One plus Two = Trump is a traitor.


#1. At the G20 Summit, Hamburg, Germany, on July 7, 2017, Trump and Putin met face to face for the first time (that we know about.)

On that same day, the White House was notified by the New York Times that it was about to run a story about a meeting in Trump Tower during the presidential campaign. Donald Jr and other high ranking Trump campaign officials (Manafort, Kushner) had met with a Kremlin-related lawyer.

Again, on that same day, on the night of July 7, 2017, after Trump received the Times notification, the Russian leader and the American leader again met, this time clandestinely to the side of a banquet room, for more than an hour, with only Putin's translator present. Trump did not report this meeting or his conversation with Putin even to his advisors.

When this meeting was reported by others in attendance at the G20, both the official Russian press and Trump claimed that they discussed ADOPTIONS.

Huh?

"Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump discussed the issue of adoptions at the G20 summit dinner two weeks ago, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Thursday, following US media revelations of a second, undisclosed meeting on the G20 sidelines in Hamburg on July 7-8." - This report is from Sputnik News (https://sptnkne.ws/eW77).

MOSCOW (Sputnik) "I can confirm indeed this topic was touched upon. I cannot say more than that," Peskov said."

MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Peskov added that the dinner conversation between Putin and Trump was not a "secret meeting."

On July 19, 2017, in an audio interview with the New York Times, Trump himself repeated the ADOPTION theme:

Describing a newly disclosed informal conversation he had with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia during a dinner of world leaders in Germany this month, Mr. Trump said they talked for about 15 minutes, mostly about "pleasantries." But Mr. Trump did say that they talked "about adoption."

The idea of ADOPTIONS as the topic of conversation Trump himself would confirm must have come from something Putin himself said.

In 2012, Putin had put into effect a law banning adoptions of Russian orphan by US parents, as retaliation for a US law known as the Magnitsky Act that had sanctioned Russian officials and nationals for human rights abuses. If the two men discussed lifting the American sanctions on Russia, the word ADOPTION may well have come up.

It is very unlikely that Trump, not known for his command of policy facts, was so steeped in the details of our foreign policy as to initiate a conversation or even mention of the issue of ADOPTIONS, regardless of what the essence of the Trump-Putin conversation was, and it surely was not about ADOPTIONS.

Sanctions maybe, ADOPTIONS no.

#2. Donald Jr. on July 8, 2017 issued a statement to the New York Times which claimed that the Trump Tower meeting on June 9, 2016, with a Russian lawyer, was also about ADOPTIONS.

In that statement to the New York Times, Don Jr downplayed the Trump Tower meeting, saying that the participants "primarily discussed a program about the adoption of Russian children."

Here is his statement:

It was a short introductory meeting. I asked Jared and Paul to stop by. We primarily discussed a program about the adoption of Russian children that was active and popular with American families years ago and was since ended by the Russian government, but it was not a campaign issue at the time and there was no follow up.

I was asked to attend the meeting by an acquaintance, but was not told the name of the person I would be meeting with beforehand.

The lawyers and Donald Jr. have generally since acknowledged that the meeting, was about helping Trump get elected (that is what the words often used for the meeting "getting dirt on Hillary Clinton" mean.)

In letter dated January 29, 2018, to special counsel Mueller, Trump's attorneys John Dowd and Jay Sekulow contradicting all that was said before acknowledged that Trump "dictated" his son's statement to the New York Times.

Conclusion.

#1. Putin and Trump discussed Putin's desire that Trump remove America's sanctions against Russia. The word ADOPTION came up. Trump embraced it as a cover for his own conversation with Putin, and then...

#2. Trump, a man of limited imagination, used the same claim about ADOPTION in the statement he dictated for Don Jr. to send to New York Times.

In the end, Don Jr.'s false statement was nothing more ventriloquism, by Putin, one step removed, via Trump.

First, at the G20, Trump himself schemed against the American people with the leader of a foreign power.

Second, he then tried to hide information about his Campaign's Conspiracy with Russia.

Some call it Collusion; legally, it is called Conspiracy. Either way, it is Treason.

#PutinsPuppet #TrumpTreason #IndictTrump

An aside, Natalia V. Veselnitskaya, the Russian lawyer who in 2016 met with Trump Campaign officials in Trump Tower, was charged on Tuesday [January 8, 2019] in a separate case that revealed her close ties to the Kremlin.

Expect to hear much about her going forward, just as you should expect to hear much about Trump's actions to hide the content of his meetings with Putin.

January 16, 2019

Post Script. As I was about to post my speculations above, I discovered Andrew Weiss, a Russian expert at the Carnegie Institute, had laid out the same timeline about the Trump-Putin meetings at the G20 and the intersection with the New York Times coverage of the Trump Tower meeting with even more detail.

Read and absorb.

Weiss's is another, much more elegant way to approach the same information.

Either way, it doesn't look pretty for Trump.

I look forward to hearing what Mueller has to say, unless Robert Barr prevents us from ever reading the report. But that is another matter.

Here is Andrew Weiss' Twitter thread. January 14, 2019.





















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