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The hits important bits just keep being ferreted out from that Tell-all book about the keystone gang, otherwise known as the Trump Administration.
Here is one very important item that the Chicago Tribune is reporting:
[...] The Post reported last summer:
"Flying home from Germany on July 8 aboard Air Force One, Trump personally dictated a statement in which Trump Jr. said that he and the Russian lawyer had 'primarily discussed a program about the adoption of Russian children' when they met in June 2016, according to multiple people with knowledge of the deliberations. The statement, issued to the New York Times as it prepared an article, emphasized that the subject of the meeting was 'not a campaign issue at the time.'
"The claims were later shown to be misleading.
"Over the next three days, multiple accounts of the meeting were provided to the news media as public pressure mounted, with Trump Jr. ultimately acknowledging that he had accepted the meeting after receiving an email promising damaging information about Hillary Clinton as part of a Russian government effort to help his father's campaign."
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He [Mueller] now may want to talk with former Trump legal spokesman Mark Corallo. Axios reports on the following excerpt from Wolff's book: “Mark Corallo [former spokesman for Trump's personal legal team] ... privately confiding [to Wolff] that he believed the meeting on Air Force One represented a likely obstruction of justice — quit."
The Boston Globe summarized these Air Force One events, this way
The New York Times has also learned that four days before Comey was fired, one of Sessions’ aides asked a congressional staff member whether he had damaging information about Comey, part of an apparent effort to undermine the FBI director. It was not clear whether Mueller’s investigators knew about this incident. Mueller has also been examining a false statement that the president dictated on Air Force One in July in response to an article in The Times about a meeting that Trump campaign officials had with Russians during the campaign. A new book, “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House,” by Michael Wolff, says the president’s lawyers believed that the statement was “an explicit attempt to throw sand into the investigation’s gears,” and that it led one of Trump’s spokesmen to quit because he believed it constituted obstruction of justice.
This is important because bringing charges of Obstruction of Justice — requires evidence of “the intent” to Obstruction of Justice.
These events on Air Force One, and the subsequent Corallo resignation, may constitute such evidence of intent.
If Mr Mueller has not yet interviewed Mark Corallo (former spokesman for Trump's personal legal team), he better get to it.
Corallo didn’t ‘sell his soul’ for a pittance of Trump Gold. No, when he saw the genesis of intentional Obstruction right in front of him — he quit, rather than become a grinning co-conspirator.
The same cannot be said about the rest of the Trump foot-soldiers. They all fell in line, and help spread the Trump-penned cover-story about the Russia Meeting … a story that morphed and shape-shifted for days — before Jr finally spilled the beans (when he voluntarily made all his emails on the topic, public).
Inadvertently revealing the first smoking gun of their Russian conspiracy — and by simple deduction, their made-up Cover Story to hide it — and We the American people are now collectively exclaiming, with Junior-trademarked enthusiasm: “We love it!”