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Adam Schiff does it again.
He hits the bullseye of the Trump-Russia target — that goes directly to the heart of the matter:
What did Donnie Senior know, and WHEN did he know it?
Russia inquiry: House Democrats aim to unmask Trump Jr.’s blocked call
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Rep. Adam Schiff, who is poised to lead the committee when Democrats take over the House majority, told USA TODAY his committee will have to prioritize the most important witnesses and records that Republicans blocked them from pursuing. The “clearest example” of that obstruction, he said, is phone records that would show whether the blocked phone number – logged as Trump Jr. arranged a meeting in 2016 with a Russian lawyer in Trump Tower – belonged to presidential candidate Donald Trump.
Trump’s son arranged the meeting in June 2016 after being promised “dirt” on Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. At first, Trump Jr. said he never told his father of the meeting, then he told Senate investigators he couldn't recall whom he spoke with that night.
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“Republicans refused to look at the phone records so that we could find out because they were afraid of what the answer might be,” the California Democrat said.
Guess who’s not afraid to find out, who Donnie Jr conspired with …?
Rep Adam Schiff, and the soon to be super-charged House Intel Committee.
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As a gentle reminder, here’s some of what the Trump “masterminds” would have been talking about on those 3 blocked calls, that resulted in the “Above the Law” brain-trust, taking Russia up on their generous offer.
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The Crown prosecutor of Russia met with his father Aras this morning and in their meeting offered to provide the Trump campaign with some official documents and information that would incriminate Hillary and her dealings with Russia and would be very useful to your father.
This is obviously very high level and sensitive information but is part of Russia and its government's support for Mr. Trump - helped along by Aras and Emin.
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www.cnn.com — July 2017
Imagine how “disappointed” they’d be, to learn that they’d have to give up “something” in the process, of getting said-Dirt from those Russian operators. (Jared and Paul had to explain it to them in the post-meeting.)
In the end, they got want they wanted — “witch” exceeded their pettiest of petty-crimes dreams …
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Trump says WikiLeaks 141 times in month before election
IOW,
Quid.Pro.Quo.
Accomplished.
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