Rob Goldstone, the Donald Trump Jr. acquaintance who brokered the meeting with a Kremlin-linked lawyer, the day after the 2016 US election: pic.twitter.com/20bMLUvDiH
— Jon Swaine (@jonswaine) July 9, 2017
With the Trump crime cartel, sooner or later, it always comes back to dirty money. Kudos to the Washington Post, “Donald Trump Jr. met with Russian lawyer during presidential campaign after being promised information helpful to father’s effort”:
… In his statement, Trump Jr. said he was approached about the meeting by an acquaintance he knew from the 2013 Miss Universe pageant.
He did not name the acquaintance, but in an interview Sunday, Rob Goldstone, a music publicist who is friendly with Trump Jr., told The Washington Post that he had arranged the meeting at the request of a Russian client and had attended it along with Veselnitskaya.
Goldstone has been active with the Miss Universe pageant and works as a manager for Emin Agalarov, a Russian pop star whose father is a wealthy Moscow developer who sponsored the pageant in the Russian capital in 2013.
Goldstone would not name the client. He said Veselnitskaya wanted to discuss ways that Trump could be helpful about the Russian government’s adoption issue should he be elected president…
Veselnitskaya’s client roll includes individuals and companies close to the Kremlin. She has for the past several years been a leading advocate around the world to fight Magnitsky Acts, sanctions intended to rebuke Russia for human rights abuses. The acts are named for Sergei Magnitsky, a Russian lawyer who died under mysterious circumstances in a Moscow prison in 2009 after exposing a corruption scandal…
That evening, a film critical of the Magnitsky sanctions — and the story behind them — showed at the Newseum. On June 15, Veselnitskaya was featured on the Sputnik News website criticizing the sanctions and its leading advocate, William Browder, a financier who left Russia a decade ago amid concerns about corruption, including that exposed by Magnitsky, the lawyer and auditor he had hired.
Browder led the lobbying for the Magnitsky Act’s passage in 2012, a vote that infuriated Putin, leading the Russian leader to retaliate by halting American adoption of Russian children. The adoption issue is frequently used as a talking point by opponents of the Magnitsky Act, Browder said.
More than that… Aras Agalarov was liasion between Trump and Putin https://t.co/MWXS1feLvY
— Jeremy Breningstall (@breningstall) July 10, 2017
The family planned to build a Moscow Trump Tower, and say they’ve had contact w Trump since he became @POTUS. More: https://t.co/ZjP3SxvCMX https://t.co/EzYBnRtnjF
— Christina Wilkie (@christinawilkie) July 10, 2017
@AgalarovAras I had a great weekend with you and your family. You have done a FANTASTIC job. TRUMP TOWER-MOSCOW is next. EMIN was WOW!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 11, 2013
While the world tries to figure out what Donald Trump was doing in a hotel in Moscow – I actually know https://t.co/FkVHBFeWGy
— emin-music (@eminofficial) January 12, 2017
It’s all D-list infotainment until some “enemy of the state” dies while in custody…
On Russia—I strongly encourage watching @RichardEngel: Why the U.S. passed the Magnitsky Act https://t.co/zT3SxhHMfZ https://t.co/a8KS616c9S
— Bradd Jaffy (@BraddJaffy) July 9, 2017
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