They All Knew It Was A Hoax...

by Undercover Huber via Threadreader

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 Donald Trump Jr & other participants

No collusion or info exchanged, lasted a few mins, mostly about adoptions 🚨

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

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 Donald Trump Jr 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 Donald Trump Jr’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

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

Source: (Part 4; Pages 50-57, FBI 302 of Samochornov)

Also worth noting that @CNN and @BuzzFeed originally filed the lawsuit that got these records released under FOIA and they’ve had them for weeks. Have they done any reporting on this? Of course not. Zip.

Compare this thread to Collusion Hoax reporters in 2018.
No correction. No apology. Just more doubling down

Great points by @Techno_Fog