45 hours in Russia is longer than one thinks, and is interesting in Trump’s lies rather than the Steele dossier’s potentially confabulated story of defiling the Presidential suite at the Ritz-Carlton Moscow.
There is still a there, there.
Because Trump, even as he lies most of the time that he’s not exaggerating, spent far too much time on constructing counter-narratives that whatever kompromat exists, it is less about even finding it as it unravels any pretense that 45* lacks criminality.
GOP stupidity in leaking the Comey memos is remarkable in how it’s never been about the content of their insurgency, but that reactionary messages get served up much so easily like their prior manipulation of memo messaging by the House Intel committee.
False statements can demonstrate, “consciousness of guilt,”
The flight. Records obtained by POLITICO from the Federal Aviation Administration show that Trump's jet landed in Moscow on the afternoon of Friday, November 8, 2013, and took off on Sunday.
His arrival on Friday is confirmed by a number of images, and social media from that date, showing Trump hanging out late in the city.
Bodyguard's testimony. Trump's bodyguard Keith Schiller testified before Congress on November last year that during the 2013 trip a Russian associate offered sending prostitutes to Trump's hotel room, according to sources who attended the hearing and spoke anonymously to NBC.
President Donald Trump twice gave James Comey an alibi for why a salacious report about the 2013 Miss Universe pageant in Moscow couldn’t be true: He never even spent the night in Russia during that trip, Trump told the former FBI director, according to Comey’s memos about the conversations.
Yet the broad timeline of Trump’s stay, stretching from Friday, Nov. 8, 2013, through the following Sunday morning, has been widely reported. And it’s substantiated by social media posts that show he slept in Moscow the night before the Miss Universe contest.
Now, flight records obtained by Bloomberg provide fresh details. Combined with existing accounts and Trump’s own social-media posts, they capture two days that, nearly five years later, loom large in the controversy engulfing the White House and at the heart of the Comey memos, which the Justice Department turned over last week to Congress.
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