8th Person In Don Jr. Meeting IDed As Rep For Trump’s Russian Ex-Biz Associates

A photo shows the gate of  Trump Tower  where U. S. President-elect Donald Trump  lives  in New York on Nov. 18, 2016. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe held a meeting with Donald Trump. ( The Yomiuri Shimbun via AP Images )
A photo shows the gate of Trump Tower where U. S. President-elect Donald Trump lives in New York on Nov. 18, 2016. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe held a meeting with Donald Trump. ( The Yomiuri Shimbun via AP Images )
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The eighth attendee at the now-infamous June 2016 Trump Tower with a Russian lawyer and Donald Trump, Jr. was identified by the Washington Post Tuesday as Ike Kaveladze, a senior U.S.-based official at a Russian real estate company.

Kaveladze was at the meeting as a representative for his boss Aras Agalarov, a Russian developer who has worked with the Trumps in the past, and his son, Emin, the Agalarovs’ lawyer told the Post.

The Agalarovs asked Rob Goldstone, a British music publicist, to arrange a sit-down with Trump’s eldest son so that a contact of theirs could provide what was described as incriminating information about Hillary Clinton as part of a Russian government effort to help the Trump campaign, according to an email chain Trump Jr. released last week.

Kaveladze was the last of the participants at that meeting to be identified. CNN reported earlier Tuesday that special counsel Robert Mueller wanted to speak to that eighth attendee as part of his probe into Russian interference in the U.S. election.

The Agalarov’s attorney, Scott Balber, told the Post that Kaveladze, a U.S. citizen, is a vice president specializing in real estate and finance for the Agalarovs’ company, the Crocus Group.

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  1. Avatar for krux krux says:

    Just an interesting additional tidbit from the WaPo article:

    “Balber said Kaveladze believed he would act as a translator, but arrived to discover that the lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya had brought her own translator, a former State Department employee named Anatoli Samochornov. Samochornov has declined to comment, citing a non-disclosure agreement he signed as a professional translator.”

    I’ve wanted to know more about the translator. It does not seem wise to assume that they are a “non-actor” in all of this.

  2. So anyone else in the clown car? Maybe someone who is orange?

  3. No doubt Hillary was there as well as a double-dealing, double agent whose mind control made them all “take” the meeting.

  4. Avatar for krux krux says:

    I like the theory that Manafort was actually talking to him on his cell.

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