Within 4 days of the Trump Tower meeting being leaked to the media, Mueller’s FBI investigators interviewed a *key* witness who 100% backed up the account of @DonaldJTrumpJr & other participants
No collusion or info exchanged, lasted a few mins, mostly about adoptions 🚨
THREAD
No collusion or info exchanged, lasted a few mins, mostly about adoptions 🚨
THREAD
The Trump Tower meeting was leaked on Jul 8 2017 & set off a media firestorm about potential “Collusion”. The media narrative was allowed to fester in the mind of the public thru 2017, 2018 (and the midterms), lasting until the 2019 Mueller report release
nytimes.com/2017/07/08/us/…
nytimes.com/2017/07/08/us/…
Less than *four days* later, Mueller’s FBI investigators knocked on the door of ANATOLI SAMOCHORNOV, the translator in the meeting (& an American citizen, who contracted for the State Dept. for years & whose wife worked there during Hillary’s time) 
N.B. Here’s a May 2018 thread on Samochornov for more background on him:
Samochornov gave the agents a full list of attendees, the topics discussed during a brief 20 minutes by the “Russians” (mainly the Magnitsky act/adoptions), that Jared Kushner left the meeting early and that Paul Manafort was fiddling with his cell phone he was so bored by it!
“There was no discussion of the 2016 United States presidential election or Collusion between the Russian government and the Trump campaign”
“There was no smoking gun...there was not a discussion about “dirt” on Hillary Clinton...did not think Hillary Clinton was mentioned by name...Veselnitskaya did not offer any materials during the meeting and no papers wree exchanged... additionally there was no follow-up”
“Samochornov was not particularly fond of @DonaldJTrumpJr but stated [his] account of the meeting...was accurate. [He] concurred with [Trump’s] accounts of the meeting. “They” were telling the truth...would have contacted FBI if he thought the meeting was nefarious” 🚨👀
Of course, Mueller said nothing about the avalanche of misleading media reporting claiming this was evidence of Collusion, and even investigated the Trump campaign for “Obstruction” in their response to media enquiries about something Mueller KNEW was a lie
That @DonaldJTrumpJr’s account of the Trump Tower meeting was independently corroborated within a few days was not mentioned in the Mueller dossier. Of course it wasn’t
Despite relying on Samochornov’s account for key facts, the “no smoking gun” statement from someone “not fond” of Trump & linked to Hillary’s State Dept. is not included in Mueller’s innuendo-laden account of the meeting
Just compare Mueller dossier to FBI agents interview notes
Just compare Mueller dossier to FBI agents interview notes
SUMMARY
—Mueller could have shut down fake news about the Trump Tower meeting almost immediately. His office did so with other false reports (e.g BuzzFeed & Michael Cohen) but left this hanging for years
—Mueller dossier lacks key facts & context & is misleading. Again!
/ENDS
—Mueller could have shut down fake news about the Trump Tower meeting almost immediately. His office did so with other false reports (e.g BuzzFeed & Michael Cohen) but left this hanging for years
—Mueller dossier lacks key facts & context & is misleading. Again!
/ENDS
Source: vault.fbi.gov/special-counse… (Part 4; Pages 50-57, FBI 302 of Samochornov)
Compare this thread to Collusion Hoax reporters in 2018. No correction. No apology. Just more doubling down
Great points by @Techno_Fog
Thanks to @Heminator for writing this up (I had no involvement in the article in case you’re wondering - no collusion here!)
