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The Curious Case Of Natalia Veselnitskaya
Jul 19, 2017 15:03:31   #
Squiddiddler Loc: Phoenix
 
Did the Russian lawyer visit the Trump campaign to undermine it?

THE CURIOUS CASE OF NATALIA VESELNITSKAYA

By Matthew Vadum

July 15, 2017

It turns out the Moscow-based lawyer whose brief meeting with Trump campaign officials last year was obtained under false pretenses has significant ties to Democrat opposition researchers in the United States and was extended special privileges by the Obama administration.

Could this mean attorney Natalia Veselnitskaya came, or perhaps was sent, to America to hurt Donald Trump’s campaign for president? And if Veselnitskaya had less-than-honorable intentions, what role, if any, did Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the Democratic National Committee play in this unfolding drama?

The Hill newspaper reports that the Obama administration went to extraordinary lengths to allow Veselnitskaya to enter the U.S. and remain here to complete her business in this country. After Veselnitskaya, who reportedly has several pro-Hillary Clinton and anti-Donald Trump items on her Facebook page, was denied a U.S. visa, then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch personally intervened and cleared the way for her to come to this country.

British music publicist Rob Goldstone helped to set up the storied June 9, 2016, meeting at Trump Tower in Manhattan between Veselnitskaya, Donald Trump Jr., then-campaign manager Paul Manafort, and presidential son-in-law Jared Kushner, claiming boastfully in an email exchange with Donald Jr. that the Russians wanted to share incriminating information about Democrat Hillary Clinton.

We now know Veselnitskaya had no earth-shattering revelations to impart about the Russia-friendly former secretary of state who was then running against Donald Trump. Instead of offering “Political Opposition Research” at the roughly 20-minute-long get-together, the Russian woman “had no information to provide and wanted to talk about adoption policy and the Magnitsky Act,” Donald Trump Jr. said earlier this week in a statement on Twitter.

The Magnitsky Act, which Russian President Vladimir Putin despises, allows the U.S. government to refuse visas to Russians considered guilty of human rights violations.

After it was enacted at the end of 2012, Russia retaliated by halting American adoptions of Russian orphans and banning entry to Russia by specific U.S. officials.

Veselnitskaya, who was a prosecutor in Russia 16 years ago, told NBC News she “never had any damaging or sensitive information about Hillary Clinton,” adding she wanted to let people know about “the real circumstances behind the Magnitsky Act,” and was hoping to testify about the sanctions statute before Congress.

There is some evidence that Democrats were working with Russia against the Trump campaign, radio talk show host Erick Erickson suggests.

“There is a remarkably small degree of separation between Natalia Veselnitskaya and Fusion GPS, the Democrat opposition research firm that came up with the Trump dossier,” Erickson writes, and this “raise[s] the issue of whether Democrats and Russians were as collaborative as the Democrats claim the Trump team was.”

The “piss-gate” dossier is the unvetted 35-page report written by former British spy Christopher Steele and published by cat-video website BuzzFeed. The FBI had been considering paying Steele “for his Trump dossier work,” Erickson notes.

“Fusion GPS was paid by a Democratic ally of Hillary Clinton’s to conduct the research,” the Daily Caller reported. The dubious document claimed, among other things, that Trump hired prostitutes to urinate on a hotel room bed in Moscow.

In 2012, the Russian government hired an army of lobbyists and lawyers to pursue repeal of the Magnitsky Act. One of the law firms retained was Baker Hostetler, which has ties to Fusion GPS. Fusion itself was co-founded by former journalist Glenn Simpson.

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) said Fusion worked on behalf of Russian interests but did not register as a foreign agent as required by federal law. “Fusion GPS was apparently simultaneously working on the unsubstantiated dossier alleging collusion between Trump presidential campaign associates and Russia” while at the same time helping the Russian government with the Magnitsky Act.

In 2013, the U.S. Department of Justice began trying to seize ill-gotten gains possessed by Russian-owned Prevezon Holdings, Grassley explained. Prevezon and the Russian government then began a campaign – in which Fusion GPS participated – to undermine the Magnitsky Act.

Natalia Veselnitskaya also worked for Preveson Holdings, Erickson writes, and, according to Russian media outlet Sputnik News, had “evidence” that could bolster the effort to repeal the Magnitsky Act.

In addition, Veselnitskaya worked with Rinat Akhmetshin, founder of the Human Rights Accountability Global Initiative Foundation, a man who has admitted to previously working as a “Soviet counterintelligence officer,” Erickson writes.

Of Akhmetshin, Grassley said:

In fact, it has been reported that he worked for the GRU and allegedly specializes in “active measures campaigns,” i.e., subversive political influence operations often involving disinformation and propaganda. According to press accounts, Mr. Akhmetshin “is known in foreign policy circles as a key pro-Russian operator,” and Radio Free Europe described him as a “Russian ‘gun-for-hire’ [who] lurks in the shadows of Washington’s lobbying world.” He was even accused in a lawsuit of organizing a scheme to hack the computers of one his client’s adversaries.
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Akhmetshin’s group happened to have retained Veselnitskaya as an attorney.

Erickson continues:

While all of this is going on, Fusion GPS is working on the opposition research dossier on Donald Trump using a foreign agent. Are we really supposed to believe that it is completely coincidental that Natalia Veselnitskaya just so happens to be the Russian lawyer who got access to Donald Trump, Jr.? Are we to believe that there is no direct relationship between Veselnitskaya and Fusion GPS?

It is remarkable how she gets a PR agent to urge Trump, Jr. to meet with her by promising Russian information about Hillary Clinton’s emails as the Clinton email server story is blowing up. And then it is remarkable how she gives a perfect performance to NBC News two days ago claiming she only talked with Trump about the Magnitsky Act, but assured the press that the Trump team was hoping for dirt on Hillary.

So many incredible coincidences, if that’s what they are.

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Jul 19, 2017 15:17:12   #
Ricktloml
 
[quote=Squiddiddler]Did the Russian lawyer visit the Trump campaign to undermine it?

THE CURIOUS CASE OF NATALIA VESELNITSKAYA

By Matthew Vadum

July 15, 2017

It turns out the Moscow-based lawyer whose brief meeting with Trump campaign officials last year was obtained under false pretenses has significant ties to Democrat opposition researchers in the United States and was extended special privileges by the Obama administration.

Could this mean attorney Natalia Veselnitskaya came, or perhaps was sent, to America to hurt Donald Trump’s campaign for president? And if Veselnitskaya had less-than-honorable intentions, what role, if any, did Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the Democratic National Committee play in this unfolding drama?

The Hill newspaper reports that the Obama administration went to extraordinary lengths to allow Veselnitskaya to enter the U.S. and remain here to complete her business in this country. After Veselnitskaya, who reportedly has several pro-Hillary Clinton and anti-Donald Trump items on her Facebook page, was denied a U.S. visa, then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch personally intervened and cleared the way for her to come to this country.

British music publicist Rob Goldstone helped to set up the storied June 9, 2016, meeting at Trump Tower in Manhattan between Veselnitskaya, Donald Trump Jr., then-campaign manager Paul Manafort, and presidential son-in-law Jared Kushner, claiming boastfully in an email exchange with Donald Jr. that the Russians wanted to share incriminating information about Democrat Hillary Clinton.

We now know Veselnitskaya had no earth-shattering revelations to impart about the Russia-friendly former secretary of state who was then running against Donald Trump. Instead of offering “Political Opposition Research” at the roughly 20-minute-long get-together, the Russian woman “had no information to provide and wanted to talk about adoption policy and the Magnitsky Act,” Donald Trump Jr. said earlier this week in a statement on Twitter.

The Magnitsky Act, which Russian President Vladimir Putin despises, allows the U.S. government to refuse visas to Russians considered guilty of human rights violations.

After it was enacted at the end of 2012, Russia retaliated by halting American adoptions of Russian orphans and banning entry to Russia by specific U.S. officials.

Veselnitskaya, who was a prosecutor in Russia 16 years ago, told NBC News she “never had any damaging or sensitive information about Hillary Clinton,” adding she wanted to let people know about “the real circumstances behind the Magnitsky Act,” and was hoping to testify about the sanctions statute before Congress.

There is some evidence that Democrats were working with Russia against the Trump campaign, radio talk show host Erick Erickson suggests.

“There is a remarkably small degree of separation between Natalia Veselnitskaya and Fusion GPS, the Democrat opposition research firm that came up with the Trump dossier,” Erickson writes, and this “raise[s] the issue of whether Democrats and Russians were as collaborative as the Democrats claim the Trump team was.”

The “piss-gate” dossier is the unvetted 35-page report written by former British spy Christopher Steele and published by cat-video website BuzzFeed. The FBI had been considering paying Steele “for his Trump dossier work,” Erickson notes.

“Fusion GPS was paid by a Democratic ally of Hillary Clinton’s to conduct the research,” the Daily Caller reported. The dubious document claimed, among other things, that Trump hired prostitutes to urinate on a hotel room bed in Moscow.

In 2012, the Russian government hired an army of lobbyists and lawyers to pursue repeal of the Magnitsky Act. One of the law firms retained was Baker Hostetler, which has ties to Fusion GPS. Fusion itself was co-founded by former journalist Glenn Simpson.

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) said Fusion worked on behalf of Russian interests but did not register as a foreign agent as required by federal law. “Fusion GPS was apparently simultaneously working on the unsubstantiated dossier alleging collusion between Trump presidential campaign associates and Russia” while at the same time helping the Russian government with the Magnitsky Act.

In 2013, the U.S. Department of Justice began trying to seize ill-gotten gains possessed by Russian-owned Prevezon Holdings, Grassley explained. Prevezon and the Russian government then began a campaign – in which Fusion GPS participated – to undermine the Magnitsky Act.

Natalia Veselnitskaya also worked for Preveson Holdings, Erickson writes, and, according to Russian media outlet Sputnik News, had “evidence” that could bolster the effort to repeal the Magnitsky Act.

In addition, Veselnitskaya worked with Rinat Akhmetshin, founder of the Human Rights Accountability Global Initiative Foundation, a man who has admitted to previously working as a “Soviet counterintelligence officer,” Erickson writes.

Of Akhmetshin, Grassley said:

In fact, it has been reported that he worked for the GRU and allegedly specializes in “active measures campaigns,” i.e., subversive political influence operations often involving disinformation and propaganda. According to press accounts, Mr. Akhmetshin “is known in foreign policy circles as a key pro-Russian operator,” and Radio Free Europe described him as a “Russian ‘gun-for-hire’ [who] lurks in the shadows of Washington’s lobbying world.” He was even accused in a lawsuit of organizing a scheme to hack the computers of one his client’s adversaries.
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Akhmetshin’s group happened to have retained Veselnitskaya as an attorney.

Erickson continues:

While all of this is going on, Fusion GPS is working on the opposition research dossier on Donald Trump using a foreign agent. Are we really supposed to believe that it is completely coincidental that Natalia Veselnitskaya just so happens to be the Russian lawyer who got access to Donald Trump, Jr.? Are we to believe that there is no direct relationship between Veselnitskaya and Fusion GPS?

It is remarkable how she gets a PR agent to urge Trump, Jr. to meet with her by promising Russian information about Hillary Clinton’s emails as the Clinton email server story is blowing up. And then it is remarkable how she gives a perfect performance to NBC News two days ago claiming she only talked with Trump about the Magnitsky Act, but assured the press that the Trump team was hoping for dirt on Hillary.

So many incredible coincidences, if that’s what they are.[/quote]

It's remarkable that ALL the collusion evidence uncovered in this near year long "investigation" points to the Obama administration, the Democrat party, and the media

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Jul 19, 2017 16:56:33   #
moldyoldy
 
Matthew Vadum will lie about anything he needs to in order to collect his wingnut welfare paychecks apparently. American values such as democracy be damned. It's partisan politics (and paychecks) at all costs

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=8634

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Jul 19, 2017 16:57:26   #
dangerkitten061 Loc: Arizona
 
Ricktloml wrote:
It's remarkable that ALL the collusion evidence uncovered in this near year long "investigation" points to the Obama administration, the Democrat party, and the media



This russian lawyer also had a pic taken of her in John McCain's office, the same McCain that sent an aide across the pond to pick up one "dirty dossier". We all know how pro Trump McCain is right? Wrong!!!!!

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Jul 19, 2017 17:08:17   #
SamFox
 
All the Dimm song & dance jive about Mr. Trump colluding with Russia is Dimm prog leftist deflection. What THEY have been up to is what they are trying to deflect on Mr. T & his administration.

If Putin & Co were going to support & try to help a candidate win in the last prez election, it would have been Hilldabeast. Putin could blackmail her twice every day & four times on Sunday. Shucks Goober, after her signing off on the sale of Uranium 1 to Russian interests, I doubt Putin & Co would even have to blackmail her. She would cooperate in any way possible to take the USA down Cloward & Piven's 'Strategy' & 'Rules For Radicals' style as outlined in the two books. New World Order 'Progressives' have been attacking the US from within for a long time. The 'Federal' Reserve is an example of just one older attack front.

SamFox

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Jul 19, 2017 18:40:31   #
moldyoldy
 
SamFox wrote:
All the Dimm song & dance jive about Mr. Trump colluding with Russia is Dimm prog leftist deflection. What THEY have been up to is what they are trying to deflect on Mr. T & his administration.

If Putin & Co were going to support & try to help a candidate win in the last prez election, it would have been Hilldabeast. Putin could blackmail her twice every day & four times on Sunday. Shucks Goober, after her signing off on the sale of Uranium 1 to Russian interests, I doubt Putin & Co would even have to blackmail her. She would cooperate in any way possible to take the USA down Cloward & Piven's 'Strategy' & 'Rules For Radicals' style as outlined in the two books. New World Order 'Progressives' have been attacking the US from within for a long time. The 'Federal' Reserve is an example of just one older attack front.

SamFox
All the Dimm song & dance jive about Mr. Trump... (show quote)


Believing lies like the uranium deal shows exactly why trumps small base is so backwards

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Jul 20, 2017 18:12:39   #
Mikeyavelli
 
All Donald Trump Jr. has to do to exonerate himself is to say that he told the Russians that after the election he would have more flexibility.
No one would dare criticize that, now would they?

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Jul 20, 2017 19:07:39   #
moldyoldy
 
Mikeyavelli wrote:
All Donald Trump Jr. has to do to exonerate himself is to say that he told the Russians that after the election he would have more flexibility.
No one would dare criticize that, now would they?


Yeah, they got more sanctions.

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Jul 20, 2017 20:17:35   #
SamFox
 
Gee moldy, what a great refutation of Hilldabeast & Uranium 1. I am so underwhelmed I cannot find the words...

How about we talk about Benghazi & "It was because of a video!" and "I just didn't feel like sending any extra security to Benghazi. So what if there were a lot of calls for the security..." or "I came under sniper fire..." at the airport. Hey, we could also discuss Pay To Play game shows at the Clinton Foundation.

Don't forget, it was Dimms who were using Natalia V & who was that again that got NV a 'special' visa so she could run around the USA? It wasn't D Trump Jr, that for sure.

https://www.independentsentinel.com/several-obama-agencies-helped-natalia-veselnitskaya-stay-u-s-trail-goes-cold/

SamFox

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Jul 20, 2017 22:23:59   #
moldyoldy
 
SamFox wrote:
Gee moldy, what a great refutation of Hilldabeast & Uranium 1. I am so underwhelmed I cannot find the words...

How about we talk about Benghazi & "It was because of a video!" and "I just didn't feel like sending any extra security to Benghazi. So what if there were a lot of calls for the security..." or "I came under sniper fire..." at the airport. Hey, we could also discuss Pay To Play game shows at the Clinton Foundation.

Don't forget, it was Dimms who were using Natalia V & who was that again that got NV a 'special' visa so she could run around the USA? It wasn't D Trump Jr, that for sure.

https://www.independentsentinel.com/several-obama-agencies-helped-natalia-veselnitskaya-stay-u-s-trail-goes-cold/

SamFox
Gee moldy, what a great refutation of Hilldabeast ... (show quote)



Right wing stupidity at its finest.
Nine bengazi investigations with no crimes, suddenly dismissed after the election. Can you see the hypocracy?
http://www.snopes.com/hillary-clinton-uranium-russia-deal/

http://www.factcheck.org/2015/04/no-veto-power-for-clinton-on-uranium-deal/

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/did-the-obama-doj-let-russian-lawyer-natalia-veselnitskaya-into-the-u-s/

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Jul 20, 2017 22:40:33   #
Mikeyavelli
 
Ha!
With a seeded obama jury nobody within the obama cabal ever ever committed any crime.
Illiar didn't mean it. The video did it. I can keep my doctor. I didn't build that. We are not a Christian nation. America was built on muslim teachings.
Yeah.

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