NATION/WORLD
Wednesday, July 12, 2017
East Oregonian
Emails show Trump Jr. embraced
help said to be from Kremlin
By CHAD DAY
and ERIC TUCKER
Associated Press
WASHINGTON
—
Donald Trump’s eldest son
revealed Tuesday that he was
eager to hear damaging infor-
mation about Hillary Clinton
from the Russian government,
disclosing a series of emails
that marked the clearest sign
to date that Trump’s campaign
was willing to consider elec-
tion help from a longtime U.S.
adversary.
The email exchange
posted to Twitter by Donald
Trump Jr. showed him
conversing with a music
publicist who wanted him
to meet with a “Russian
government attorney” who
supposedly had dirt on
Clinton as “part of Russia and
its government’s support for
Mr. Trump.” The messages
reveal that Trump Jr. was
told the Russian government
had information that could
“incriminate” Clinton and
her dealings with Russia.
“I love it,” Trump Jr. said
in one email response.
As the emails reverberated
across the political world,
Trump Jr. defended his
actions in an interview with
Fox News, blaming the deci-
sion to take the meeting on the
“million miles per hour” pace
of a presidential campaign
and his suspicion that the
lawyer might have informa-
tion about “underreported”
scandals involving Clinton.
Trump Jr. said the meeting
“really went nowhere” and
that he never told his father
about it because there was
“nothing to tell.”
“In retrospect I probably
would have done things a little
differently,” Trump Jr. said.
Democrats in Congress
voiced outrage and insisted
the messages showed clear
collusion, with California
Rep. Adam Schiff, the top
Democrat on the House intel-
ligence committee, declaring
that “all of the campaign’s
previous denials obviously
AP Photo/Richard Drew
Donald Trump Jr. is interviewed by host Sean Hannity
on his Fox News Channel television program, in New
York Tuesday. Donald Trump Jr. eagerly accepted help
from what was described to him as a Russian govern-
ment effort to aid his father’s campaign with damaging
information about Hillary Clinton, according to emails
he released publicly on Tuesday.
“In retrospect
I probably
would have
done things a
little differently”
— Donald Trump Jr.
now have to be viewed in a
different context.”
Yet Republicans — who
stand the most to lose polit-
ically from Trump’s Russia
ordeal — did not join in
the condemnation. Senate
Majority Leader Mitch
McConnell said he was
confident Senate investiga-
tors would “get to the bottom
of whatever happened.” And
Sen. Susan Collins, a Maine
Republican on the intelli-
gence committee, cautioned
that the emails were “only
part of the picture.”
Trump Jr., who was deeply
involved in his father’s presi-
dential campaign, portrayed
his decision to release the
emails as an effort “to be totally
transparent.” In fact, they had
already been obtained by The
New York Times.
Hours after the son posted
the emails, the father rose to
his defense.
“My son is a high quality
person and I applaud his
transparency,” the president
said in a statement read to
reporters by White House
spokeswoman Sarah Huck-
abee Sanders. Although
Sanders declined to answer
questions about the emails,
she stood by the White
House’s longstanding insis-
tence that no one in Trump’s
campaign colluded to influ-
ence the election.
The messages were the
latest disclosure to roil the
ongoing investigation into
Russia’s interference in the
election and potential collu-
sion with Trump’s campaign.
U.S. intelligence agencies
have said the Russian govern-
ment meddled in the election
through hacking to aid Trump.
As congressional commit-
tees and Special Counsel
Robert Mueller investigate,
the emails will almost certainly
be reviewed for any signs of
coordination with the Kremlin,
which the White House and
Trump Jr. have repeatedly
said did not take place. A
spokesman for Mueller, the
former FBI director, declined
to comment, citing the ongoing
investigation.
In the emails — dated early
June 2016, soon after Trump
secured the GOP nomina-
tion — music publicist Rob
Goldstone wrote to Trump
Jr. to connect him to Russian
attorney Natalia Veselnits-
kaya. Goldstone wrote that the
information “would be very
useful to your father.”
“If it’s what you say I
love it especially later in the
summer,” Trump Jr. replied
in one of the emails. Days
later, Veselnitskaya met
with Trump Jr. on June 9 at
Trump Tower in New York.
Veselnitskaya has denied
ever working for the Russian
government.
The emails show Gold-
stone telling Trump that
singer Emin Agalarov and
his father, Moscow-based
developer Aras Agalarov,
had “helped along” the
Russian
government’s
support for Trump. The elder
Agalarov was involved with
Trump in hosting the 2013
Miss Universe pageant in
Moscow. The two men once
also had preliminary discus-
sions about building a Trump
Tower in Moscow, but they
fell through. Trump also
appeared in a music video
with the younger Agalarov.
In his email, Goldstone
said that the “Crown pros-
ecutor of Russia” offered
to provide the information
on Clinton to the Trump
campaign in a meeting with
Aras Agalarov. There is no
such royal title in the Russian
Federation, but Goldstone —
who is British — may have
been referring to the title
given to state prosecutors in
the United Kingdom.
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BRIEFLY
16 dead in
Mississippi in
worst Marine
crash since 2005
ITTA BENA, Miss.
(AP) — Investigators
picked through debris
across a fire-blackened
soybean field Tuesday to
try to determine why a U.S.
military plane slammed
into the ground, killing all
16 people aboard in the
deadliest Marine crash
anywhere in the world in
more than a decade.
The KC-130 air tanker
was carrying members
of an elite Marine
special operations unit
cross-country for training
in Arizona when it went
down Monday afternoon
in the Mississippi Delta,
the military said. The fiery
crash scattered wreckage
for miles around and sent a
pillar of black smoke rising
over the countryside.
Witnesses said they
heard low, rumbling
explosions when the plane
was still high in the sky,
saw the aircraft spiraling
toward the flat, green
landscape and spotted an
apparently empty parachute
floating toward the earth.
Fifteen Marines and a
Navy sailor were killed.
Their identities were not
immediately released.
The crash happened
outside the small town of
Itta Bena, about 85 miles
north of the state capital
of Jackson. Bodies were
found more than a mile
from the plane.
The Marine Corps
said the cause was under
investigation.
IOC to pick
Los Angeles, Paris
for 2024 or 2028
Olympics
LAUSANNE,
Switzerland (AP) —
Finally, Los Angeles and
Paris have their Olympic
hosting destiny in their
own hands.
If they can agree who
goes first, each city will be
awarded either the 2024 or
2028 Summer Games.
International Olympic
Committee members voted
unanimously on Tuesday
to seek a consensus
three-way deal between
the two bid cities and the
IOC executive board. Talks
will open with Paris widely
seen as the favorite for
2024.
If a deal falls through,
only the 2024 hosting
rights will be voted on
when the IOC next meets,
on Sept. 13 in Lima, Peru.
However, an agreement
seemed assured, judging
by the reaction of the two
mayors.
“I have full confidence
that we will get there,”
LA Mayor Eric Garcetti
said at a celebratory news
conference.
U.S. inks anti-
terror deal with
Qatar in press
to end dispute
DOHA, Qatar (AP)
— U.S. Secretary of State
Rex Tillerson sealed a
deal Tuesday to intensify
Qatar’s counterterrorism
efforts, tackling a central
issue in the spat pitting
the besieged Gulf
nation against four other
American allies lined up
against it.
Tillerson outlined the
agreement at the end of
his first visit to Qatar since
its neighbors moved to
isolate it over grievances,
including what they allege
is support for extremists.
The centerpiece of
the visit was the signing
of a memorandum of
understanding that lays
out steps Qatar can take
to bolster its fight against
terrorism and address
shortfalls in policing
terrorism funding.
Though largely
symbolic, the deal allows
Tillerson to show some
progress in his first major
attempt at global mediation
as secretary of state, and
also bolsters President
Donald Trump’s claim to
fight terror financing.
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