I included a chunk below (that still doesn't have the key detail I was searching for), but Natalia was "Persona non grata" for awhile - that is, her visa would not clear in any ordinary way. This is why Loretta Lynch had to approve it. And also why it would immediately count as "Colluding with Russia". It isn't that she's Russian - it's that she's on the 'agents' list.
Former MI6 spy Christopher Steele was simultaneously working for Fusion GPS where he was researching Russian collusion, and the FBI, where he was presenting his faux evidence. Meanwhile, Fusion had some interesting Russian connections of their own. Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya (from the infamous “Trump Tower” meeting with Donald Trump Jr.) was working with Fusion to defend the firm Prevezon, which had been accused of laundering money for the Russian government. At least one person worked on the Prevezon case and also aided Steele with his dossier, a man named Ed Baumgartner.
It appears as if Veselnitskaya’s meeting with Trump Jr. was just to give the mere appearance of Russian collusion – as evidenced by the fact that she met with Fusion GPS founder Glenn Simpson the day of, and day after the Trump Tower meeting. Simpson claims the two never discussed the meeting, but are we to really believe he was helping Steele “prove” Russian collusion while working with a Russian who just met with Trump’s son, and this meeting didn’t come up in conversation?
Even more suspicious, during the Trump Tower meeting, Veselnitskaya was accompanied by translator Anatoli Samochornov, who was previously an interpreter for Hillary Clinton, John Kerry and Barack Obama.
And then there’s who helped organize the meeting; publicist Rob Goldstone at the request of Aras and Emin Agalarov, a father and son duo who knew Trump through the Miss Universe pageants. It was during a 2013 Moscow trip for those pageants that Trump would stay at a Ritz-Carlton (as did the Agalarovs), which would be the location where the fictitious “golden showers” story in Christopher Steele’s dossier allegedly occurred. It’s thus highly likely that the “golden showers” lie originated with the Agalarovs.
I read Anatoli Samochornov's testimony before congress from the releases yesterday, its suspect as fuck. They are sure to ask him to state that he has never spoken to Glenn Simpson related to Fusion GPS work, and when he gives the answer they are seeking, he is told "Thank you. I appreciate that." As in, "good doggy, say what we told you to say."
I included a chunk below (that still doesn't have the key detail I was searching for), but Natalia was "Persona non grata" for awhile - that is, her visa would not clear in any ordinary way. This is why Loretta Lynch had to approve it. And also why it would immediately count as "Colluding with Russia". It isn't that she's Russian - it's that she's on the 'agents' list.
Bongino's Spygate exerpt
I read Anatoli Samochornov's testimony before congress from the releases yesterday, its suspect as fuck. They are sure to ask him to state that he has never spoken to Glenn Simpson related to Fusion GPS work, and when he gives the answer they are seeking, he is told "Thank you. I appreciate that." As in, "good doggy, say what we told you to say."