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Every passing week brings more evidence that the Donald Trump presidential campaign team willingly colluded with the espionage efforts of a foreign power in order to win the American presidency. That should be a shocking statement; for some reason, it has yet to sink in among the knowledgable brow-furrowing classes that popular our nation's Sunday shows.
A member of the campaign team was told that Russia had access to Clinton-camp emails; the top members of the campaign met in Trump Tower with a Russian team dispatched to "assist" the election efforts; Donald's son himself was contacted by Wikileaks in order to better facilitate Assange's release and promotion of the Russia-provided materials.
And from Paul Manafort to Donald Trump Jr. to son-in-law and dullard golden boy Jared Kushner, each of the top players has been caught lying about those actions in demonstrable, specific ways.
Jared Kushner may have a new problem regarding his testimony in the Trump-Russia scandal. Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser, told Capitol Hill investigators that he did not know of any contacts between the Trump campaign and WikiLeaks during the 2016 presidential campaign, according to his lawyer Abbe Lowell. But new evidence suggests that Kushner was told of such a contact when Donald Trump Jr. in September 2016 informed Kushner that he had exchanged messages with WikiLeaks.
So he lied. Junior told him, during the campaign, that he'd been communicating with the organization that had been releasing the hacked emails of the opposing campaign—one of the biggest news stories in America at the time. Jared somehow managed to forget this key and remarkable event during his own testimony, when questioned over whether this very exact event happened. That seems .... implausible.
In related news, two of the Russians that Jared Kushner met with, in that campaign meeting inside Trump Tower, are under increased scrutiny for their communications immediately before news of the meeting publicly broke earlier this year.
The Moscow meeting in June, which has not been previously disclosed, is now under scrutiny by investigators who want to know why the two men met in the first place and whether there was some effort to get their stories straight about the Trump Tower meeting just weeks before it would become public, The Associated Press has learned.
Congressional investigators have questioned both men — lobbyist Rinat Akhmetshin and Ike Kaveladze, a business associate of a Moscow-based developer and former Trump business partner — and obtained their text message communications, people familiar with the investigation told the AP.
Hmm.
