Rob Goldstone, the British publicist who helped arrange a meeting between Donald Trump Jr., a Kremlin-linked lawyer and several key members of President Donald Trump’s campaign in June 2016, said he is ready and willing to talk to special counsel Robert Mueller, who is probing Russian interference in the 2016 election.
During an interview with The Sunday Times, Goldstone said he used “hot-button language” when he wrote an email to Trump Jr. last year describing the nature of a proposed meeting with a Russian lawyer and promising incriminating information about then-presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, according to CNN. He said he would voluntarily talk to Mueller in order to set the record straight.
“I’m keen to talk to them and put my recollection of events in the public record,” he said. “After the story initially broke, it seemed to quieten down for a while. But now it’s back in the news with such force, I feel it’s time for me to explain what happened.”
Mueller has been in conversations with Goldson’s lawyers about having him come to the U.S. for an interview, but no date has been set, CNN reported last week.
Goldstone’s emails to Trump Jr. in June 2016 flung the gates of Mueller’s investigation wide open as he, as well as Congressional committees, looked into Russian meddling and whether the Trump campaign worked with Russia to influence the election. In the email exchange, which Trump Jr. posted on Twitter this past summer, Goldstone offered the President’s son a meeting with a “Russian attorney” who had “incriminating” information about Clinton that was being offered as “part of Russia and its government’s support for Mr. Trump.”
Goldstone said he used “puffed up” language to try to get Trump Jr. to agree to the meeting and said he wrote the email in “three minutes. I never thought it would be read by the world.”
I can see him be caught in a lie very quickly.
Anyone want to take wagers that he will wear his “C*NTY” hat when he does?
Yeah, sure, he seems on the level. I’m sure he has no motives other than getting the truth out! I mean, look at his honest face!
The really big news is this article on Mueller issuing a directive to DOJ to turn over a bunch of docs. This happened within the past month, so likely before Mr. Beauregard testified (additional confirmation in my view that Sessions is cooperating with Mueller).
Doc demand includes > emails related to the firing of FBI Director James Comey and the earlier decision of Attorney General Jeff Sessions to recuse himself from the entire matter
They’re looking for communications among DOJ officials about these two matters but also communications between DOJ and the WH. This is a direct move into obstruction of justice by Trump and other WH/DOJ officials.
There’s an aspect to Trump’s long running criticism of Sessions that needs to be highlighted for the purposes of determining his corrupt intent. Trump told reporters once that > he wouldn’t have nominated Sessions to run the Justice Department had he known the attorney general was going to give up oversight authority of the long-running investigation.
What this means to me is that Trump decided to put Sessions into DOJ in the first place because he thought that Sessions was as compromised as Trump regarding the Russian conspiracy. His assumption (thinking like a mob boss) is that it would be in Sessions’ interest to protect himself and Trump and frustrate or shut down attempts to investigate the matter. That’s why Trump is pissed at him.
Goldstone looks like he’s trying to lie or conceal. Bad move. I wonder if he is being set up or pushed by Russian intel to attempt some clean up. The email speaks for itself and the evidence collected since then, including Veselnitskaya’s recent interview with Bloomberg, confirm the accuracy of the words he used to Junior which elicited the now famous “If it’s what you say, I love it!” response.