THE POP STAR AND THE SCION: Emin Agalarov, left, was at the center of the president’s son’s meeting with Kremlin-tied Russian lawyer
BY ARA KHACHATOURIAN
Donald Trump Jr.’s meetings with a Russian lawyer with reported ties to the Kremlin during the 2016 presidential campaign has become the most recent headline-grabbing revelation since The New York Times reported on it Saturday.
On Tuesday, through a tweet, Trump Jr. posted, what he said was the all of his email communications on the matter, revealing a surprising Baku connection in the person of none other than Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev’s former son-in-law Emin Agalarov and his billionaire father, Aras, a Russian-Azerbaijani real estate tycoon.
In June 2016, President Trump’s eldest son met with the Russian lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya, at the behest of a music publicist and promoter Rob Goldstone, who informed Trump Jr. that she might have damaging information about Hillary Clinton.
In an initial email to Trump Jr. with the subject line, “Russia – Clinton – private and confidential,lâ€
