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How a Pageant Led to a Trump Son’s Meeting With a Russian Lawyer
The New York Slimes ^ | July 10, 2017 | Megan Twohey and Steve Eder

Posted on 07/10/2017 6:03:27 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

During the summer of 2013, Donald J. Trump mused about whether President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia would meet him at the Miss Universe pageant in Moscow that fall. “If so, will he become my new best friend?” Mr. Trump posted on Twitter.

Mr. Putin did not make it, but the beauty competition in Moscow brought the Trump family into partnership with Emin Agalarov, a pop star in Russia, and his father, Aras — a duo that develops major real estate projects in Russia and appears friendly with the Kremlin.

Since then, Emin Agalarov has repeatedly boasted of maintaining a warm relationship with Mr. Trump. And a publicist for the younger Agalarov said on Monday that it was his client who requested that Donald Trump Jr. speak with a Kremlin-connected lawyer during the presidential campaign, a meeting first reported by The New York Times.

Donald Trump Jr. — who followed through with that meeting last June, along with Mr. Trump’s campaign chairman, Paul J. Manafort, and son-in-law, Jared Kushner — said the lawyer promised information damaging to Hillary Clinton but failed to deliver, and quickly switched to a contentious issue involving United States-Russia relations.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: trumpjremails; trumpjrrussia; trumprussia
Good thing Don Jr. didn’t hire a foreign spy to collude with Russians to produce a fake dossier on his opponent. He’d really, really be in trouble!
1 posted on 07/10/2017 6:03:27 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Unless there is a law that says meeting with Russian lawyers is a crime, I don’t give a ***damned shit what led to it.


2 posted on 07/10/2017 6:04:33 PM PDT by chris37 (Donald J. Trump, Tom Brady, The Patriots... American Destiny!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
It always seems to boil down to one thing...


3 posted on 07/10/2017 6:08:03 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Fourth estate? Ha! Our media has become the KCOTUS, the Kangaroo Court of the United States.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

So what? What a ludicrous story !


4 posted on 07/10/2017 6:14:28 PM PDT by Pikachu_Dad ("the media are selling you a line of soap")
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

He is obviously guilty of campaigning while Republican.


5 posted on 07/10/2017 6:16:11 PM PDT by bray (Pray for President Trump)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

If you live in Russia you are friendly with the Kremlin or you are dead. Good grief


6 posted on 07/10/2017 6:25:44 PM PDT by McGavin999 ("The press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood."Thomas Jefferson)
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To: bray
Yes he is.

Seems every time Trump scores a victory, such as his impressive trip this past week, MSM suddenly finds some "It's the Russians" or some other non-story that they go into frenzy over.

7 posted on 07/10/2017 6:29:10 PM PDT by Dante3
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8 posted on 07/10/2017 7:08:57 PM PDT by Brandonmark (Made America Great Again! 11.08.2016 - A DAY OF RENEWAL)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Did this Russian pop star work with Fusion GPS?


9 posted on 07/10/2017 7:41:29 PM PDT by Lisbon1940 (No full-term Governors (at the time of election!)
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