Meeting between Trump Jr. and Russian lawyer was requested by Russian pop star whose family...

[DonViejo]

Source: The Washington Post



Meeting between Trump Jr. and Russian lawyer was requested by Russian pop star whose family is close to Putin

By Rosalind S. Helderman and Tom Hamburger July 10 at 2:15 PM

A meeting between Donald Trump Jr. and a Russian lawyer was set up at the request of Emin Agalarov, a Russian pop star whose Kremlin-connected family has done business with President Trump in the past, according to the person who arranged the meeting.

Rob Goldstone, a music publicist who represents Agalarov, confirmed on Monday that he requested the Trump Tower meeting at Agalarov’s request. Emin Agalarov and his father, Aras Agalarov, a wealthy Moscow real estate developer, helped sponsor the Trump-owned Miss Universe pageant in Russia in 2013.

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Goldstone had previously told The Washington Post that he set up and attended the meeting for the lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya, so that she could discuss the adoption of Russian children by Americans.

In a new statement, Goldstone confirmed what Trump Jr. himself revealed Sunday: That he enticed the then-Republican candidate’s son by indicating that Veselnitskaya could provide damaging information about Democrats. “The lawyer had apparently stated she had some information regarding illegal campaign contributions to the DNC which she believed Mr. Trump Jr. might find important,” he said.




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[SunSeeker]

1. Uday got played. Bigly. nt

[Eliot Rosewater]

2. GOP is already laying the framework for "collusion is OK"

Which it is now if they are in charge.

We have to look beyond all this pretty soon, because the GOP isnt going to do anything, AT ALL, about any of it.

How do we prevent Trump White House and Putin from stealing more elections in 2018?

[Catmusicfan]

4. That's because 1/3 to 1/2 of them are involved in this.

[Catmusicfan]

3. If this was a fiction book it would get panned as being unbelievable

[Leghorn21]

5. Ain't this Goldstone fella in a heap o' trouble for speaking out about his hand in this?? Seems

as if this puts him in a rather dicey position, but then again, I know so little about espionage and clandestine meetings, treason, assassination, and election hacking.

(but yeah, I'm learnin, everrrr so slowly)

[yallerdawg]

6. Guess who is in the Russian pop star's video?

At the end, a familiar TV character makes appearance:

[riversedge]

7. Read that last part again: the claims of potentially helpful information were a pretext for the me

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Donny is in big trouble!





Donald Trump Jr.’s stunning admission to the New York Times


https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/07/09/donald-trump-jr-s-stunningly-incriminating-statement-to-the-new-york-times/?tid=sm_fb&utm_term=.ec778dc5e116



By Callum Borchers July 9 at 6:14 PM
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Paul Manafort, the campaign’s chairman at the time, and Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law and adviser, also attended.
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He said she then turned the conversation to adoption of Russian children and the Magnitsky Act, an American law that blacklists suspected Russian human rights abusers. The law so enraged President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia that he retaliated by halting American adoptions of Russian children.

“It became clear to me that this was the true agenda all along and that the claims of potentially helpful information were a pretext for the meeting,” Mr. Trump said.

Read that last part again: “the claims of potentially helpful information were a pretext for the meeting.”

Trump Jr. confirmed that he went into the meeting expecting to receive information from the Russian lawyer that could hurt Clinton. That is a breathtaking admission.

The rest of Trump Jr.’s statement is an attempt to minimize the value of what the lawyer actually told him. The outcome of the meeting and its effect on the presidential race is important, of course, yet it is kind of beside the point.