Instead of circling the wagons, a good number of conservative sources and pundits seemed to be eyeing the horizon. What was different this time around, however, was the response from sources on the right. The reaction to Donald Jr.‘s admission from that faction of the press that President Trump has referred to as “the enemy of the people” was consistent with its previous coverage of the Trump White House. American intelligence agencies have determined that the Russian government tried to sway the election in favor of Mr. The Justice Department and the House and Senate Intelligence Committees are examining whether any of President Trump’s associates colluded with the Russian government to disrupt last year’s election. Trump’s office on the 25th floor of Trump Tower, just one level below the office of the future president. On June 9, the Russian lawyer was sitting in the younger Mr. agreed, adding that he would most likely bring along “Paul Manafort (campaign boss)” and “my brother-in-law,” Jared Kushner, now one of the president’s closest White House advisers. He replied within minutes: “If it’s what you say I love it especially later in the summer.”įour days later, after a flurry of emails, the intermediary wrote back, proposing a meeting in New York on Thursday with a “Russian government attorney.”ĭonald Trump Jr. If the future president’s eldest son was surprised or disturbed by the provenance of the promised material - or the notion that it was part of a continuing effort by the Russian government to aid his father’s campaign - he gave no indication. The documents “would incriminate Hillary and her dealings with Russia and would be very useful to your father,” read the email, written by a trusted intermediary, who added, “This is obviously very high level and sensitive information but is part of Russia and its government’s support for Mr. could hardly have been more explicit: One of his father’s former Russian business partners had been contacted by a senior Russian government official and was offering to provide the Trump campaign with dirt on Hillary Clinton. The June 3, 2016, email sent to Donald Trump Jr. may have denied the Times a scoop, but that couldn’t insulate the Trump administration from the impact of the paper’s multi-part story backed by Donald Jr.‘s confirmation (per the NYT): Here is page 4 (which did not post due to space constraints).
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Here's my statement and the full email chain /x050r5n5LQ decided to exercise at least a modicum of control early on Tuesday by beating his ink-stained antagonists to the punch and tweeting out key details The New York Times was just about to break: Of course, it was the president’s eldest son himself who served as the most important source of published information about the meeting with Natalia Veselnitskaya, facilitated by British music publicist Rob Goldstone, now dubbed by the Daily Beast as “the Playboy Who Could Bring Down Trump.” According to reports, Donald Jr. Really the Fredo of His Family? An Investigation” ( Vanity Fair) “Comparing Donald Trump Jr. Emails Show Russia Ties” ( The Guardian).Īnd then there were the headlines about other headlines-e.g., “Is Donald Trump Jr. Our Era’s Fredo Corleone?” ( The Boston Globe) “Could Trump Jr.‘s Meeting With a Russian Attorney Count as Illegal Conspiracy?” ( The Washington Post) “Red Curtain Falls: Trump Jr. Emails Change Everything” ( Vox) “Trump Aides Freaking Out Over Don Jr.‘s Russia Email: The ‘Sum Of All Fears’” ( Daily Beast) “Is Donald Trump Jr. To wit, here are just a few picks from an array of dramatic, even cinematic headlines posted Tuesday and Wednesday: “Trump’s Defeated Defenders Can Only Whimper” ( Bloomberg View) “The Donald Trump Jr. Given that setup, it’s not surprising that this week’s media coverage from several such publications about Donald Trump Jr.‘s fateful Jmeeting with a woman described by an associate of Trump’s camp as a “Russian government attorney” who could offer damaging information about Trump Sr.‘s then-presidential rival Hillary Clinton cast the story as a bombshell of apocalyptic proportions.
Scanning the headlines released over the course of 2017 by mainstream sources like The Washington Post, The New York Times, Vox, the Daily Beast and other outlets could well give news consumers the distinct impression that we are thisclose to a ruinous reveal about the Trump administration’s alleged ties to the uppermost echelons of Moscow’s business and political elite. sits for an interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity on Tuesday in New York City.
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