‘There was nothing to tell’ Donald Trump Jr says of Russian meeting
Washington — Donald Trump’s eldest son released e-mails on Tuesday showing that he embraced Russian efforts to support his father’s presidential campaign — a shocking disclosure likely to further fuel speculation over Moscow’s suspected role in the election. The revelation puts the US president’s son at the centre of a burgeoning scandal involving multiple US investigations into whether Trump associates colluded with Moscow in its efforts to tilt the 2016 election in the Republican’s favour. In a string of e-mails released on Tuesday, Donald Trump Jr was told by an interlocutor that he could get "very high level and sensitive information" that was "part of Russia and its government’s support for Trump." In response, the 39-year-old — who now runs the family real-estate business in his father’s stead — wrote back saying: "If it’s what you say, I love it." He then set up a meeting with a "Russian government attorney", the e-mails show. The e-mail chain was released in its entirety by ...
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