Notes from meeting with Russians said not to be damaging to Trump family

[DonViejo]

By JOSH DAWSEY and ALI WATKINS 09/07/2017 06:46 PM EDT

Notes from former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort on a meeting he attended last year with a Russian lobbyist and Donald Trump Jr. are not seen as damaging to the Trump family or campaign officials, according to government officials and others who have looked at the notes.

The Trump Tower meeting has come under scrutiny because Trump Jr. wrote in an email that he agreed to the encounter in order to find “dirt” on Hillary Clinton, and it has since become a focus for special counsel Robert Mueller. Mueller has sought to interview White House officials about the fallout, and the Russian lobbyist has testified in front of a grand jury.

The notes from the meeting do not contain any damaging information about Clinton or references to promises of damaging information about her, nor do they indicate that officials on the campaign were promising favors or seeking them in return for money, the people who’ve seen them said.

According to these people, the notes have been with Senate officials for weeks and have been reviewed by a number of people on Capitol Hill. Also in attendance at the June 2016 meeting in New York were a Russian lawyer, a Russian businessman and other Trump campaign officials, including Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law.

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http://www.politico.com/story/2017/09/07/russian-meeting-notes-not-damaging-to-trump-family-242464?lo=ap_b1

[tanyev]

1. Well, of course not.

At this point we could have a copy of a check to Trump's campaign personally signed by Putin with "For lifting of sanctions, thx" written in the memo field and no Republican would do anything about it.

[PubliusEnigma]

3. So, Manafort produced notes saying he did nothing illegal? Imagine that!

[Iliyah]

4. Junior already confirmed that the meeting was about finding dirt

on HRC from a foreign country.

[brush]

5. Manafort is a smart cookie, been around the world and back a few times dealing with...

other smart cookies like Putin and the like—certainly actors smarter than the likes of naive, political rookie trump Jr.

He monitored Junior's meeting and of course he didn't put anything damaging in his notes. He's too smart for that.

[Cirque du So-What]

6. In related news...

The mobster had presence of mind to keep his mouth shut when he became suspicious of leading questions from an associate who had recently been picked up by the FBI.