Kremlin Denies Reaching Out To Trump Jr. Via Moscow-Based Property Developer

Donald Trump Jr. addresses delegates on day two of the Republican National Convention at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, OH, on July 19, 2016. (Photo by Anthony Behar) *** Please Use Credit from Credit Field ***
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MOSCOW (AP) — The Kremlin has denied reaching out to a Moscow-based property developer and his son who arranged a meeting between a Russian lawyer and Donald Trump Jr. to discuss allegedly compromising information about Hillary Clinton.

The emails published by Trump Jr. show publicist Rob Goldstone telling Trump that singer Emin Agalarov and his father, developer Aras Agalarov, had “helped along” the Russian government’s support for Trump. In his email, Goldstone said that the “Crown prosecutor of Russia” offered to provide the information on Clinton to the Trump campaign in a meeting with Aras Agalarov.

Speaking to reporters Wednesday in Moscow, President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov, insisted that the Kremlin has not spoken to Agalarov and has no ties to the Russian lawyer who was at the meeting.

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  1. If the Kremlin openly denies something, you know the opposite must be true…otherwise, they’d be saying bupkis.

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