Again, TPTB blaze away at Trump, and shoot out another wall that holds up society. If people cannot talk to a lawyer without their words being later used against them, they have NO reason to trust an attorney.

If attorneys are now just going to be informants when their price is met, there's no difference between them and the pigs.

Everyone knew he was a philanderer. Goes back decades. Just dig up his appearances on the Howard Stern show.

Those that voted for him knew and didn't care. They won't care in 2020.

Oh the outrage!

Oh Dems never f'd around, never. The party of the pure. Unless of course you go back in history. like the Reconstruction thing and the Jim Crow and Robert Byrd and the Kennedy brothers and the Clinton Creatures male appendage and and and and

This is BS. Can't touch him on this crap or Russia or "secret" meetings with other heads of State.

Can't touch me?

Alan Dershowitz was feeling great angst about it and warned: "We must find out who is the source of this damaging leak — damaging to all Americans who place their faith in the promise of confidentiality from the professionals in whom they confide." He seems to blame Cohen, since Cohen unethically recorded it without his client's permission.

Meanwhile, an adjacent story — Cohen Ready To Flip: Will Tell Mueller Trump Knew About Trump Tower Meeting — claims that Cohen is now turning on Trump. All in all, I thought the Tylers did a pretty good job of putting this entire bait and switch pandemic into perspective.

Although the Russian lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya, has always insisted she went to New York to lobby the Trump campaign about reversing the Magnitsky Act — I was skeptical. She flew to New York — six months before the election — to lobby a toss-up candidate? Why not wait to see who wins the election, then lobby a President? We know from subsequent Congressional testimony that no opposition research on Hillary changed hands, and Trump had no "dirt" on Hillary to offer during his campaign, so that part was a lie. To top it off, we find out that Veselnitskaya received special permission by the Obama DOJ to enter the U.S. and take that meeting. To me, this looks like a sting operation.

Next, we discovered from subsequent congressional hearings that Rob Goldstone, the UK publicist who set up her meeting with Trump Jr., was a Fusion GPS associate. Fusion GPS is the firm that created opposition research for Hillary Clinton — the fake Steele Dossier. This dossier was immediately used to trick the court into issuing FISA warrants, which allowed the FBI to legally infiltrate and spy on the Trump campaign.

Goldstone said during Congressional testimony that he believes the June 9, 2016 meeting at Trump Tower was a "bait and switch" by the Russian lawyer/lobbyist who had promised "dirt" on Hillary Clinton. Goldstone admitted that he used hyperbolic language on purpose to ensure that the meeting would take place.

“I, therefore, used the strongest hyperbolic language ["dirt on Hillary"] in order to secure this request from Donald Trump Jr. based on the bare facts I was given,” said Goldstone.

“It was an example of, I was given very limited information, and my job was to get a meeting, and so I used my professional use of words to emphasize what my client had only given bare-bones information about, in order to get the attention of Mr. Trump Jr.”

Goldstone remarked that afterward, "it seemed to me to have been a bait and switch by somebody who appeared to be lobbying for what I now understood to be the Magnitsky Act" — which sanctions Russian officials thought to be involved in the death of a Russian tax accountant.

Natalia Veselnitskaya is described as a "Trump-hating attorney" and it turns out that she is also a Fusion GPS associate. She represents Russian businessman Denis Katsyv, who is keenly interested in overturning the Magnitsky Act. Last JUly 2017, the Washington Post, reported that a spokesman from Trump's outside legal counsel, Mark Corallo, described the involvement of Fusion GPS:

Specifically, we have learned that the person who sought the meeting is associated with Fusion GPS, a firm which according to public reports, was retained by Democratic operatives to develop opposition research on the president and which commissioned the phony Steele dossier.

On June 3, 2016, Goldstone sent an email to Trump Jr. to set up the meeting. Writing from the UK, Goldstone was effusive with admiration for his father and told Trump Jr. that Russia supported him. Using what Goldman later described to the Congressional Committee as his "professional use of words" he suggested the Russian lawyer had some official documents and information that would incriminate Hillary in her dealings with Russia.

Trump Jr. was eager to contribute to the campaign's ongoing opposition research on Hillary. He replied to Goldstone that “if it’s what you say I love it especially later in the summer.” But the "official documents" were never produced in the meeting, which ended early. Also attending the meeting was a Russian-born Washington lobbyist testified before the Congressional Committee that he also had a business relationship with Fusion GPS.

Both before and after the Trump Tower meeting, where she lobbied against the Magnitsky Act on behalf of her Russian client, Natalia Veselnitskaya met personally with Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson.

So, how much did Hillary pay to buy all that?

The heavily redacted Fusion GPS bank records given to the Congressional Committees investigating this operation showed the Clinton Campaign's law firm, Perkins Coie, paid Fusion a total of $1,024,408 in 2016 for opposition research on then-candidate Donald Trump - including the infamous "Steele dossier."

There you have it — Hillary Clinton, the Democratic Party, and the Russian oligarchs worked together on this masterpiece with the FBI, James Comey, Ron Rosenstein, and the embedded neocon authorities and psychopaths to push this savage nation toward a profiteering global war.

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Now we learn that Donald Trump also spent some money to control information that was oppositional to his campaign — a comparatively tiny amount. And he didn't collude with the Russians to get the job done.

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