probably worth just reading the whole thing but here's some more sketchiness from the trumps. no smoking gun but not looking clean for papa trump either.
https://thinkprogress.org/music-video-trump-russia-kremlin-9bd0bdddf075
President Donald Trump quickly attempted to distance himself from the meeting. A spokesman for Trump’s personal lawyer said he “was unaware of the meeting and did not attend it.”
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Goldstone, in turn, told the Post that “he had arranged the meeting at request of a Russian client.” He refused to disclose the name of the client, but Goldstone is the manager for a Russian pop singer named Emin Agalarov.
Agalarov’s father, billionaire developer Aras, sponsored the 2013 Miss Universe pageant. They’ve both been quite public about their ongoing relationship with Donald Trump and Donald Trump Jr.
Emin included Miss Universe contestants in a music video that also featured Donald Trump.
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He also said that “he and his billionaire developer father, Aras, had plans to build a Trump Tower in Russia that would now likely be under construction had Trump not run for office.” Emin said his family had “signed a letter of intent with their counterparts in New York” to begin work on the tower, but plans were shelved after Trump announced his candidacy.
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While Trump was in Moscow, Aras Agalarov helped organize a private event at Nobu for Trump to “meet more than a dozen of Russia’s top businessmen, including Herman Gref, the chief executive officer of state-controlled Sberbank PJSC, Russia’s biggest bank.”
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Aras Agalarov also appears in the partially unverified Steele dossier on Trump, compiled by a former British intelligence officer.
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The Agalarovs have a close relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin, who awarded Aras the “Order of Honour” in 2013. When Putin was unable to meet with Trump during the Miss Universe pageant, he sent a gift to Trump instead. According to the Daily Mail, “Putin enlisted Aras Agalarov’s daughter, and Emin’s sister Sheila Agalarova, to personally deliver the gift to the Miss Universe offices in New York.”
