TRUMP E-MAILS
SIMON BARBER: From Russia with love, dirt and a deal
"Veselnitskaya didn’t come with dirt; she came with a proposition: dirt for a promise from Trump to lift any and all sanctions if elected"
This week witnessed if not the beginning of the end of Donald Trump’s presidency then, quite possibly, the end of the beginning. The e-mails Trump’s elder son, Donald, released on Tuesday after learning the New York Times had copies of the same correspondence may not by themselves be proof that his father’s election campaign colluded with Vladimir Putin’s Kremlin to smear Hillary Clinton. But they are anything but inconsistent with such a conclusion. The correspondence, from early June 2016, is between Donald Jnr and Rob Goldstone. Goldstone is a lunchy former UK tabloid hack turned manager of musical talent. His clients include Russian pop idol Emin Agalarov, son of Aras Agalarov, an Azerbaijani property developer sometimes called "the Donald Trump of Russia". The Agalarovs provided the Moscow venue for the 2013 final of the Miss Universe contest that Trump then partly owned. The two families, plus Goldstone, are close. In March 2016, Aras told the Washington Post he was rooting fo...
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