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Donald Trump Jr.'s Reply to an Offer of Russian Government Aid: ‘I Love It’

The president’s son released a batch of emails on Tuesday documenting that he, Jared Kushner, and Paul Manafort had knowingly met with a woman identified to them as a “Russian government lawyer.”
Source: Jim Young / Reuters

Donald Trump Jr. was told a “Russian government lawyer” wanted to convey information to him that was damaging to Hillary Clinton, because the Russian government wished to aid the presidential campaign of Donald Trump Sr. “If it’s what you say I love it,” he responded, and met with her on June 9, 2016.

That’s according to documents on . The documents () fully vindicate a series of articles in the preceding three days, and contradict Trump Jr.’s previous

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