The son of the American president, Donald Trump, was told that the Government of Russia was the source of damaging information about the former Democratic presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton, before his meeting with a Russian lawyer on this matter, the New York Times reported yesterday. .
Citing three anonymous sources, the NYT said publicist Rob Goldstone, who helped broker the June 2016 meeting, sent an email to Donald Trump Jr. signaling the Kremlin was a source of potentially damaging information. and that he was given "as part of the Russian Government's efforts to help his father's candidacy", writes Radio Evropa e Lire.
In the email, publicist Goldstone is believed to have written that Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya had claimed to have information about suspicions about illegal Democratic National Committee campaign contributions that she thought might be useful to the son of Mr. Trump.
According to New York Times sources, this email does not provide details about Moscow's alleged efforts to help Donald Trump.
In a previous interview with the New York Times, publicist Goldstone denied knowing the source of the information. He was not immediately available for questioning about the newly reported email.
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The meeting, attended by the president's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and then-campaign manager Paul Manafort, was held three weeks after Donald Trump secured enough delegates to secure the Republican Party nomination and nearly a month before the convention. party nominee.
This meeting also occurred less than a week before the media widely reported that Russian hackers had broken into the servers of the Democratic National Committee and stolen thousands of emails.
It is expected that Mr Goldstone's email, if it exists, will be sought by the US Justice Department and congressional committees, which are investigating Russian meddling in the US election and possible collusion between Mr Trump's campaign and agents who have act for Moscow.
Donald Trump Jr. has admitted that he agreed to meet with lawyer Veselnitskaya to learn damaging information about former Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton.
However, this is the first time that it has been indicated that he was informed before the meeting that the information comes from the Kremlin, as part of efforts to help Donald Trump's candidacy.
He has denied receiving any specific information about the Clinton campaign during the meeting.
Alan Futerfas, the lawyer of Donald Trump Jr., told the newspaper, New York Times, that his client did nothing wrong and promised to cooperate with the investigators.
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Donald Trump Jr. is expected to be invited to Congress to testify regarding the meeting with the Russian lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya.
"This is the first time the public has seen clear evidence of at least one attempt by the Trump campaign to obtain information, in this case from a potential outside agent, that would interfere with Hillary Clinton's campaign effort. This, again, is a pointed type of assumption that was raised during this thorough investigation. We need to have more information," said Democrat Mark Werner, a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee.
