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18. Donald Trump Jr

18. Donald Trump Jr

18.1 General

  • 4/25/2017 - Trump Jr retweets Nigel Farage’s pro-lepen tweet. Source
  • 5/17/2017 - Donald Trump JR tweets “Truth.” in response to Geraldo Rivera saying Trump wanting Comey to cut Flynn some slack because “he was a good man”. Source
  • 6/11/2017 - Donald Trump Jr. — the president’s eldest son — seemed to confirm Comey’s version of events in a Saturday interview on Fox News as he tried to emphasize the fact that his father did not directly order Comey to stop investigating Flynn. “When he tells you to do something, guess what? There’s no ambiguity in it, there’s no, ‘Hey, I’m hoping,’" Trump Jr. said. “You and I are friends: ‘Hey, I hope this happens, but you’ve got to do your job.’ That’s what he told Comey. And for this guy, as a politician, to then go back and write a memo: ‘Oh, I felt threatened.’ He felt so threatened — but he didn’t do anything.” Source

18.2. Relationship with Russia

  • 7/27/2016 - Trump Jr. noted that he traveled to Russia six times in 18 months, and “several buyers have been attracted to our projects there and everything associated therewith." Source
  • 11/23/2016 - Donald Trump’s eldest son, emerging as a potential envoy for the president-elect, held private discussions with diplomats, businessmen and politicians in Paris last month that focused in part on finding a way to cooperate with Russia to end the war in Syria. Source
  • 3/2/2017 - Three weeks before Election Day, Donald Trump Jr. left the campaign trail and the country to speak at a private dinner in Paris organized by an obscure pro-Russia group that promotes Kremlin foreign policy initiatives and has since nominated Russian President Vladimir Putin for the Nobel Peace Prize. Source
  • 3/2/2017 – Donald Trump Jr. was likely paid at least $50,000 USD for event held by Hosts allied with Russia on Syria. Source