Here's my statement and the full email chain http://pic.twitter.com/x050r5n5LQ— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) July 11, 2017
Courtesy of Reuters:Here is page 4 (which did not post due to space constraints). http://pic.twitter.com/z1Xi4nr2gq— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) July 11, 2017
Presidential candidate Donald Trump's eldest son eagerly agreed last year to meet a woman he was told was a Russian government lawyer who might have information incriminating Democratic rival Hillary Clinton as part of Russian government support for his father, according to an email chain released on Tuesday.
The email chain was between Donald Trump Jr., who posted it on Twitter, and Rob Goldstone, a publicist who helped to arrange the June 9, 2016 meeting with Natalia Veselnitskaya, who says she is a private lawyer and denies having Kremlin ties.
The disclosures in the email chain could provide ammunition for U.S. investigators probing whether there was collusion between the Kremlin and Trump’s Republican presidential campaign following a U.S. intelligence conclusion that Moscow sought to hurt Clinton and help Trump in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
"The Crown prosecutor of Russia ... 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," said the June 3, 2016, email to Trump Jr. from publicist Rob Goldstone.
"This is obviously very high level and sensitive information but is part of Russia and its government's support for Mr. Trump," according to the email posted by Trump Jr. on Twitter.
"If it's what you say I love it especially later in the summer," Trump Jr. partly replied in the exchange, which he said represented the entire chain of his emails about the meeting.
On the top subject line of this first email says quite clearly, "Russia-Clinton-private and confidential."
That alone would have given just about anybody with half a brain pause. But not Junior!
"If it's what you say I love it!"
And by the time he got to the part about the "Crown prosecutor of Russia...to provide Trump campaign with information that would incriminate Hillary," followed quickly by this, "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," he should have pushed himself away from the keyboard and called the Trump IT guys to scrub his computer clean of any mention of the emails and have this Goldstone dude removed from his list of addresses.
The fact that he didn't backs up that lawyer's assertion that:
“It is quite possible that maybe they were longing for such an information. They wanted it so badly that they could only hear the thought that they wanted.”
In other words what are illegal and unethical behaviors if you can possibly get your hands on dirt to use against your enemies?
Okay agreeing to meet with a Russian agent, with the promise of receiving Russian government attained information on your father's political opponent, during a presidential campaign.
Is there any way that this is NOT considered collusion?
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