Analysis: What we can still learn from Donald Trump Jr.
Donald Trump Jr., son of President Trump, stands in an elevator at Trump Tower in New York on Jan. 18. By Philip Bump Philip Bump National correspondent focused largely on the numbers behind politics Email Bio Follow May 9 at 9:53 AM Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell sent an unsubtle message Tuesday when, during a speech from the Senate floor, he declared that the investigation of connections between Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and Russia was a “case closed” situation.
This would seem to be one of those “case closed” situations in McConnell’s estimation. After all, Mueller’s report determined that no illegal activity occurred; specifically, that there wasn’t sufficient evidence of a violation of campaign finance rules to be able to prosecute Trump Jr. or others involved.
The actual subject of the meeting, according to those who attended, was a law called the Magnitsky Act, which sanctioned prominent Russians for the death of an anti-corruption activist in a Russian prison. In response to the passage of the law during the Obama administration, Russian President Vladimir Putin blocked Americans from adopting Russian children.
“A series of important government infrastructure projects, including a $1.2 billion university campus in Russia’s Far East and stadiums for the upcoming World Cup,” Andrew Roth wrote then, “have made [Agalarov] a trusted executor for the Kremlin, if not a member of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s inner circle.”
In an interview with Vice News last year, though, Emin Agalarov was more certain: The two had spoken. “I have no recollection of learning at the time that Donald Trump, Jr., Paul Manafort, or Jared Kushner was considering participating in a meeting in June 2016 concerning potentially negative information about Hillary Clinton,” Trump’s response to Mueller reads. “Nor do I recall learning during the campaign that the June 9, 2016 meeting had taken place, that the referenced emails existed. or that Donald J. Trump, Jr.
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