New York Times: Trump Jr. Was Told in Email of Russian Effort to Aid Campaign
WASHINGTON — 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. The meeting took place less than a week before it was widely reported that Russian hackers had infiltrated the committee’s servers.
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WNU Editor: The New York Times is quoting three anonymous sources who are claiming that an email was sent to Donald Trump Jr. telling him that the Russians were trying to aid the campaign. But the author of this email has a different opinion on what he wrote ....
.... Mr. Goldstone represents the Russian pop star Emin Agalarov, whose father was President Trump’s business partner in bringing the Miss Universe pageant to Moscow in 2013. 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.,’” Mr. Goldstone recalled, referring to the Democratic National Committee. He said he then emailed Donald Trump 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.
So .... three anonymous sources supposedly have a private email to Donald Trump Jr. that talks about Russian efforts to aid the campaign, but as of this moment no one has posted this email, and the author of the email has a different take on it. The New York Times is also admitting that the email was read to them, which I guess means that they have not seen it ....
.... 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.
The New York Times is also not saying how these three anonymous sources got this email (U.S. intelligence community? Hackers? The Boogie man?). But it gets better .... after reading the above New York Times article 3 times .... as well as reading the main stream media's reaction to it .... no one has provided any evidence that anyone did anything wrong.
So why the dog and pony show?
This blog has been covering this story non-stop for over a year. I can sit down and write a list that will easily reach a hundred claims and allegations of wrong doings and crimes that some people firmly believe the Trump campaign and the Trump family have committed since Donald Trump made his speech that he was running for President. Claims and allegations that never ended anywhere .... or proved any wrongdoing. Is the new story involving Donald Trump Jr. going to reveal something new .... I do not know. Will Special Counsel Mueller look into this and find something improper and illegal .... I do not know. But if this is what President Trump's opponents are banking on that will lead to his eventual removal .... they are going to be sorely disappointed.