The Trump Russia Cover-Up Has Landed

It’s official, the Trump Russia cover up has been revealed by intrepid journalists at The Washington Post.

Tonight’s report that President Trump was allowed to dictate Donald Trump Jr.’s initial response to the meeting his son arranged with Russian agents, casts an entirely different light on the White House response to the New York Times’ bombshell reporting earlier this month.

Longtime Republican operative Rick Wilson told MSNBC that it indicates “consciousness of guilt” by the President.

Donald Trump Jr. met with a team Russian agents in June 2016.

But when the New York Times discovered the meeting this June, Trump Jr. issued a response found to be massively misleading, claiming that no campaign issues were raised, that it was just a meeting about adoptions, and that he didn’t know the names of whom he would be meeting.

Trump Jr.’s statement required numerous revisions — including a damning response saying that dirt on Clinton was the pretext for the meeting — until the President’s son eventually released the smoking emails, thereby proving that the meeting was about the campaign and about sanctions.

A month before news about Donald Trump Jr.’s meeting emerged, I exclusively reported that Trump’s personal lawyer Michael Cohen had the kind of high-level Kremlin contacts to the Agalarov family which he specifically denied this past January after Buzzfeed released the Steele dossier.

The Democratic Coalition’s c0-founder Scott Dworkin discovered a cache of 2013 photos from Las Vegas.

Cohen blocked me on Twitter following that report, and hired an attorney himself just one week later.

Just one month later, the photos Dworkin uncovered led to another exclusive report proving that Donald Trump personally knew Rob Goldstone — the trusted agent who set up the meeting with his son — because they had previously met in Las Vegas.

“This is just the tip of the Russia collusion scandal’s iceberg, and it’s already crippling Trump’s entire agenda,” says Scott Dworkin about today’s developments.

“One thing we know, it will only get worse.”

After those two exclusive reports, Donald Trump Jr. revealed a set of smoking gun emails

They showed conclusively that the Agalarovs’ publicist who Rob Goldstone has direct contact with the elder Trump’s private secretary.

That’s a good as a direct link to Trump, since he doesn’t manage an email account of his own.

Later, CNN found a video which confirmed The Stern Facts.

President Trump also personally knows Aras Agalarov, the Kremlin-linked oligarch — and his son Emin the musician — who set up the meeting, which is a relationship I reported last November in HuffPost just three days after the election as one of 10 key links to Putin from the Democratic Coalition’s Dworkin Report

That report ultimately grew to include 30 years of ties between then-President elect Trump and Russia.

The Agalarov family’s top lieutenant Ike Kaveladze — accused by the federal government of masterminding a $1.4 billion dollar money laundering scheme — was also present at the Las Vegas meetings to negotiate with the Trump Organization.

What did the President know and when did he know it?

President Trump hasn’t directly commented upon his son’s meeting.

He hasn’t tweeted a defense of his son either.

“I do want to be clear,” Trump’s lawyer Jay Sekulow lied to NBC when the story first broke, “the president was not involved in the drafting of the statement”

President Trump’s legal team put out statements calling the meeting between Trump Jr. and a team of Russian agents linked to the oligarch who brought Miss Universe to Moscow a “set up.”

Mark Corallo, the now-former spokesman for Trump’s former lawyer Mark Kasowitz released a statement implying that the President found out about the infamous meeting through news reports.

“We have learned from both our own investigation and public reports that the participants in the meeting misrepresented who they were and who they worked for,” Mark Corallo, spokesperson for Trump’s outside counsel, said in a statement released a few hours after the original New York Times story published.

Politico reported that Corallo resigned because he felt that he was being lied to.

While these relationships do not by themselves confirm that Donald Trump knew about or attended the June 2016 meeting looking for kompromat from Russia, they strongly indicate that he could’ve known about the meeting.

Tonight’s news dramatically increases the chances that President Trump both knew about his son’s meeting.

Why else would he take his son’s statement out of the hands of defense lawyers and publicists, and dictate the extremely misleading response himself?

It truly makes one wonder if Yulia Alferova — the Agalarov’s employee who ran Miss Universe 2013 —really did know anything specific in early 2014 when she Tweeted that Donald Trump “will be a great President!” and that “We’ll support you from Russia.”