7/12/2017

2016 ELECTION/HILLARY CLINTON/RUSSIA/TRUMP FAMILY/DONALD JR: “The Kremlin said Wednesday [7-12-17] the release of an email chain by Donald Trump Jr. was part of a ‘long-running TV drama,’ dismissing an alleged Russian government offer to pass on information to damage Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.
‘There is nothing to investigate,’ said Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, according to the news agency RIA-Novosti, after he was asked to comment on the publication of emails that showed the younger Mr. Trump attended a meeting last year to discuss purportedly incriminating information about Mrs. Clinton.
In his comments to RIA-Novosti and other news agencies, Mr. Peskov said the disclosure appeared timed to damage U.S.-Russian relations after a meeting last Friday between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin. He compared the new revelations with a ‘long-running TV drama that can compete with the most successful series airing in the U.S.,’ the news agency Interfax reported.
The Russian government has maintained that it wasn’t involved in any effort to tilt last year’s election in favor of Mr. Trump. But the release of the emails Tuesday appeared to indicate that Russia’s prosecutor general may have sought to sought to influence the Trump campaign through Aras Agalarov, the Russian-Azerbaijani businessman who organized a Moscow beauty pageant in 2013 with Mr. Trump.”

-Nathan Hodge, “Kremlin Dismisses Alleged Russian Offer of Incriminating Clinton Info,” The Wall Street Journal online, July 12, 2017 10:27am