{"id":1605,"date":"2017-07-11T17:15:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-11T17:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/democrats.org\/blog\/2017\/07\/11\/dnc-on-donald-trump-jrs-email-exchange\/"},"modified":"2024-05-23T20:19:09","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T20:19:09","slug":"dnc-on-donald-trump-jrs-email-exchange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/dnc-on-donald-trump-jrs-email-exchange\/","title":{"rendered":"DNC on Donald Trump Jr\u2019s Email Exchange"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>In response to the release of the&nbsp;email&nbsp;exchange&nbsp;in which&nbsp;Donald&nbsp;Trump&nbsp;Jr. was informed of the Russian government&rsquo;s effort to help his father,&nbsp;DNC&nbsp;deputy communications director Adrienne Watson released the following statement:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Let&rsquo;s be clear:&nbsp;Donald&nbsp;Trump&nbsp;Jr. was told in explicit terms that the Russian government wanted to help his father win the election, and he knew the information was coming from a family with close ties to Vladimir Putin.&nbsp;Instead of reporting this to the FBI, the President&rsquo;s son said &lsquo;I love it&rsquo; and invited the&nbsp;Trump&nbsp;campaign&rsquo;s most senior aides to participate.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This investigation is far from over, but there is no longer any question that the&nbsp;Trump&nbsp;campaign welcomed the opportunity to collude with Russia in last year&rsquo;s election.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><u>ADDITIONAL TAKEAWAYS:<\/u><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:3pt;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Donald&nbsp;Jr. was explicitly told that the Russian government was trying to help his father, and the information came from Emin Agalarov, the son of Aras Agalarov, a powerful Russian oligarch with close ties to Putin.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Donald&nbsp;Jr. did not just speak to the publicist and Russian lawyer &ndash; the&nbsp;email&nbsp;chain makes clear that he had his own phone conversation about the Russian effort to help his father with Emin Agalarov.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"margin-left:3pt;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Donald&nbsp;Jr.&rsquo;s was given details about the Russian efforts that should have disturbed any patriotic American, including the fact that Aras Agalarov was meeting with a government prosecutor in Moscow to uncover damaging information about Hillary Clinton.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Agalarovs are just as close to&nbsp;Donald&nbsp;Trump&nbsp;Sr. as they are to his son.&nbsp; Their central role in this effort casts serious doubt on the White House&rsquo;s claim that the President was unaware of this episode.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Donald&nbsp;Jr., Manafort, and Kushner met with the Russian lawyer one floor below&nbsp;Donald&nbsp;Trump&rsquo;s office in the&nbsp;Trump&nbsp;Organization&rsquo;s suite, while&nbsp;Trump&nbsp;was in New York City and holding meetings at&nbsp;TrumpTower.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"margin-left:3pt;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Donald&nbsp;Jr. appears to have forwarded this entire&nbsp;email&nbsp;conversation to both Paul Manafort and Jared Kushner.&nbsp; Is it safe to assume they knew ahead of the meeting that Russia was the source of the damaging information?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>After receiving this information, the&nbsp;Trump&nbsp;campaign stood by as the Russian interference effort unfolded and they did nothing but celebrate and encourage the Kremlin to continue &ndash; even through this last weekend, when the President appeared to give Putin a pass for the whole thing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In response to the release of the&nbsp;email&nbsp;exchange&nbsp;in which&nbsp;Donald&nbsp;Trump&nbsp;Jr. was informed of the Russian government&rsquo;s effort to help his father,&nbsp;DNC&nbsp;deputy communications director Adrienne Watson released the following statement: &ldquo;Let&rsquo;s be clear:&nbsp;Donald&nbsp;Trump&nbsp;Jr. was told in explicit terms that the Russian government wanted to help his father win the election, and he knew the information was coming from <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - 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