Five key facts
By Greg Sargent
July 11 at 1:00 PM
... Trump Jr. initially refused to disclose the reason for this meeting ... Trump Jr. carefully dissembled about what he knew about the Russian lawyer’s identity ... Trump Jr. eagerly accepted proffered help from a foreign government that was trying to help his father win the U.S. presidential election ... Today’s news shows that ... the Trump campaign ... was prepared to welcome assistance from the Russian government, after having been told that it was actively trying to swing the election to Trump. Remember, at the meeting were Trump Jr., Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner and Trump’s campaign chair at the moment, Paul Manafort ... Top congressional Republicans were told that Russia was trying to tip the election to Trump and argued against doing something public about it. ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2017/07/11/five-key-facts-about-donald-trump-jr-s-just-released-explosive-email-exchange/?utm_term=.5eeec84b32cd
