Really Quick Diary Here.
As you watch the news and read the Donald Trump Jr’s statement the thing the Trumps are trying to cling to is “Donald Trump Jr had no idea who he was meeting with.” I just watched Jason Miller on CNN try to give that very explanation. Rob Goldstone’s email contradict this.:
“I will send the names of the two people meeting with you for security when I have them later today.”
Those names (one of which is Natalia Veselnitzkaya) aren’t in this email thread. Unless those names bypassed DTJr and went straight to security then there is another thread of emails that contain the names of the people that Trump Jr were going to meet with. One would assume that their names needed to be sent to security in order to get access since Donald Trump Senior was the Republican Nominee and Trump Tower would have been under Secret Service protection.
Bonus Lie: Statement from Rob Goldstone:
Rob’s characterization doesn’t match up when you read his email that says “I won’t sit in on the meeting, but will bring them at 3pm and introduce you etc.”
Either Rob sat in on a meeting that he was supposed to leave OR he was fed the same cover story that everyone else has. Notice the “He agreed to fit us into a very tight meeting schedule.” This is an obvious attempt to make this meeting less than what it was. If you read the thread there isn’t anything tight about Donald Trump Jr’s schedule. DTJr actually was very flexible with his schedule, coordinating and moving the meeting around with Kushner and Manafort to accommodate Natalya’s court appearance.
The next question is who is the “them.” Goldstone said he will give “their names.” We know that one of them was Natalia and according to Natalia the second person was the interpreter. Who is the interpreter that was at this meeting? The interpreter could confirm or deny everything that was said (unless the interpreter comes up missing, or worse the interpreter was the ACTUAL Russian Agent). — I’ll stop here for fear of going down the Glenn Beck Rabbit Hole