'I love it'
US President Donald Trump's eldest son yesterday released emails showing he embraced Russia's efforts to support his father's presidential campaign, and admitting he would "love" to get dirt from Moscow on Hillary Clinton.
The email chain, released in its entirety by Donald Jr on his Twitter account shortly before The New York Times published it, effectively confirms that he believed Moscow was behind the compromising information about Clinton that he hoped to receive at a meeting last year with a Kremlin-connected Russian lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya.
The disclosure places the president's son at the center of a burgeoning scandal involving multiple US investigations into whether Trump associates colluded with Russia last year in its covert efforts to tip the 2016 elections to the Republican billionaire.
He had been told by a friend that the information Ms Veselnitskaya had to offer would "incriminate Hillary and her dealings with Russia and would be very useful to your father". It added: "This is obviously very high level and sensitive information but is part of Russia and its government's support for Mr Trump."
Trump Jr replied a few minutes later: "If it's what you say I love it especially later in the summer."
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