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Undated: Donald John Trump Jr. (born December 31, 1977) is an American businessman and former reality television personality. He is the eldest child of the 45th president of the United States, Donald Trump, and his first wife, Ivana.
Trump Jr. campaigned for his father's presidential campaign. He has faced criticism following the 2017 revelation of a meeting with a Russian lawyer, with the promise of receiving damaging information about the campaign of Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election.[2][3][4] He has also received attention for promoting various conspiracy theories.[5][6]
Trump Jr. currently works with his brother Eric as a trustee and executive director of a trust that was created to oversee all of his father's assets during the latter's presidency, including his family's real estate empire, The Trump Organization.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump_Jr.
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February 14: Eric and Donald Trump, Jr. own a massive private hunting preserve in upstate New York — and neighbors say it sounds like a 'war zone'
Incorporation records filed with the state show that the LLC's articles of organization were filed by a Trump Organization executive based out of Trump Tower and that Trump Jr. designated himself in July 2013 as the company's authorized person. In disclosure reports filed with New York City and obtained by the AP under a public records request, Trump Jr. lists himself as the owner of "DT Leather Hill Road LLC" and Eric Trump lists himself as the owner of "194 Leather Hill Road LLC."
https://www.businessinsider.com/trumps-sons-own-a-huge-hunting-preserve-that-sounds-like-a-war-zone-2018-2
July 11: President Donald Trump's eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., agreed to meet with someone he believed to be a "Russian government attorney" last summer after receiving an email offering him "very high level and sensitive information" that would "incriminate" Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, according to emails the younger Trump publicly released on Tuesday.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/11/politics/trump-jr-russia-lawyer-emails/index.html
October 4: How Ivanka Trump and Donald Trump, Jr., Avoided a Criminal Indictment
In the spring of 2012, Donald Trump’s two eldest children, Ivanka Trump and Donald Trump, Jr., found themselves in a precarious legal position. For two years, prosecutors in the Manhattan District Attorney’s office had been building a criminal case against them for misleading prospective buyers of units in the Trump SoHo, a hotel and condo development that was failing to sell. Despite the best efforts of the siblings’ defense team, the case had not gone away. An indictment seemed like a real possibility.
The evidence included e-mails from the Trumps making clear that they were aware they were using inflated figures about how well the condos were selling to lure buyers.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/how-ivanka-trump-and-donald-trump-jr-avoided-a-criminal-indictment
October 4: Ivanka and Donald Trump Jr. Were Close to Being Charged With Felony Fraud
New York prosecutors were preparing a case. Then the D.A. overruled his staff after a visit from a top donor: Trump attorney Marc Kasowitz.
https://www.propublica.org/article/ivanka-donald-trump-jr-close-to-being-charged-felony-fraud
October 6: Donald Trump Jr. defends father’s Charlottesville comments
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/donald-trump-jr-defends-fathers-charlottesville-comments/
November 13: The Secret Correspondence Between Donald Trump Jr. and WikiLeaks
The transparency organization asked the president’s son for his cooperation—in sharing its work, in contesting the results of the election, and in arranging for Julian Assange to be Australia’s ambassador to the United States.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/11/the-secret-correspondence-between-donald-trump-jr-and-wikileaks/545738/
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March 15: Vanessa Trump, Donald Trump Jr.’s Wife, Files for Divorce
Ms. Trump, 40, is seeking an uncontested divorce to end her 12-year marriage with the president’s son. Mr. Trump, 40, the eldest of five children from President Trump’s three marriages, met his wife, a former model, when his father introduced them at a 2003 fashion show. They married in 2005 at Mar-a-Lago, the family’s club in Palm Beach, Fla. They have five children.
“After 12 years of marriage, we have decided to go our separate ways,” the couple said in a joint statement. “We will always have tremendous respect for each other and our families. We have five beautiful children together and they remain our top priority. We ask for your privacy during this time.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/15/us/trump-jr-divorce-vanessa.html
April 29: Did Donald Trump Jr. Admit to Violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act?
The recently-released Minority report of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) discloses a copy of an e-mail sent by Donald J. Trump Jr., on September 21, 2016, to a group of top Trump campaign officials. The e-mail is interesting because Trump may have confessed in it to committing a federal crime, specifically 18 U.S.C. § 1030(a)(2). It's just a misdemeanor based on the facts we know. But depending on the circumstances, the violation could also be a felony.
https://www.lawfareblog.com/did-donald-trump-jr-admit-violating-computer-fraud-and-abuse-act
May 16: Materials from Inquiry into Circumstances Surrounding Trump Tower Meeting
Donald J. Trump, Jr. (interviewed September 7, 2017)
Transcript
Exhibits
https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/press/releases/materials-from-inquiry-into-circumstances-surrounding-trump-tower-meeting
May 16: Donald Trump Jr.'s meeting with Russian lawyer: What to know
Donald Trump Jr. met with a Russian lawyer in July 2016 after learning she had damaging information about Hillary Clinton, the Democratic opponent of now-President Trump.
But Trump Jr. and other key figures involved in the meeting downplayed the gathering when questioned by Senate investigators.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/donald-trump-jr-s-meeting-with-russian-lawyer-what-to-know
May 16: Unapologetic Trump Jr.: Not troubled that I met with Russian
https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation-politics/senate-panel-releases-interview-transcripts-with-trump-jr/
May 17: Donald Trump Jr. said he couldn’t remember or didn’t know 186 times in his Trump Tower meeting testimony
https://qz.com/1279771/there-are-186-things-donald-trump-jr-says-he-cant-remember-or-doesnt-know-about-the-trump-tower-meeting/
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August 7: The different ways Donald Trump Jr could be in trouble with the law
‘I did not collude with any foreign government and did not know anyone who did,’ said the president’s son. But his participation in the Trump Tower meeting with the Russians, has put that claim under scrutiny
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-jr-mueller-russia-putin-collusion-conspiracy-a8480556.html
September 18: President Trump's eldest son Donald Trump Jr. appeared to make light of new details of allegations of sexual assault against his father's pick to be the next Supreme Court Justice. The social media post comes as Christine Blasey Ford, a professor at Palo Alto University in California, detailed the alleged encounter in the 1980's with Judge Brett Kavanaugh in an interview with the Washington Post. Ford said in her account that Kavanaugh "was trying to attack me and remove my clothing."
Trump Jr. posted a meme on Instagram Monday with the caption "Judge Kavanaugh sexual assault letter found by Dems..." The photo attached shows a crumpled-up piece of notebook paper with a scribbled message: "Hi Cindy will you be my girlfriend, Love Bret." The note, which has boxes to check for "yes" or "no," seemingly compares Kavanaugh's accuser to a school yard crush.
Trump Jr. went on, writing, "Oh boy...the Dems and their usual nonsense games really have him on the ropes now."
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/donald-trump-jr-instagram-post-brett-kavanaugh-christine-blasey-ford-allegations/
September 24: Rob Goldstone wishes he'd never set up that Trump Tower meeting with the Russians
"I'm willing to believe that I don't know who wanted this meeting," Rob Goldstone told NBC's Cynthia McFadden in a wide-ranging interview, in which he also discussed Trump's behavior in Moscow during the 2013 Miss Universe pageant.
Asked if he had conveyed a "dirty offer" to the Trump team in brokering the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting, Goldstone said, "Yes. That is true."
"That [dirt] didn't materialize," said Goldstone, but he believes the apparent willingness of campaign officials to accept dirt is what drew the scrutiny of congressional investigators and special counsel Robert Mueller.
He considered the Russian's presentation "complete and utter nonsense," he said.
Nonetheless, he acknowledged that the candidate's son, Donald Trump Jr., came into the room anticipating — and very happy to accept — "opposition research" he believed was coming from the Russian government.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/rob-goldstone-wishes-he-d-never-set-trump-tower-meeting-n911851
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November 3: Donald Trump Jr. Tweets Out a Neo-Nazi Dog Whistle
Perhaps because they are running scared, the Trump family—and Republicans in general—are going all-in on a campaign of overt racism and white supremacist dog whistles to rally MAGA voters across the country as Tuesday’s midterm elections approach.
On Saturday, Don Jr. tweeted an attack against independent Maine Sen. Angus King that could have come straight from the white supremacist Iowa Republican congressman Steve King. It had the standard fearmongering of the “other,” in this case, Syrian and “Somalian” refugees; it criticized Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer, who is Jewish; and for good measure, it included the dog whistle term “88,” which neo-Nazis use as code for “Heil Hitler.”
And no, it wasn’t a typo.
https://splinternews.com/donald-trump-jr-tweets-out-a-neo-nazi-dog-whistle-1830203784
November 7: Donald Trump Jr. Expecting to Be Indicted by Mueller Soon
Last year, Donald Trump Jr. testified that he never informed his father of a meeting with Russian officials promising “dirt” on Hillary Clinton. It seemed hard to believe that the ne’er-do-well son would neglect to seek credit for his expected campaign coup from the father whose approval he so obviously craves. And now it seems that Robert Mueller has obtained proof that it is not in fact true. The Trump family lies all the time, of course, but doing it under oath is a crime.
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/11/donald-trump-jr-expecting-to-be-indicted-by-mueller-soon.html
November 30: Cohen's Account Of Russia Talks Raises Questions About Trump Jr. 2017 Testimony
https://www.npr.org/2018/11/30/672188201/trump-jr-testimony-and-cohen-account
November 30: Donald Trump Jr. mocks leading Democrats for spreading 'sloppy attempt to smear' him
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/donald-trump-jr-calls-out-lawmakers-for-spreading-sloppy-attempt-to-smear-him
December 4:
Junior's hydroponic lettuce venture ensures the Great American Heist rolls on.
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January 17: ... the president's eldest son had to revise his statement several times after it emerged that he agreed to the meeting after he was offered "dirt" on Clinton. The offer, according to one email Trump Jr. received from the British music publicist Rob Goldstone, was "part of Russia and its government's support" for Trump's candidacy.
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-explanations-russia-contacts-campaign-mueller-2018-9
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