The Brothers Trump
The Political Scene | The New Yorker
The New Yorker
4.3 • 3.9K Ratings
🗓️ 14 July 2017
⏱️ 25 minutes
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John Cassidy talks with Dorothy Wickenden about how the Russia scandal is closing in on the president’s son Donald Trump Jr. and his son-in-law Jared Kushner
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| 1:19.0 | It's Friday, July 14th. I'm Dorothy Wickenden, executive editor of The New Yorker. |
| 1:24.9 | This week, Donald Trump Jr. released email correspondence from June 2016, just after Trump |
| 1:31.7 | secured the Republican nomination, that shows him eagerly agreeing to meet with a Russian |
| 1:37.0 | lawyer who promised dirt from the Russian government on Hillary Clinton. Jared Kushner, |
| 1:42.8 | who oversaw the campaign's digital operations, attended the meeting, |
| 1:47.2 | as did Paul Manafort, the former campaign director. |
| 1:50.9 | It was a year ago this month that Trump claimed he had nothing to do with Putin and encouraged |
| 1:57.1 | the Russians to look into the subject of Hillary Clinton's private emails. |
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