CNN video shows Trump with figures linked to Russia email controversy
VIDEO has emerged of Donald Trump at a 2013 dinner with key figures in a growing controversy over alleged Russian interference in the election.
VIDEO has emerged of Donald Trump at a 2013 dinner with key figures at the centre of a growing controversy over alleged Russian interference in the US presidential election.
The video, obtained by CNN, was shot on June 15, 2013 on the eve of the Miss USA pageant, according to the network, which described it as offering “fresh insights into the warm relationship” between Trump and the Azerbaijani-Russian Agalarov family.
It shows the future US president in animated conversation with billionaire Aras Agalarov, his popstar son Emin and Emin’s publicist Rob Goldstone.
Goldstone’s email exchange with Trump’s eldest son Donald Jr has been described in some quarters as a possible “smoking gun” in the ongoing investigation into whether the Republican’s campaign colluded with Moscow to get him elected.
Donald Trump Jr released emails on Tuesday in which he was told by Goldstone he could get “very high level and sensitive information” that was “part of Russia and its government’s support for Mr. Trump.”
In response, the 39-year-old, who runs the family real estate business, wrote back saying, “if it’s what you say I love it.”
He then held a meeting with Natalia Veselnitskaya, a woman described in the emails as a “Russian government lawyer.”
In the clip, Trump expresses hope that the Miss Universe pageant, which he brought to Russia that year under a deal with the Agalarovs, would help bilateral ties.
“It really is a great country. It’s a very powerful country that we have a relationship with, but I would say not a great relationship, and I would say this can certainly help that relationship.”
It also shows Trump standing with Emin and his father, and Trump heaping praise on them, telling the media, “these are the most powerful people in all of Russia. The richest men in Russia.”
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