WASHINGTON (AP) — The Russian lawyer who met with President Donald Trump’s eldest son during the 2016 election campaign said she’s ready to testify before the U.S. Senate and “clarify the situation behind this mass hysteria.”
Donald Trump Jr. agreed to meet with Natalia Veselnitskaya in the expectation of receiving incriminating information about Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton as part of a Russian government effort to help his father’s White House campaign, according to emails Trump Jr. has publicly released. Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and then-campaign chairman Paul Manafort also attended the June 2016 meeting at Trump Tower.
The meeting raised new questions about the Trump campaign’s possible ties to Moscow, which are being scrutinized by federal and congressional investigators. These questions have only intensified as the identities of other Russia-connected participants have become known.
“I am ready to clarify the situation behind the mass hysteria, but only through lawyers or testifying in the Senate,” Veselnitskaya said in an interview with Kremlin-funded RT television broadcast Wednesday.
“If the Senate wishes to hear the real story, I will be happy to speak up and share everything I wanted to tell Mr. Trump,” she added. That appeared to be a reference to Veselnitskaya’s previous statement that the meeting with Trump Jr. focused on U.S.-Russian adoption policies and a U.S. sanctions law.
She has denied working for the Russian government.
Veselnitskaya has not responded to repeated attempts by The Associated Press to reach her for comment.
Democratic lawmakers involved in the investigations have expressed skepticism about that account.
If she lives that long…
More of Comrade Cockholster’s new, improved #MAGA
So let me get this straight-
The republican congress is going to invite a likely asset of Russian Intelligence to testify in the belief that whatever she says is in fact both accurate and truthful? And then will knowingly craft policy based on that ‘testimony’?
James Angleton is ****** thrashing in his grave. And the stars at Langley will be exploding off the wall in betrayed rage.
Wonder if this is what Trump’s 2nd G20 meeting with Putin was about?
As a Russian asset there is every reason to expect her testimony is exclusively to further Russian interests.
So if Putin want to protect Trump, her testimony will help him, if Putin’s intent is to hurt Trump, expect salacious details and if Putin decides ambiguity and disruption is his desire, expect salacious detail that can be disproved, but also some that is easily proven.
Regardless of what she says, even if throwing Trump and company inder the bus it must be remembered that it is a Putin approved testimony. And should not be trusted.
Hysteria. This from a woman who called liberalism a fucking mental illness. But just look at her. What a rage filled little viper she is. She needs to stop diagnosing other people and get some help herself. Go guzzle some vodka, sit in a sauna, flog yourself and jump in a frozen lake.
Anyway, no one will ask her to testify because she will just lie strait faced. Might as well invite Putin.