Guest List at Trump Jr.’s Meeting With Russian Expands Again
July 19, 2017 by admin
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Besides Donald Trump Jr. and Mr. Kaveladze, the meeting was attended by a Russian lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya, a Russian-American lobbyist and other officials from the Trump campaign.
Mr. Balber said Ms. Veselnitskaya, who had worked with Mr. Agalarov on real estate deals in Russia, asked Mr. Agalarov to introduce her to Donald Trump Jr. as a favor.
President Trump and Mr. Agalarov worked together in 2013 when Mr. Trump brought the Miss Universe pageant to Moscow.
The names of the people who attended the June 2016 meeting first surfaced in an email sent by Rob Goldstone, a music producer and publicist working for Emin Agalarov, a Russian pop star who is Mr. Agalarov’s son.
“This is obviously very high-level and sensitive information but is part of Russia and its government’s support for Mr. Trump — helped along by Aras and Emin,” Mr. Goldstone wrote to Donald Trump Jr.
Mr. Kaveladze is Facebook friends with Mr. Goldstone and the younger Mr. Agalarov.
Mr. Balber said the Agalarovs had “no idea what Mr. Goldstone was thinking” when he wrote the email. “I would call it hyperbole or puffery,” he said. “It is absolutely not true.”
He described Mr. Kaveladze as a longtime American citizen who is fluent in Russian and nearly fluent in English. “They had somebody show up at the meeting to make sure the favor was executed, that they carried through on it. And now they are in the middle of this tremendous storm,” he said.
Mr. Mueller’s team, made up of veteran F.B.I. agents and prosecutors, thinks it has identified everyone who attended the meeting, according to one person familiar with the investigation. Agents and prosecutors are eager to question everyone who was at the meeting, the person said.
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