President Donald Trumpâs eldest son eagerly agreed last year to meet a woman he was told was a Russian government lawyer who might have damaging information about Democratic White House rival Hillary Clinton as part of Moscowâs official support for his father, according to emails released on Tuesday.
The messages show that the younger Trump was open to the prospect of âvery high level and sensitive informationâ from a Russian attorney that a go-between described as âpart of Russia and its governmentâs support for Mr. Trumpâ ahead of a meeting on June 9, 2016.
âIf itâs what you say I love it,â Trump Jr. responded.
He released the messages on Twitter after the New York Times said it planned to write about them and sought comment from him. In an interview with Fox News, Trump Jr. said that Trumpâs campaign manager at the time, Paul Manafort, and son-in-law Jared Kushner, now a top White House adviser, also attended the meeting with Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya, who denies having Kremlin ties.
He said Veselnitskaya did not provide any damaging information about Clinton at the meeting and instead sought to discuss
Russian sanctions.
âIn retrospect, I probably would have done things a little differently,â he said. âFor me, this was opposition research.â
Nevertheless, the correspondence between him and Rob Goldstone, a publicist who arranged the meeting, could provide fodder for U.S. investigators probing whether Trumpâs campaign colluded with the Kremlin.
REUTERS, 12th
JULY, 2017
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