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Here's what we now know: on June 9th, 2016, Putin tried to get his kompromat ("blackmail file") on Clinton to Trump through an intermediary.
(2) What we don't know is if Don received the stolen property or told his dad—adding him to a criminal conspiracy with Kushner and Manafort.
(3) We can further surmise whoever (Manafort or Kushner) left after ten minutes may have done so because they realized a crime might occur.
(4) As to whether the party that fled was Kushner or Manafort, you decide for yourself which of the two you think would shrink from a crime.
(5) But we know a) Trump's son stayed; b) he received intel on Clinton; c) he seems to have hid the meeting from everyone but maybe his dad.
(6) Let's be clear: the man who set up the June 9 meeting with Trump's top aides, Aras Agalarov, had received the Order of Honor from Putin.
(7) A man that loyal to Russia—and specifically Putin—was not "freelancing" with Clinton kompromat in the middle of the American election.
(8) So the June 9, 2016 meeting at Trump Tower was a Trump-Putin meeting via proxies: Agalarov, Veselnitskaya, Trump Jr., Kushner, Manafort.
(9) Trump Sr. being IN TRUMP TOWER that day; what he was DOING there that day; the speech he WROTE that day suggest he KNEW of the meeting.
(10) Investigators must now suspect the June 9, 2016 meeting was a Trump-Putin meeting BOTH men knew about and sent their proxies to attend.
(11) Based on this new NYT story, if you're a journalist reporting on anything but this topic today you're missing the story of the century.
(12) And if you're a Republican thinking you can haughtily sniff at this story and walk away, you may want to hold you tongue a bit longer.
(13) And for god's sake, if you actually believe Putin sent an attorney with "vague, ambiguous, meaningless" Clinton kompromat you're loony.
(14) In fact, it seems whatever Natalia Veselnitskaya said in that room was SO "too hot to handle" it chased either Kushner or Manafort out.