Buried From Trump Tower Meeting: Translator Telling FBI 'No Collusion'
Just days after news of the infamous Trump Tower meeting drew the attention of Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation,
the translator present told the FBI there was no talk of collusion between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin, according to recently released documents.
Anatoli Samochornov, translator, quoted in FBI memo: "
There was no discussion of the 2016 United States presidential election or Collusion between the Russian government and the Trump campaign.”
This exculpatory evidence – which backed accounts of Donald Trump Jr. and other campaign officials in attendance –
was not mentioned in Special Counsel Mueller’s final report two years later. And the silence in the interim occurred as sinister theorizing on cable TV and in the press helped shape a public impression of the June 9, 2016 meeting as central to collusion.
The new documents record that on July 12, 2017, four days after the New York Times
first disclosed the meeting, relying on government leaks, the FBI interviewed Anatoli Samochornov, a freelance translator with long ties to the U.S. government who had been engaged by the Russian side. Elaborating the day after its initial report, the Times used more leaks to
report that Trump Jr. had agreed to the meeting because he was told that a Russian lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya, would provide damaging information on Hillary Clinton.
https://www.realclearinvestigations...ranslators_avowal_of_no_collusion_122774.html
