President Trump: Making America Great Again...

[Commando]

I'm pretty sure any campaign would take that meeting. Not sure if I would send Don Jr., but someone.

It's one thing if it's some random source. A foreign operative? Ehhh...

[falafel]

It's one thing if it's some random source. A foreign operative? Ehhh...

You get some low level operative, or someone totally off the books, to vet the info. But you take the meeting.

[creekster]

It's one thing if it's some random source. A foreign operative? Ehhh...

So you would meet with a "random source" who may or may not be a "foreign operative (and what does that mean, exactly?) but you would refuse someone who has announced their bias and connections even though the subject matter of the meeting is one you would otherwise be interested in? That doesn't make much sense to me.

[creekster]

You get some low level operative, or someone totally off the books, to vet the info. But you take the meeting.

I dont think the level status would matter too much.

[Commando]

So you would meet with a "random source" who may or may not be a "foreign operative (and what does that mean, exactly?) but you would refuse someone who has announced their bias and connections even though the subject matter of the meeting is one you would otherwise be interested in? That doesn't make much sense to me.

As in: Hey I'm a dude from Arkansas who used to work for the Clinton Gubernatorial campaign and we have some dirt that may read well in the Trump campaign(random source) vs. Hey I'm a Russian attorney with ties to the Kremlin who would like to meet with your campaign. Err we have dirt on Hilary if that makes the meeting any more enticing(foreign operative). One of those sounds more sketchy than the other to me.

*A foreign operative is an actor from a foreign, usually politically hostile country.

[Jeff Lebowski]

Holy cow. Several hours have passed and no yeah-but-the-democrats response from UT. Wonder if he is OK?

[Uncle Ted]

Trump junior met with a Kremlin lawyer because he was told she had damaging info on Clinton pass on. That's super normal.


http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-40560191

More damaging information on Crooked Hillary... Does it ever end?

So what was this damaging information? Was it more damaging than when Comey announced that he was re-opening the investigation because the FBI found classified emails with Hillary's name on the Wiener's laptop? It is hard to beat that. I am betting that SoB Comey was working for the Ruskies as well.

[old_gregg]

lol and the nyt reports that don jr was emailed before the meeting that the source of the potentially damaging info was the kremlin. dios mio what a dipshit.

[Uncle Ted]

More damaging information on Crooked Hillary... Does it ever end?

So what was this damaging information? Was it more damaging than when Comey announced that he was re-opening the investigation because the FBI found classified emails with Hillary's name on the Wiener's laptop? It is hard to beat that. I am betting that SoB Comey was working for the Ruskies as well.

Oh crap... FNews is saying this whole story is yet another "nothing burger":

And the "Kremlin Lawyer" didn't even have any dirt on Hillary!

[old_gregg]

Oh crap... FNews is saying this whole story is yet another "nothing burger":

And the "Kremlin Lawyer" didn't even have any dirt on Hillary!

ted, did you watch that video? i'm starting to think you might have actually voted for gary johnson and this whole thing isn't an elaborate schtick

[Walter Sobchak]

ted, did you watch that video? i'm starting to think you might have actually voted for gary johnson and this whole thing isn't an elaborate schtick

UT is off his game tonight. As his chosen second, I will stand in his place:

<https://www.forbes.com/2009/08/27/te...-robinson.html>

Picking his way through the Soviet archives that Boris Yeltsin had just thrown open, in 1991 Tim Sebastian, a reporter for the London Times, came across an arresting memorandum. Composed in 1983 by Victor Chebrikov, the top man at the KGB, the memorandum was addressed to Yuri Andropov, the top man in the entire USSR. The subject: Sen. Edward Kennedy.

“On 9-10 May of this year,” the May 14 memorandum explained, “Sen. Edward Kennedy’s close friend and trusted confidant [John] Tunney was in Moscow.” (Tunney was Kennedy’s law school roommate and a former Democratic senator from California.) “The senator charged Tunney to convey the following message, through confidential contacts, to the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Y. Andropov.”

Kennedy’s message was simple. He proposed an unabashed quid pro quo. Kennedy would lend Andropov a hand in dealing with President Reagan. In return, the Soviet leader would lend the Democratic Party a hand in challenging Reagan in the 1984 presidential election. “The only real potential threats to Reagan are problems of war and peace and Soviet-American relations,” the memorandum stated. “These issues, according to the senator, will without a doubt become the most important of the election campaign.”

Kennedy made Andropov a couple of specific offers.

First he offered to visit Moscow. “The main purpose of the meeting, according to the senator, would be to arm Soviet officials with explanations regarding problems of nuclear disarmament so they may be better prepared and more convincing during appearances in the USA.” Kennedy would help the Soviets deal with Reagan by telling them how to brush up their propaganda.

Then he offered to make it possible for Andropov to sit down for a few interviews on American television. “A direct appeal … to the American people will, without a doubt, attract a great deal of attention and interest in the country. … If the proposal is recognized as worthy, then Kennedy and his friends will bring about suitable steps to have representatives of the largest television companies in the USA contact Y.V. Andropov for an invitation to Moscow for the interviews. … The senator underlined the importance that this initiative should be seen as coming from the American side.”

Kennedy would make certain the networks gave Andropov air time–and that they rigged the arrangement to look like honest journalism.

Kennedy’s motives? “Like other rational people,” the memorandum explained, “[Kennedy] is very troubled by the current state of Soviet-American relations.” But that high-minded concern represented only one of Kennedy’s motives.

“Tunney remarked that the senator wants to run for president in 1988,” the memorandum continued. “Kennedy does not discount that during the 1984 campaign, the Democratic Party may officially turn to him to lead the fight against the Republicans and elect their candidate president.”

Kennedy proved eager to deal with Andropov–the leader of the Soviet Union, a former director of the KGB and a principal mover in both the crushing of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution and the suppression of the 1968 Prague Spring–at least in part to advance his own political prospects.

[Uncle Ted]

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Clearly she is lying... The CIA needs to waterboard the dirt on Clinton out of her.

[old_gregg]

trump's first tweets about hrc's emails were sent the same day as donny jr's meeting

[frank ryan]

trump's first tweets about hrc's emails were sent the same day as donny jr's meeting

This is all regular, par-for-the-course election stuff!

I love how some folks on here keep moving the goal posts. First it was "Russia didn't do anything," then it was "Russia wasn't trying to help any specific candidate," next it was "It's asinine to think Trump might have colluded, that is left-wing crazy talk," and now we're at "Any politician would have explored Russian offers of help."

[Jeff Lebowski]

This is all regular, par-for-the-course election stuff!

I love how some folks on here keep moving the goal posts. First it was "Russia didn't do anything," then it was "Russia wasn't trying to help any specific candidate," next it was "It's asinine to think Trump might have colluded, that is left-wing crazy talk," and now we're at "Any politician would have explored Russian offers of help."

Hey, cut these guys some slack. Being a Trumpologist is hard work!