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TRUMP JR. RESPONDS: Donald Trump Jr. Releases Email Exchange Regarding Russian Attorney


The following is via Fox News:

Donald Trump Jr. on Tuesday released what he said was the “entire email chain” of his conversations setting up a disputed meeting with a Russian attorney, showing what appeared to be an offer to provide information that would “incriminate” Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton as “part of Russia and its government’s support for Mr. Trump.”

The email chain — alleged to be between Trump Jr. and publicist Rob Goldstone — occurred in June 2016. Goldstone went on to set up the controversial June 9 meeting with Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya.

“The Crown prosecutor of Russia met with his father Aras this morning and in their meeting offered to provide the Trump campaign with some official documents and information that would incriminate Hillary and her dealing with Russia and would be very useful to your father,” an email identified as being from Goldstone said. It was the first email in the chain released by Trump.

“This is obviously very high level and sensitive information but is part of Russia and its government’s support for Mr. Trump — helped along by Aras and Emin.”

Trump said in a statement on Tuesday he knew “Emin” from helping to organize the Miss Universe pageant in Russia.

Trump replied: “Seems we have some time and if it’s what you say I love it especially later in the summer.”

Veselnitskaya denied in an interview with NBC having “any damaging or sensitive information about Hillary Clinton.”

“It was never my intention to have that,” she said.

Trump has denied any wrongdoing occurred in the meeting, which also included then-campaign chairman Paul Manafort and Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law and senior aide.

“The information they suggested they had about Hillary Clinton I thought was Political Opposition Research,” Trump said in the Tuesday statement. “I first wanted to just have a phone call but when they didn’t work out, they said the woman would be in New York and asked if I would meet. I decided to take the meeting…As Rob Goldstone said just today in the press, the entire meeting was ‘the most insane nonsense I ever heard. And I was actually agitated by it.'”

President Trump, via his outside legal representation, has denied knowing about or attending the meeting.

In the initial June 3 email, Goldstone writes that he could “also send this info to your father via [his assistant] but it is ultra sensitive so wanted to send to you first.”

Most of the rest of the email chain is scheduling minutiae, with Trump trying to arrange a phone call and then working out a suitable meeting time with Goldstone’s contact.

(Source: Fox News)



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