Trumps Russian business partner had said his election would be an amazing breakthrough
Source: he Washington Post
Weeks before a Russian father-and-son business team offered dirt on Hillary Clinton to the presidential campaign of Donald Trump, the son, Emin Agalarov, said that Trump’s election would be “an amazing breakthrough” that would forge peace between Russia and the United States.
Agalarov, 37, who is also a Russian pop star, helped broker a June 2016 meeting between Donald Trump Jr. and a prominent Russian lawyer who promised to pass along information damaging to the Clinton campaign, according to emails Trump Jr. released Tuesday.
In April 2016, Agalarov and his father, Aras, told The Washington Post that they wanted Trump to be elected. Trump partnered with the father-and-son developers to bring the 2013 Miss Universe pageant to Moscow, where the duo promised to introduce Trump to Russian President Vladimir Putin. Putin ultimately had to break the engagement, but the Kremlin passed its regrets to Trump through the Agalarovs.
“I think that’s a very important sentiment, that for the first time in many years, that an American presidential potential candidate wants to be friends with another big empire,” Emin Agalarov told The Post in an extensive interview that was part of a wide-ranging look at Trump's international business dealings.
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