Pundits missing Trump Jr., Manafort, and Kushner were blackmailable since June, 2016

We heard Yates testify that she warned the Trump White House on January 26th, 2017, that their National Security Director, Michael Flynn, was blackmailable by the Russians since his misleading the WH and the nation on his discussions of sanctions in his transition phone call with Russia leadership. The short of it was that Flynn, in December, had a phone conversation with a Russian diplomat in which U.S. sanctions against Russia were discussed and subsequent to that conversation, Flynn represented sanctions were NOT discussed. At all times when he made these false representations, the Russians knew that his misrepresentations were false. This makes/made Flynn blackmailable---leverageable, by the Russians.

Over the last three days, we learned, via Trump Jr himself, that he, Manafort, and Kushner held a meeting in June, 2016, with a Russian lawyer that he held because he believed the lawyer was with the Russian government and was going to give them opposition research on their opposing candidate, who is a United States citizen.

Trump and numerous of his representatives have repeatedly asserted that the Trump campaign had NO collusion with Russia in interfering with the 2016 Presidential election campaign. At all times when each of these representations were made, Russia and the Trump campaign knew that the campaign had taken the bait of the June meeting. This is the situational equivalent of Flynn's exposure, making Trump Jr. and Kushner, especially--because they have been "retained" by the President through the transition and had to submit sworn security clearance applications accounting for interactions with foreign entities, especially with Russians.

On their applications, both men blanketly omitted all of there interactions with Russians, including the June meeting which they unequivocally intended to be a meeting with a Russian government representative to obtain secret information about a U.S. citizen and presidential candidate. The applications very clearly warn that they can be prosecuted for felonies for failing to fully answer the prompts on the application. Thus, the Russians also knew, since June, that either men had substantive exposure and risk of criminal prosecution if, for example, that June meeting was exposed.

Thus, just as with Flynn, we--the citizens of the United States, should expect that the intelligence community and the U.S. Attorney General acknowledge the risk of having these two men having, inter alia, security clearances, having access to national secrets, having the ability to injure our nation (or the ability to have already injured our nation), and the risk inherent with not be able to trust that either man is putting the nation before his own interests, especially their interest in self-preservation.

Both men are blackmailable just as Flynn was blackmailable by the Russians and are clear risks that should be removed from their positions and access, however informal, in as complete a fashion as can be accomplished, immediately--not two weeks later.

@ 7 12 2017