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meeting the following day with Trump Jr.[1] Later that day, Trump Jr. forwarded the entirety of his email correspondence regarding the meeting with Goldstone to Manafort and Kushner, under the subject line "FW: Russia - Clinton — private and confidential," adding a note that the "[m]eeting got moved to 4 tomorrow at my offices."[2] Kushner then sent his assistant a second email, informing her that the "[m]eeting with don jr is 4pm now."[3] Manafort responded, "See you then. P."[4]
Rick Gates, who was the deputy campaign chairman, stated during interviews with the Office that in the days before June 9, 2016 Trump Jr. announced at a regular morning meeting of senior campaign staff and Trump family members that he had a lead on negative information about the Clinton Foundation."[5] Gates believed that Trump Jr. said the information was coming from a group in Kyrgyzstan and that he was introduced to the group by a friend."[6] Gates recalled that the meeting was attended by Trump Jr., Eric Trump, Paul Manafort, Hope Hicks, and, joining late, Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner. According to Gates, Manafort warned the group that the meeting likely would not yield vital information and they should be careful."[7] Hicks denied any knowledge of the June 9 meeting before 2017,"[8] and Kushner did not recall if the planned June 9 meeting came up at all earlier that week.[9]
Michael Cohen recalled being in Donald J. Trump's office on June 6 or 7 when Trump Jr. told his father that a meeting to obtain adverse information about Clinton was going forward.[10] Cohen did not recall Trump Jr. stating that the meeting was connected to Russia.[11] From the tenor of the conversation, Cohen believed that Trump Jr. had previously discussed the meeting with his father, although Cohen was not involved in any such conversation.[12] In an interview with the Senate Judiciary Committee, however, Trump Jr. stated that he did not inform his father about the
- ↑ NOSC0000007-08 (6/8/18 Email, Kushner to Vargas).
- ↑ NOSC00000039-42 (6/8/16 Email, Trump Jr. to Kushner & Manafort); DJTJR00485 (6/8/16 Email, Trump Jr. to Kushner & Manafort).
- ↑ NOSC0000004 (6/8/16 Email, Kushner to Vargas).
- ↑ 6/8/16 Email, Manafort to Trump Jr.
- ↑ Gates 1/30/18 302, at 7; Gates 3/1/18 302, at 3-4, Although the March 1 302 refers to "June 19," that is likely a typographical error; external emails indicate that a meeting with those participants occurred on June 6. See NOSC00023603 (6/6/16 Email, Gates to Trump Jr. et al.).
- ↑ Gates 1/30/18 302, at 7. Aras Agalarov is originally from Azerbaijan, and public reporting indicates that his company, the Crocus Group, has done substantial work in Kyrgyzstan. See Neil MacFarquhar, A Russian Developer Helps Out the Kremlin on Occasion. Was He a Conduit to Trump?, New York Times (July 16, 2017).
- ↑ Gates 3/1/18 302, at 3-4
- ↑ Hicks 12/7/17 302, at 6.
- ↑ Kushner 4/11/18 302, at 8.
- ↑ Cohen 8/7/18 302, at 4-6.
- ↑ Cohen 8/7/18 302, at 4-5.
- ↑ Cohen 9/12/18 302, at 15-16.
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