Trump Tower Meeting
🔵 Foreign Interference & Disinformation ·
Jun 9, 2016
Summary
Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner, and Paul Manafort met with a Kremlin-linked Russian lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya, at Trump Tower in June 2016 after being promised dirt on Hillary Clinton as “part of Russia and its government’s support for Mr. Trump.” Trump Jr. responded by email, “If it’s what you say I love it, especially later in the summer.” The Mueller investigation examined the meeting as a potential federal campaign finance violation, with Mueller’s report noting prosecutors could not prove “willfulness” to a criminal standard but documenting the campaign’s openness to foreign assistance. The bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee characterized the meeting as a meaningful contact between Russian intelligence interests and the Trump campaign.
Key Figures
Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner, Paul Manafort, Natalia Veselnitskaya, Robert Mueller, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton
Institutions Involved
DOJ, Senate Intelligence Committee
Sources
- Trump Jr. Russia emails prompt new government watchdog complaint
- Report On The Investigation Into Russian Interference In The 2016 Presidential Election
- Report of the Select Committee on Intelligence United States Senate on Russian Active Measures Campaigns and Interference in the 2016 U.S. Election