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Post by Admin on Feb 1, 2019 17:48:23 GMT
When Donald Trump Jr. testified to Congress about his meeting with a Russian lawyer during the 2016 campaign, he was asked about two calls he placed to blocked phone numbers while setting up the meeting. The president’s son said he couldn’t remember whom he called — and Democrats questioned whether he called his father. But Senate investigators have determined the calls were not in fact to Trump’s number, CNN reported Thursday. Instead, per the New York Times, Don Jr. called NASCAR CEO Brian France and investor Howard Lorber. Now, Trump is claiming vindication. But Democrats still have many questions. The mysterious calls came under scrutiny because President Trump has long claimed that he knew nothing about his son’s meeting — at which Don Jr. was offered incriminating information about Hillary Clinton from the Russian government — in advance. (Trump’s team has claimed the meeting ended up being uneventful and inconsequential.) Democrats have long been suspicious of this claim, and have looked for evidence showing Trump did know. The “blocked call from Don Jr. to Trump” was one theory proposed about how he could have found out. In particular, one of the blocked calls took place on June 6, 2016, just before Don Jr. called back Emin Agalarov, the Russian-Azerbaijani pop star who helped set up the meeting.
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Post by Admin on Feb 3, 2019 17:34:24 GMT
Donald Trump Jr. will be indicted and used by special counsel Robert Mueller to ensnare his father President Donald Trump, a former prosecutor predicted. During a segment on MSNBC’s AM Joy on Saturday, Paul Butler, a former Department of Justice public corruption prosecutor, and host Joy Reid discussed the latest developments in Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election and possible collusion between Trump’s campaign team and Moscow officials. “Does Mueller have to indict Trump in order to put the proper coda at the end of the long symphony?” Reid asked the ex-prosecutor. “Mueller is not going to indict Trump, because he’s going to follow the DOJ employee handbook, but he has leverage over the president in terms of Donald Trump, Jr.,” Butler explained. “We’ve seen Mueller use people’s kids to get to folks in the past. He could do this with Donald Trump, Jr.” He continued: “Trump, Jr. went into the Senate Intelligence Committee, took an oath to tell the truth, and lied his butt off.” “You think he will get indicted?” Reid asked. “If Roger Stone and Michael Cohen get indicted for lying to the Intelligence Committee and Donald, Jr. lied, then he gets indicted too,” Butler responded.
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Post by Admin on Feb 22, 2019 17:30:42 GMT
Donald Trump Jr. and Vanessa Trump have come to an agreement about their divorce, PEOPLE confirms. In a joint statement on Friday, the president’s eldest son and his wife of more than 13 years said they finalized their divorce agreement “at the end of last year.” The two wed in November 2005 and share five children. “We are incredibly lucky to have five amazing children and are committed to raising them together,” they said. “Our kids and their happiness will always be our first priority.” On Friday, a spokesman for the New York state court system said the divorce case “has been resolved,” but said he could not provide more details as the paperwork was sealed. Don Jr. and Vanessa, both 41, split when she filed for divorce last March. They have since maintained a cordial relationship, spending time together at the president’s Mar-a-Lago Club in Florida and at the White House’s annual Easter Egg roll in April and exchanging well-wishes on Mother’s Day and Father’s Day.
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Post by Admin on Feb 26, 2019 17:58:12 GMT
The Fox News hosts asked the president’s son to comment on investigations into the Trump family’s business dealings by the Southern District of New York, which wouldn’t be subject to the same Department of Justice guidelines as special counsel Robert Mueller. “I’m old enough to remember two weeks ago when Mueller would be the savior,” Trump Jr said. “That’s not what they’re trying to do – they’re not investigating actual crimes anymore. They’re literally trying to find something they can make a big deal of.” The president’s son expressed confidence that he and his family would not be prosecuted. “I’ve been hearing this for two years — everyone is getting, everyone is going to jail,” he said. “Meanwhile, they haven’t actually found anything relates to this. What they did was put incredible pressure on regular guys that couldn’t afford million dollars in legal fees, and got them to slip up, say something incorrectly. They pretended they were their friends.” Trump’s campaign chairman Paul Manafort, deputy campaign chairman Rick Gates, former national security adviser Mike Flynn, longtime Trump Organization attorney Michael Cohen and former campaign adviser George Papadopoulos have all pleaded guilty to lying to investigators. “There are no actual crimes,” Trump Jr. said. “There’s only things that people did in past lives – in 2006 before we even thought we ever get into this crazy world, and that’s what it is. They’re touting these things as victories– it’s not. What it has been a total farce, the greatest -hunt in American history.”
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Post by Admin on Mar 9, 2019 17:36:10 GMT
Erik Prince, former head of mercenary business Blackwater, revealed in a bombshell interview Friday that he attended a meeting in Trump Tower with Donald Trump Jr. and a representative of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates to discuss “Iran policy” during the presidential campaign.
The interview marked the first time Prince has publicly acknowledged such a meeting. Prince said in congressional testimony in 2017 that he had no “official” or “unofficial” role in the campaign — other than a “yard sign” and writing “papers” — according to the transcript of his testimony before the House Intelligence Committee. Nor did he mention the meeting in his testimony, according to transcripts.
The New York Times reported last year that Prince organized the 2016 meeting at Trump Tower with President Donald Trump’s eldest son and Lebanese-American businessman George Nader. Nader revealed at the meeting that the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia wanted to aid Trump in his bid for the presidency, according to the newspaper.
The meeting also reportedly included now-top White House aide Stephen Miller and Israeli social media expert Joel Zamel.
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