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Today, Explained

Don Jr.

Today, Explained

Vox

Politics, Daily News, News

4.310.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2018

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

There used to be one Trump Tower controversy. Now there are two. Donald Trump Jr. is in the middle of both of them. The Washington Post’s David Fahrenthold explains what Don Jr. has been up to. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

David Van Gogh, Washington Post.

0:09.3

There used to just be one Trump tower controversy, but now it seems like they are fully and seriously

0:14.8

two.

0:15.8

Both are somehow linked to Donald Trump Jr., and I'm wondering if you could give us a

0:19.1

tour of both.

0:20.3

They're easy to tell apart in one way because they're in different places.

0:24.4

The first Trump tower we talk about is the one in New York, the one on Fifth Avenue.

0:30.1

That's the one where, and the summer of 2016, Don Jr. famously agreed to meet with a

0:35.5

Russian lawyer who later emerged, was closely tied to the Kremlin, who would come to him

0:40.7

offering what he thought would be dirt on Hillary Clinton's father's political opponent.

0:44.4

There's already been a lot of controversy about that because obviously, the legal under

0:48.1

U.S. law for foreign nationals to offer things of value to presidential campaigns or for

0:52.2

campaigns to accept them.

0:54.0

It's the sort of New York-based Trump tower controversy for Donald Trump Jr.

0:58.4

Well, we're talking more about this week is the non-existent but planned Trump tower

1:03.6

in Moscow.

1:04.9

Trump, senior, had this long-running goal of building some kind of building, some giant

1:09.8

building in Moscow.

1:10.8

It goes back to the 80s, because back to the days of communism.

1:13.4

He was still pursuing it into the presidential campaign into 2016.

1:18.6

We learned from Michael Cohen's guilty plea.

1:20.8

Cohen said in federal court that he lied to Congress.

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