Read Donald Trump Jrs Emails Setting Up His Clinton Meeting With Russian Lawyer
On Twitter Tuesday, President Donald Trump's son posted a series of emails that led to his controversial meeting with Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya "in order to be totally transparent.", In his statement, which he posted alongside screenshots of a series of email exchanges, Trump Jr. said he thought the meeting he took amid the 2016 election last June was "political opposition research" for then-Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton. He originally planned to have a phone conversation, but it didn't work out and a meeting in New York was later arranged. "As Rob Goldstone said just today in the press," Trump wrote, "the entire meeting was the most inane nonsense I have ever heard'.", The email exchanges between Trump, Jared Kushner, then-campaign chairman Paul Manafort and Goldstone, a music promoter who represents Emin Agalarov  the man who arranged Trump's meeting with Veselnitskaya  show the president's son open to meeting for potentially negative information on Clinton, "especially later in the summer.", Read the emails in full below