WASHINGTON, United States — Donald Trump’s eldest son on Tuesday released emails showing he embraced Russia’s efforts to support his father’s presidential campaign, admitting he would “love” to get dirt from Moscow on Hillary Clinton. US intelligence agencies have concluded that Russian President Vladimir Putin approved a mass effort to tilt the election in Trump’s favor, including hacking and leaking embarrassing emails from Democrats. In the emails released Tuesday, Rob Goldstone — a publicist close to the Trumps — tells Donald Jr that he has learned of a Russian offer of compromising material on Clinton from a pop singer he represented, Emin Agalarov. Donald Jr responded less than 20 minutes later, according to the chain of emails entitled “Russia – Clinton – private and confidential.”“Thanks Rob I appreciate that. A senior White House official denied that there was anything inappropriate about the meeting with Veselnitskaya — and said Trump was under no obligation to have disclosed it earlier.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer July 12, 2017 00:22 UTC