Russian Government Sought to Aid Trump’s Candidacy, According to Email

[sarahb 17,188]

Before arranging a meeting with a Kremlin-connected Russian lawyer he believed would offer him compromising information about Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump Jr. was informed in an email that the material was part of a Russian government effort to aid his father’s candidacy, according to three people with knowledge of the email.

The email to the younger Mr. Trump was sent by Rob Goldstone, a publicist and former British tabloid reporter who helped broker the June 2016 meeting. In a statement on Sunday, Mr. Trump acknowledged that he was interested in receiving damaging information about Mrs. Clinton, but gave no indication that he thought the lawyer might have been a Kremlin proxy.

Mr. Goldstone’s message, as described to The New York Times by the three people, indicates that the Russian government was the source of the potentially damaging information.

It does not elaborate on the wider effort by Moscow to help the Trump campaign. There is no evidence to suggest that the promised damaging information was related to Russian government computer hacking that led to the release of thousands of Democratic National Committee emails...

In an interview Monday, Mr. Goldstone said he was asked by Mr. Agalarov to set up the meeting with Donald Trump Jr. and the Russian lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya.

“He said, ‘I’m told she has information about illegal campaign contributions to the D.N.C.,’” Goldstone recalled, referring to the Democratic National Committee. He said he then emailed Don Jr., outlining what the lawyer purported to have.

But Mr. Goldstone, who wrote the email over a year ago, denied any knowledge of involvement by the Russian government in the matter, saying that never dawned on him. “Never, never ever,” he said. Later, after the email was described to The Times, efforts to reach him for further comment were unsuccessful.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/10/us/politics/donald-trump-jr-russia-email-candidacy.html

[HOTNebraskaGuy 19,547]

We done knew

[sarahb 17,188]

The irony if Trump gets brought down by emails 

[PartySick 172,514]

"News"

More like "we been (k)new(s)", amirite? 

Spoiler

 

[sarahb 17,188]

 

[sarahb 17,188]

Here's a super simplified version of what happened (which I stole from Reddit)

Campaign (Trump Jr.) read an email saying hey we are are the Russians and we have compromising information on HRC, would you like to meet?

Trump Jr. Yes I would like to do that.

[Morphine Prince 109,655]

So he knew this was to aid his father. 

Looks like collusion isn't so crazy to think about.