama and his admin hired her to seek out young Trump and make him do things he didn't know he should not be doing... it's all there... 😟

Drafter pretty closely follows the talking points and the playbook. It's amazing. I'm never sure if it is intentional or more a pied piper thing but it sure is predictable lol.

But I agree. Once again the Trumps are the victim here.

ya... poor Trumps... 😞

I'm still just saying there's tons more to go through. So many players, so much money, so many unreported meetings and monies...

Believe it or not, for the good of the country, I hope it isn't as bad as it could be.

There woulda been if she hadn't deleted them all.. 🤣

She only deleted the stuff about exercise classes and grandkid stuff........nothing important 🤥

#130 you are talking about the clinton foundation?

;)

To all of you who are complaining about the Republitards and the Demonrats,
Welcome to the Libertarian Party.........

WE HAVE BEEN EXPECTING YOU!


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Stinkdyr is McAffee..?? 😕

Huh. It seams the admin is still not forth coming. Shocking. Another interesting character in the meeting.

But Hillary lied and stuff too and since all in here were ok with her slime President Tard's slime is cool with us too.

apology accepted... 😟

At least President Tard is no longer allowed to drive.

Kidding aside my ample gut is telling me for the first time there may be meat on this Russian bone and President Tard's admin may be in trouble.

Until now I figured they wouldn't lie about anything obviously prove able. I'm losing faith in his tardiness. I suspect we are in for a wild ride.

at the time Trump wasn't even close to winning the election... this lawyer had to have reached out to Clinton also... why aren't we hearing about that..?? 😕