Paul Manafort appears to be distancing himself from the meeting he attended at Trump Tower in June 2016 with Donald Trump Jr. and a Kremlin-linked lawyer.
An unnamed “source close to Manafort” claimed to Politico on Tuesday that Manafort did not read the entire email chain Trump Jr. had forwarded him about the meeting, and said the former campaign chairman was unaware of exactly who he would meet.
If he had read past a short note from Trump Jr. about moving the meeting time, Manafort would have seen that he would be meeting with a “Russian government attorney” who supposedly had damaging information on Hillary Clinton, and that the meeting was described as part of the Russian government’s efforts to sway the 2016 election in Donald Trump’s favor.
Hey, you can’t hold me accountable for things I didn’t read (but DID participate in)…
Thanks for confirming that Jr sent you and kush the email chain.
Uh oh.
Should’ve at least read Page 4, Paul:
Hilarious. He was only there because he was told there would be caviar.
Trump Jr.'s story that Veselnitskaya provided no useful information is hard to swallow to say the least.
The initial email from Goldstone specifically states the information is coming from Aras Agalarov, a Russian real estate billionaire with close ties to Trump, including plans to build Trump Tower Moscow, which Agalarov states was put on ice for now due to Trump’s election. Hard to imagine Agalarov went through all this trouble to feed the Trump campaign vague and useless stuff, as Jr. rather ridiculously claimed. Details about hacked DNC emails relating to Clinton, however, that would be interesting to the Trump campaign I’m sure.