The Magnitsky Act allows the US government to seize the assets of “designated Russian human rights abusers … and keep them from entering the country”. Rather, discussion focused on adoptions and, particularly, the Magnitsky Act, against which Veselnitskaya is an active lobbyist. and Veselnitskaya assert that no compromising material on Clinton was passed on at the meeting. replied, “if it’s what you say I love it”.īoth Trump Jr. In Goldstone’s first email to Trump Jr., he described the material as part of the Russian “government’s support for Mr Trump” and coming from the “Crown prosecutor of Russia” (presumably the Russian prosecutor general, a “ Putin appointee who is known to be close to Ms Veselnitskaya”). Rather than transparency, they demonstrated Trump Jr.’s knowledge that the Russian government sought to help his father’s presidential bid and his eagerness to collude with a Russian government-linked contact when given the opportunity. The decision to share the emails was utterly misguided. Finally, he pre-empted the The New York Times’ publication of his emails to Rob Goldstone, a family friend who had organised the meeting, by sharing them on Twitter in a bid to appear “transparent”. He also said that Kushner and the then Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort were uninformed about the meeting’s purpose before attending. He first claimed the meeting was just about US adoptions of Russian children then that the Russian lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya, had lured him with the promise of compromising material on Hillary Clinton, but he didn’t think she was associated with the Russian government and she nonetheless failed to deliver. Trump Jr.’s explanation of the meeting underwent daily revisions this week as the The New York Times’ reporting continued. The president denies any knowledge of the meeting, but his ignorance grows more implausible by the day. For Kushner, it is a meeting with a third Russian representative that he failed to mention in his initial security clearance application. not only failed to report that Russian intelligence was attempting to support one presidential candidate he may have broken the law by attempting to receive a campaign contribution from a foreign government.
The New York Times’ revelation of the 2016 meeting between the US president’s son, Donald Trump Jr., and son-in-law Jared Kushner, and a Kremlin-linked lawyer is extraordinary and the first public evidence of attempted collusion between Trump’s campaign and the Russian government. The silver lining may be that steadier hands are left to guide US foreign policy. This week’s shock news about meetings between senior Trump campaign members and a Russian lawyer linked to Putin is likely to disrupt the White House further.
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