Donald
Trump Jr posts emails of Russian offer of
material on Clinton: 'I love it'
President’s son releases emails apparently to
pre-empt NY Times publication
Emails show Rob Goldstone telling of ‘high level
and sensitive information’
By David Smith
July 11,
2017 "Information
Clearing House"
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Donald Trump Jr has been forced to release
damning emails that show he welcomed what he was
told was a Russian government attempt to harm
Hillary Clinton’s election campaign.
The emails show music promoter Rob Goldstone
telling the future US president’s son that “the
crown prosecutor of Russia” had offered “to
provide the Trump campaign with some official
documents and information that would incriminate
Hillary and her dealings with
Russia and would be very useful to your
father”.
Goldstone adds: “This is obviously very high
level and sensitive information but is part of
Russia and its government’s support for Mr
Trump.”
Trump Jr replies 17 minutes later and
welcomes the offer. “If it’s what you say, I
love it, especially later in the summer.”
In a later email, Goldstone describes the
Russian lawyer they were due to meet, Natalia
Veselnitskaya, as a “Russian government
attorney”.
The formatting of the emails suggests that
Trump Jr forwarded the whole chain to Paul
Manafort, then Trump’s campaign chairman, and
Jared Kushner, Trump Jr’s brother-in-law, before
the meeting the three attended with
Veselnitskaya.
Trump Jr released the email exchange on
Tuesday apparently to pre-empt their publication
by the New York Times, which, this weekend,
first broke the news of his meeting with
Veselnitskaya in June last year. Veselnitskaya
had promised compromising information about
Clinton but apparently failed to deliver.
The president’s eldest son denies any
wrongdoing and tweeted on Tuesday: “Media and
Dems are extremely invested in the Russia story.
If this nonsense meeting is all they have after
a year, I understand the desperation!”
On Monday night, the
Times had reported that Trump Jr was
informed in an email before a meeting with the
lawyer that damaging information about Clinton
to be handed over was part of an effort by the
Russian government to help the Trump campaign.
The Times did not publish the Goldstone
email, but reported that three different people
had described it to them. On Tuesday the paper
published the email, and Trump Jr posted the
email chain to Twitter.
There is no such position as crown prosecutor
of Russia.
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