WOW-Details re: Kushner's mtg w/head of Russian-state owned VEB (arranged by Kislyak)

[kpete]

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http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN18N018

[BigmanPigman]

1. Does this mean that since it was for business and not espionage it's OK?

[NightWatcher]

2. Greed fueled espionage doesn't make it any better.

Ha ha charade you are


Love the screen name.

[chwaliszewski]

3. You well heeled, big wheel...

[L. Coyote]

5. It means he violated the law.

[BainsBane]

9. It's quid pro quo

and I presume illegal. It's espionage for cash.

[Justice]

4. Benedict Arnold was going to betray his country for money

Kushner wanted to be able to borrow from Russian for his fated 5th Ave property and who knows what else. Pesky sanctions were in his way.

[calimary]

6. They buried the lead.

Or lede, as others I knew in the biz also spell it.

The money shot is seven paragraphs from the bottom.

"FBI investigators are examining whether Russians suggested to Kushner or other Trump aides that relaxing economic sanctions would allow Russian banks to offer financing to people with ties to Trump, said the current U.S. law enforcement official."

Add that in with
1) the reports and quotes from both Eric and Donnie Jr. about the family seeing a lot of business action and money galore from the Russians,
2) their father's many bankruptcies that have made US banks stop lending him money, compelling him to turn to Russian (and Russian mob) funding,
3) his continuing to live the high life of an international high-roller and therefore needing tons of cash,
4) his refusal to release his tax returns,
5) additional reports that Jared himself and his family are hundreds of millions of dollars in debt (and they too are used to living the high life),
6) and Jared's attempts to set up that secret back-channel reportedly included meetings with a Russian bank that had sanctions clamped on it,

(among other things)

...well, one can do the math and connect the dots.

Smells kinda smoking-gun-ish to me.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

8. The arrogance of this family is off the charts.

The sense that they can do anything they want, like taking candy from a baby or food stamps from grandma, or play with our taxes or Russia's Oligarchs. It surely is the greatest ripoff in American history.

[Honeycombe8]

7. Why would the Russian bank make a statement about that meeting?

Wouldn't it have been a secret meeting?

[Sanity Claws]

10. Now we have motive