EVIDENCE: TRUMP TOWER MEETING SET UP BY HILLARY OPERATIVES,
Newly released records, pattern of efforts by Democrats employed by
Russians, by Art Moor, 8/13/18, WND.
Simpson, however, also testified he had no knowledge of the meeting with Donald
Trump Jr. and others until it was reported a year later.
Newly released records and a pattern of
efforts by Hillary Clinton operatives employed by Kremlin-linked figures to
connect the Trump campaign to Russia indicate the infamous Trump Tower meeting
between a Russian lawyer and Trump campaign staff may have been a set up.
Lee Smith of Real Clear Investigations
reported the first
line of evidence includes emails, texts and memos recently turned over to
Congress by the Department of Justice.
The records, he said, show how closely
senior Justice Department officials and the Federal Bureau of Investigation
worked with employees of Fusion GPS, the research firm paid by the Hillary Clinton
campaign and the Democratic National Committee to create the still-unverified “dossier” of dirt on Trump
obtained from Russian operatives.
Smith noted the June 2016 Trump Tower
meeting between high-ranking Trump campaign staff, including Donald Trump Jr.,
and a Russian lawyer is cited as key evidence that Trump colluded with Russia
to defeat Hillary Clinton. But Smith contends a growing body of
evidence indicates “the real collusion may have taken place among those who
arranged the meeting rather than the Trump officials who agreed to attend it.”
The records show then-Associate Deputy
Attorney General Bruce Ohr, the fourth-highest-ranking official at DOJ,
coordinated before, during and after the election with Fusion GPS founder Glenn
Simpson and former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele, the author
of the anti-Trump dossier. It was Simpson, who did work for the Clinton
campaign and Russians, who employed Steele.
Ohr’s wife, as congressional
investigators have pointed out, is Nellie Ohr, who was employed by Fusion GPS. After Steele was dismissed by the
FBI for unauthorized disclosures to media, Bruce Ohr became the liaison between
Fusion GPS and the FBI, directly relaying opposition research on the Trump
campaign.
Their combined efforts resulted in
the 35-page dossier, which was used by the FBI to obtain a warrant to spy on
Trump campaign volunteer Carter Page.
Smith presents a second line of
evidence: Beginning in March 2016, FBI and Western intelligence sources, along
with the Clinton campaign, approached the Trump team promising dirt on Clinton.
The Trump Tower meeting apparently
was the one instance in which the Trump campaign expressed a willingness to
receive incriminating information on the Democratic Party nominee.
“These two strands of evidence – the
DOJ’s collaboration with Clinton-paid researchers and efforts to connect the
Trump campaign to Russia – came together in midtown Manhattan on June 9, 2016
at Trump Tower,” Smith wrote.
“At the center of it all was Fusion
GPS, which had two clients whose interests were served by the Trump Tower
meeting: the Russians and the Clinton campaign.”
Smith pointed out that in sworn
Senate testimony last year, Simpson claimed the Trump Tower meeting
corroborated one of the key claims made in the reports filed by Steele: “Trump
and his inner circle have accepted a regular flow of intelligence from the
Kremlin, including on his Democratic and other political rivals.”
Smith said there is reason to doubt
that account, because the Russian lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya, was
his client.
Veselnitskaya has publicly stated that
in the discussion at Trump Tower she used talking points developed by Simpson for the Russian government.
Simpson also has testified that he had
dinner with Veselnitskaya the night before the Trump Tower meeting and the
night after, Smith noted.
The dossier, however, claims Donald Trump himself, campaign manager Paul
Manafort and Carter Page were in clandestine contact with the Russian
government.
If that were the case, former FBI agent
Mark Wauck told Real Clear Investigations, it’s not clear why the Russian
government needed British music publicist Rob Goldstone to entice Donald Trump
Jr. to the meeting.
“And why would Moscow need to send a
Russian lawyer who didn’t speak English to Trump Tower? That tends to confirm
that the meeting was intended as a setup.”
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody
GA Tea Party Leader
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