The New York Times Just Revealed a Second Trump Tower Meeting

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Last July, the New York Times was the first to reveal Donald Trump Jr.’s much-scrutinized Trump Tower meeting with a Kremlin emissary who had promised damaging information about Hillary Clinton. Today, the Times followed up with another blockbuster report revealing that Trump Jr. took a second Trump Tower meeting before the election—this time, with an Israeli social media specialist, an emissary of two Arab crown princes, and Erik Prince, the founder of Blackwater, a private military company now called Academi.

“The meetings are the first indication that countries other than Russia may have offered assistance to the Trump campaign in the months before the presidential election.”

The purpose of the meeting was to offer help for Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, and it took place three months before the election, the Times reports. The Israeli social media specialist, Joel Zamel, had drawn up a “multimillion-dollar proposal for a social media manipulation effort,” while the emissary, George Nader, told Trump Jr. that the crown princes of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates were “eager to help” Donald Trump win the 2016 election.

Here are more details from the full report:

LudovicoSpecs on May 19th, 2018 at 22:59 UTC »

Trump Jr. took a second Trump Tower meeting before the election—this time, with an Israeli social media specialist, an emissary of two Arab crown princes, and Erik Prince, the founder of Blackwater,

Erik Prince (brother of Betsy Devos). When they print his name, it should always be followed by (brother of Betsy Devos) so we know how all these connected individuals fit into this corrupt administration.

WingerRules on May 19th, 2018 at 21:06 UTC »

"The meetings, which have not been reported previously, are the first indication that countries other than Russia may have offered assistance to the Trump campaign in the months before the presidential election."

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"By then, a company connected to Mr. Zamel had been working on a proposal for a covert multimillion-dollar online manipulation campaign to help elect Mr. Trump, according to three people involved and a fourth briefed on the effort. The plan involved using thousands of fake social media accounts to promote Mr. Trump’s candidacy on platforms like Facebook." - NYT

That sounds familiar

Also one of the largest news sagas in decades still not being covered by /news

autotldr on May 19th, 2018 at 20:00 UTC »

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 64%. (I'm a bot)

Last July, the New York Times was the first to reveal Donald Trump Jr.'s much-scrutinized Trump Tower meeting with a Kremlin emissary who had promised damaging information about Hillary Clinton.

Today, the Times followed up with another blockbuster report revealing that Trump Jr. took a second Trump Tower meeting before the election-this time, with an Israeli social media specialist, an emissary of two Arab crown princes, and Erik Prince, the founder of Blackwater, a private military company now called Academi.

Donald Trump Jr. responded approvingly, according to a person with knowledge of the meeting, and after those initial offers of help, Mr. Nader was quickly embraced as a close ally by Trump campaign advisers-meeting frequently with Jared Kushner, Mr. Trump's son-in-law, and Michael T. Flynn, who became the president's first national security adviser.

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