Donald Trump Jr. released an email chain on Tuesday that shows he agreed to meet with a Russian lawyer last June in order to obtain damaging …
Jul 20, 2017 · The lawyer has been publicly identified, and the identity of the second person mentioned in the email chain has since been established, even though Donald Trump Jr. did not refer to a second ...
Jul 11, 2017 · June 9, 2016. Donald Trump Jr. meets with Russian lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya, who has ties to the Kremlin, at Trump Tower. Campaign chairman Paul Manafort and Mr. Trump's son-in-law, Jared ...
Jul 09, 2017 · President Donald Trump’s eldest son and his son-in-law Jared Kushner met with a Russian lawyer with connections to the Kremlin during the presidential campaign, it was reported Saturday. The New ...
Apr 18, 2019 · Once it became clear the meeting between Donald Trump Jr. and a Russian lawyer would become public knowledge, senior aides scrambled to respond. IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience ...
A meeting took place at Trump Tower in New York City on June 9, 2016, between three senior members of the 2016 Trump campaign – Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner, and Paul Manafort – and at least five other people, including Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya.
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Goldstone emails Trump Jr. about setting up a meeting with a “Russian government lawyer” who is said to have damaging information about Clinton.
Goldstone emails Trump Jr. to settle on a time of the meeting, scheduled for the next day. Trump Jr. replies, saying Manafort and Kushner will also attend, and then forwards the email exchange to them.
2:22 p.m.: Trump tweets: “Obama just endorsed Crooked Hillary. He wants four more years of Obama—but nobody else does!”
President Donald Trump defended his son for the first time on Tuesday July 11 , having by White House principal deputy press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders read a statement on his behalf on that day’s off-camera briefing.
Anatoli Samachornov8. Ike Kaveladze. Donald Trump Jr. met with the Russian attorney, Natalia Veselnitskaya, but said in his statement to ABC News, “I was not told her name prior to the meeting.”.
The Associated Press reported on July 14 that Rinat Akhmetshin, a lobbyist who has been reported to have ties to Russian intelligence agencies, attended the meeting, stating that Akhmetshin confirmed his presence at the June 9, 2016, meeting in Trump Tower. The AP stated that Akhmetshin dismissed claims that he has ties to Russian intelligence as ...
Trump Jr. might find important,” Goldstone said in the statement. Emin Agalarov is a singer from Azerbaijan who is the son of a wealthy businessman.
In that email Goldstone appears to refer to one of his clients, Emin Agalarov, who in addition to being a pop singer is the son of a wealthy businessman, Aras Agalarov. "Emin just called and asked me to contact you with something very interesting," Goldstone wrote, according to a screen shot.
Donald Trump Jr. meets with Russian lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya, who has ties to the Kremlin, at Trump Tower. Campaign chairman Paul Manafort and Mr. Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, also attend the meeting. Veselnitskaya told NBC News that she " never had any damaging or sensitive information about Hillary Clinton ," ...
arranged to meet with Veselnitskaya during the presidential campaign, two weeks after Donald Trump clinched the Republican nomination, on June 9, 2016 at Trump Tower, and that Manafort and Kushner also attended the meeting. Trump Jr. releases this statement:
Rob Goldstone, a British-born music publicist and former tabloid reporter, emails Trump Jr. saying that Emin Agalarov, an Azerbaijani Moscow-based singer and businessman Trump Jr. knew from the 2013 Miss Universe pageant in Moscow, had just called Goldstone "with something very interesting."
A few days after the election, Russia's deputy foreign minister, Sergei Ryabkov, is quoted as telling the Interfax news agency that "there were contacts" with influential people connected to Mr. Trump. But his spokeswoman, Hope Hicks, denies that ever happened. "It never happened," she said, according to NBC News. "There was no communication between the campaign and any foreign entity during the campaign," a statement that was later proved wrong .
Swimmer drops out of Paralympics after being denied care assistant. NASA beams back spectacular images of Jupiter and Ganymede. "Aras" is Emin Agalarov's father, a Russian billionaire with apparent connections to the Kremlin. Aras Agalarov was responsible for bringing Trump's Miss Universe pageant to Moscow in 2013.
Kellyanne Conway is asked in an interview on CBS's "Face the Nation" if anyone involved in Mr. Trump's campaign have any contact with Russians trying to interfere in the U.S. presidential election. Conway says, "Absolutely not. And I discussed that with the president-elect just last night.
Aras Agalarov was responsible for bringing Trump's Miss Universe pageant to Moscow in 2013. Goldstone offers in his email to send the information to Mr. Trump, "but it is ultra sensitive so wanted to send to you first," he wrote to Trump Jr.
President Donald Trump’s eldest son and his son-in-law Jared Kushner met with a Russian lawyer with connections to the Kremlin during the presidential campaign, it was reported Saturday.
Kushner attorney Jamie Gorelick confirmed the meeting but called it brief and said he was asked to attend by Trump Jr. Gorelick said that Kushner left the meeting and other meetings off of a national security questionnaire, the SF-86, that was filed prematurely, and has since provided supplemental information including about ...
U.S. intelligence agencies have concluded that Russia was behind a covert plan to try and interfere in the presidential election to try and help Trump win. Russia has repeatedly denied the claims. Trump and other Republicans have claimed the alleged meddling did not affect the election’s outcome.
Mueller said in his report that investigators did not believe they could prove Trump Jr. acted "willfully" when he possibly violated campaign finance law.
According to Mueller's report, Trump was aware of the existence of emails related to the Trump Tower meeting by June 2017.
In July 2017, senior White House aide Hope Hicks informed the president that The New York Times planned to publish a story about the meeting, Mueller wrote, and Trump became involved in the effort to craft a response.
According to the emails that Donald Trump Jr.
Trump has maintained in his more recent statements that he was interested in attending the meeting because “the information they suggested they had about Hillary Clinton I thought was Political Opposition Research,” as he said in a statement released on Twitter Tuesday.
In Trump’s first two statements about the meeting, he said that he “asked Jared and Paul to stop by” and then “I asked Jared and Paul to attend but told them nothing of the substance,” respectively.
While he did attend, the developing narrative around the meeting has Kushner leaving not long after it started.
Trump has described the meeting several times in his multiple statements.
It remains unclear whom Goldstone was referring to in the initial email in the email chain released by Trump when he wrote, "The Crown prosecutor of Russia met with [Aras Agalarov] this morning and in their meeting offered to provide the Trump campaign with some official documents and information that would incriminate Hillary."
The email chain between Goldstone and Trump started with the premise that “the Crown prosecutor of Russia met with his father Aras [Agalarov] this morning and in their meeting offered to provide the Trump campaign with some official documents and information.”
The Times followed up with the revelation that Junior attended the meeting because he was promised damaging information on his father's opponent, Hillary Clinton, in advance. So it wasn't just about adoption, Don?
Michael Flynn was fired for an extracurricular conversation with Kislyak, while Attorney General Jeff Sessions also appeared to lie about having met with the ambassador during his confirmation hearings. That, like Kushner's conspicuous omissions, would seem to constitute a felony, but nothing has come of it.
In a New York Times profile that featured the presidential scion struggling to find a comfortable stump to sit on, Don Jr. also denied participating in any campaign-related meetings with Russians:
Counselor to the president Kellyanne Conway has never been a good source for information. Back in December, as we learned more about the extent of Russian interference in the election, Face the Nation 's John Dickerson asked Conway outright if there was any contact during the campaign between members of the Trump campaign and Russian officials:
When first asked about the meeting, Donald Trump Jr. issued a statement saying the meeting was primarily about the adoption of Russian children.
Mr. Trump defended the meeting in a tweet, saying “Most politicians would have gone to a meeting like the one Don jr attended in order to get info on an opponent. That's politics!” About a week earlier, emails between Donald Trump Jr. and Rob Goldstone, a British music producer and publicist who helped broker the gathering, had come to light.
Jay Sekulow, one of the president’s lawyers, said of the initial statement Donald Trump Jr. released about the meeting: “I wasn’t involved in the statement drafting at all, nor was the president.”
Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the White House press secretary: “The president weighed in, as any father would, based on the limited information that he had. He certainly didn’t dictate.”
John M. Dowd and Mr. Sekulow, the president’s lawyers at the time: “The President dictated a short but accurate response to The New York Times article on behalf of his son, Donald Trump Jr.”
In his Sunday tweet, Trump reiterated that he had no advance knowledge of the meeting.