Remember that meeting in June of 2016 between Donald Trump Jr., other members of the Trump team – most notably Paul Manafort – and the Russian woman who supposedly had dirt on Hillary Clinton? Remember the ominous promises that this was the “smoking gun” that would take Trump to the cleaners?
Well, congratulations on your memory. But now you can forget it.
Excerpted from Josh Dawsey and Ali Watkins’ article at thehill.com:
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.
My while driving yesterday, my wife put on the radio and we listened to Frank Sinatra’s classic version of the song “High Hopes” – which, in a very enjoyable way, assures us that determination and persistence pay off in the end.
Lucky Mr. Sinatra wasn’t singing about the claim that Russia colluded with Donald Trump in last year’s election, because then the song would have no ending.
That is because, after over a year of efforts by Democrats and their shamelessly complicit pals in mainstream media, they have yet to turn up any actual evidence that such collusion took place. In point of fact, there is far more evidence that Hillary Clinton and her people were in cahoots with Russia than Donald Trump.
If our media were genuinely interested in pursuing a real scandal, they would be pursuing the huge – and growing – awan scandal.
But they are not genuinely interested in pursuing a real scandal. They are genuinely interested in pursuing the current President. So, at least as of now, you can forget that.
You can, however, laugh derisively every time one of these so-called “journalists” wonders why media are trusted by fewer and fewer people.
I know I do.
