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What’s Missing from the Trump Jr.-Goldstone Emails — and What it Reveals

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The post What’s Missing from the Trump Jr.-Goldstone Emails — and What it Reveals appeared first on WhoWhatWhy.

The recently released emails between Donald Trump Jr. and Trump family friend Rob Goldstone are intriguing to some of us  — because of what is not in them.  


Last Monday’s New York Times headline announced “Trump Jr. Was Told in Email of Russian Effort to Aid Campaign.” The first paragraph of the story said:

“Before arranging a meeting with a Kremlin-connected Russian lawyer he believed would offer him compromising information about Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump Jr. was informed in an email that the material was part of a Russian government effort to aid his father’s candidacy…”

From the headline and the story, you might get the impression that this was the very first email — or communication of any kind — “informing” Don Jr. that Russia was helping his father. And Don Jr. has promoted that impression. 


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Last modified on Wednesday, 19 July 2017 23:46

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