Exclusive: Senate investigators told Trump Jr.'s mysterious calls weren't with his father
Source: CNN
Senate investigators have obtained new information showing Donald Trump Jr.'s mysterious phone calls ahead of the 2016 Trump Tower meeting were not with his father, three sources with knowledge of the matter told CNN.
Records provided to the Senate Intelligence Committee show the calls were between Trump Jr. and two of his business associates, the sources said, and appear to contradict Democrats' long-held suspicions that the blocked number was from then-candidate Donald Trump.
The information came to light recently and could answer one of the key questions over the meeting Trump's eldest son set up to get Russian dirt on the Clinton campaign. Trump Jr.'s phone calls involving blocked numbers -- meaning the numbers are private and do not appear in the phone records -- have been a lingering issue as investigators have probed the meeting and whether Trump himself had advance knowledge through any means that his son, son-in-law Jared Kushner and then-campaign chair Paul Manafort met with a Russian lawyer promising dirt on Hillary Clinton.
Trump Jr.'s phone records included calls with two blocked phone numbers the same day he exchanged calls with Russian pop star Emin Agalarov, the son of a Russian oligarch who spearheaded the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting with Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya. The calls came three days before the Trump Tower meeting, and an additional call with a private number occurred several hours after the meeting.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/31/politics/senate-investigators-blocked-phone-calls-not-father-trump/index.html
So, what will Trump do if Jr. has to take the fall?
Response to brooklynite (Original post)
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procon
(15,805 posts)to give himself cover with plausible deniability?
pnwmom
(108,980 posts)Last edited Thu Jan 31, 2019, 08:00 PM - Edit history (1)
from blocked phones that belonged to other people.
https://theweek.com/speedreads/809931/mueller-reportedly-taking-close-look-trumps-latenight-phone-calls-roger-stone
Stone told the Post that Trump would ring him late at night because he "gets almost no sleep," and would call from blocked numbers, sometimes borrowing the phones of friends and aides. "When Donald Trump calls you, he does most of the talking," Stone said. "You do most of the listening."
AGREE
SayItLoud
(1,702 posts)sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)DallasNE
(7,403 posts)Said it came roughly two hours after the meeting. Here they say it came several hours after the meeting. So, which is it and does it matter.
Nevermypresident
(781 posts)the meeting. Hope there are tapes!!!
wishstar
(5,270 posts)the proximity of the meeting to Trump's office and the fact that he knew everyone who was coming and going in the proximity of his office suite makes it very unlikely he didn't know about the Trump Tower meeting with Russians.
jls4561
(1,257 posts)Set up by Jared?
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,014 posts)Marcuse
(7,487 posts)lark
(23,105 posts)Then it's off to the courts and will SCOTUS stand by their man or by the Constitution?