7/11/2017

2016 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/HILLARY CLINTON/RUSSIA/TRUMP FAMILY/DONALD JR/JARED KUSHNER: “The president’s eldest son and senior campaign aides attended a meeting last year to discuss allegedly incriminating information about Hillary Clinton they were told was being offered by the Russian government in support of Donald Trump’s candidacy, according to emails Donald Trump Jr. released Tuesday [7-11-17].
The release of the emails, following days of news reports about the June 2016 meeting, offers evidence that senior officials in the Trump camp entertained offers of Russia’s help in last year’s election. That appears to contradict longtime statements by members of the campaign that they were unaware of a Russian effort to support Mr. Trump last year.
During the campaign and since his election victory, Mr. Trump repeatedly praised President Vladimir Putin and cast doubt on the U.S. intelligence community’s conclusion that Russia sought to interfere in the election. Last week, he said in Warsaw: ‘Nobody knows for sure.’
The meeting last June was also attended by Jared Kushner, Mr. Trump’s son-in-law, who was a senior campaign aide at the time and is now a top White House official, and Paul Manafort, then the campaign chairman.”

-Paul Sonne and Rebecca Ballhaus, “Email to Trump Jr. Says Clinton Info Was Part of Moscow’s Trump Support,” The Wall Street Journal online, July 11, 2017 10:52pm