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Lawyer who met with Donald Trump Jr. was described as part of Russia’s ‘government support for Mr. Trump’

File photo of Donald Trump, Jr. on June 5, 2017.
File photo of Donald Trump, Jr. on June 5, 2017.
(Kathy Willens / Associated Press)
By David S. Cloud
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Reporting from Washington  — 

The Russian attorney with whom Donald Trump Jr. met last summer was described to him as having derogatory information about Hillary Clinton as “part of Russia and its government support for Mr. Trump,” according to emails that the younger Trump released on Tuesday.

“If it’s what you say I love it especially later in the summer,” Trump Jr. responded.

Trump released the emails, a series of messages between him and Rob Goldstone, an entertainment publicist with Russian connections. He did so minutes after the New York Times published them, saying he was acting “to be totally transparent.”

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David S. Cloud

David S. Cloud covered the Pentagon, the military and other national issues from the Washington, D.C., bureau of the Los Angeles Times. In his 30-year career, he has also worked at the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, where he was a member of a team of reporters awarded a 2002 Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the Sept 11, 2001, terror attacks. He is co-author of “The Fourth Star,” which traces the careers and experiences in Iraq of four U.S. officers.

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