But that meeting may have been a ploy to get Team Trump to merely discuss The Magnitsky Act and there was no intention of ever handing over information on Clinton.
Or was it just a cover?
Whatever. It needs investigating because this meeting has shown that Team Trump was willing to work with Russia during an election campaign, which although not treason is illegal, and also shows the potential for treason and/or blackmail later on once in power
Two months before Donald Trump Jr.’s encounter with a Russian figure, a key House subcommittee chairman received a similar overture in Moscow offering derogatory information about a U.S. policy that was upsetting Vladimir Putin.
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, a California Republican with a reputation as a Moscow ally in Congress, told The Hill the information he received in April 2016 came from the chief prosecutor in Moscow and painted an alternative picture of the Russian fraud case that led to the passage of anti-Russia legislation in Congress known as the Magnitsky Act.
“I had a meeting with some people, government officials, and they were saying, ‘Would you be willing to accept material on the Magnitsky case from the prosecutors in Moscow? ‘And I said, ‘Sure, I’d be willing to look at it,’” Rohrabacher recalled in an interview.
The congressman’s account provides the latest evidence that the overture to President Trump’s eldest son in June 2016 by a Russian lawyer named Natalia Veselnitskaya was part of a larger campaign by Moscow that predated the Trump Tower encounter and continued afterwards.
The focus was to sow distrust among American leaders about the Magnitsky Act, and influence far more than Trump’s inner circle. It included lobbying overtures to journalists, State Department officials and lawmakers and congressional staff from both parties, according to interviews with participants and recipients of the campaign.
EXCLUSIVE: Trump Jr. pitch was part of broad Russian effort https://t.co/9PR9QpiFxY pic.twitter.com/AiQJU3su7V
— The Hill (@thehill) 14 July 2017
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