A meeting took place at
Trump Tower in
New York City on June 9, 2016, between three senior members of the
2016 Trump campaign –
Donald Trump Jr.,
Jared Kushner, and
Paul Manafort – four other U.S. citizens, and Russian lawyer
Natalia Veselnitskaya.
The meeting was arranged by publicist and long-time Trump acquaintance
Rob Goldstone on behalf of his client, Russian singer-songwriter
Emin Agalarov.
The meeting was first disclosed to U.S. government officials in April 2017, when Kushner filed a revised version of his security clearance form.
Donald Trump Jr. made several misleading statements about the meeting.
He initially told the press that the meeting was held to discuss adoptions of Russian children by Americans.
On July 8, 2017, after news reports stated that Trump Jr. knew the meeting was political, he admitted in a tweet that he had agreed to the meeting with the understanding that he would receive information damaging to
Hillary Clinton, and that he was conducting
opposition research.
When
The New York Times was about to report on email exchanges between Goldstone and Trump Jr., Trump Jr. himself published the emails.
In early July 2017, it was reported that then-President Donald Trump himself drafted Trump Jr.'s initial misleading statement.
The report was later confirmed by the president's attorneys.
In July 2018, the president denied knowledge of the meeting.
View attachment 789188
Vox
https://www.vox.com › policy-and-politics › mueller-i...
Dec 17, 2019 — Special counsel Robert
Mueller's team indicted or got guilty pleas from 34 people and three companies during their lengthy
investigation.