Exclusive: Senate investigators told Trump Jr.'s mysterious calls weren't with his father

[brooklynite]

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

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So, what will Trump do if Jr. has to take the fall?

[procon]

2. Whose to say that Trump wasn't sitting there listening

to give himself cover with plausible deniability?

[pnwmom]

3. I don't think this rules out Trump because Roger Stone says Trump called HIM

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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."

[bluestarone]

6. YEP

AGREE

[SayItLoud]

9. Kinda like someone on speed does all the talking....there's a METH-od to his madness...nt

[sarcasmo]

4. Dolt 45 will make Junior take the hit.

[DallasNE]

5. Earlier Reporting On The After Phone Call

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]

7. I've heard (speculation) that the conman was on speaker phone during

the meeting. Hope there are tapes!!!

[wishstar]

8. People familiar with Trump Tower have said no way Trump didn't know about the meeting

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]

10. Direct line to Vladimir?

Set up by Jared?

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

11. His Ruskie rubles source then

[Marcuse]

12. Sez who?

[lark]

13. If Don Jr is indicted, he will immediately pardon him.

Then it's off to the courts and will SCOTUS stand by their man or by the Constitution?