Donald Trump Jr. Was Likely Paid at Least $50,000 for Event Held by Hosts Allied With Russia on Syri

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Source: The Wall Street Journal.

Donald Trump Jr. Was Likely Paid at Least $50,000 for Event Held by Hosts Allied With Russia on Syria

October appearance by son of then-candidate is one of string of contacts between members of the presidents inner circle and individuals connected to Moscow

By Jay Solomon and Benoit Faucon

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March 2, 2017 11:54 a.m. ET

WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trumps eldest son was likely paid at least $50,000 for an appearance late last year before a French think tank whose founder and wife are allies of the Russian government in efforts to end the war in Syria.

Donald Trump Jr. addressed a dinner on Oct. 11 at the Ritz Hotel in Paris, hosted by the Center of Political and Foreign Affairs. Its president, Fabien Baussart, and his Syrian-born wife, Randa Kassis, have cooperated with Russia in its drive to end the Syrian civil war, according to U.S., European and Arab officials. In December, Mr. Baussart formally nominated Russian President Vladimir Putin for the Nobel Peace Prize.

Mrs. Kassis is a leader of a political faction endorsed by Russia in negotiations to end the war in Syria. The couple said they dont represent Russia and are solely focused on ending the Syrian conflict.

The meeting in October represents one in a string of contacts over the past year between members of the presidents inner circle and individuals connected to Moscow and to Russian interests. The Wall Street Journal in November reported Donald Trump Jr.s appearance at the event.*

* https://www.wsj.com/articles/donald-trump-jr-held-talks-on-syria-with-russia-supporters-1479920753

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This article was not pay-per-view the way I got to it, which was via the ALT DOJ Twitter feed.

Hat tip, ALT DOJ: Donald Trump Jr. Likely Paid at Least $50,000 for Event Held by Hosts Allied With Russia on Syria

Link to tweet

#AltGovt Megathread: Unofficial Government Department Twitter Accounts, Updated March 2, 2017
http://www.democraticunderground.com/111679832

[muriel_volestrangler]

1. And what would Trump Jr. know about Syria? Nothing. He was profiting from his relation

to the candidate, and nothing more. Typical family grift.

[ananda]

2. And yet .. looking at his government, this country ..

.. and the world,

it's .. so .. much .. more.

[mgardener]

7. Trump Sr

Doesn't know much either!

[yallerdawg]

3. Seems like Jr. is Deputy Secretary to...

Secretary of State Jared Kushner while CEO Tillerson finalizes dismantling of Russian sanctions and shops for "family enclaves" on Black Sea properties?

[Marthe48]

4. Anti-American Pro-Russian

get the money back, arrest him, try him.

[Sunlei]

5. That's not illegal or even wrong. He gets paid to speak, thats how a lot of people raise money.

It's known a lot of Republicans especially elected Republicans want to 'help' Putin bomb the hell out of, slaughter people in the basements they hide in. Some said they want American boots on the ground.

Now that trump had his first slaughter of woman and babies, other Republicans want in on the slaughter!

[TeamPooka]

8. It's okay to take money from Russia for a speech but not Goldmann Sachs. - GOP Rules

[Sunlei]

12. kind of enjoy the new sideshow as the sons struggle to 'care for' their Fathers 'businesses'

50k 'donation' is not enough after the costs for a lavish weekend begging for the 'donation', airfares, hotels, food. Nothing is left from that 50k. Wonder why the 'friends' of Russia didn't 'donate' a million or two? No more 'easy Russian money' for some reason.

or at the least about 250k. IMO, with charities and non-profits about 250k makes a difference for any large charity or non-profit like a presidents campaign.

IMO, the wealthy Republicans don't like trump family much, they don't donate like he's in the inner-loop at all.

[TeamPooka]

15. If Jr was paid 50k to show up then airfare, hotel and food were comped too. nt

[Sunlei]

16. still 50k is a tiny 'donation', If/when republicans give putin/assad american 'boots on the ground'

in Syria (or anyplace Russia wants) & help exterminate/drive-out the rest of millions of future global refugees, they'll 'donate' much more.

On the positive side, t(R)ump didn't get his way, his sons aren't in our government. They're under constant scrutiny because of their dads new 'job'. They'll have to run those businesses legit.

[murielm99]

6. Remember all those calls for the transcripts of Hillary's

speeches? Is there a transcript of this little shit's speech? We need to start demanding that transcript.

Bernie was out there demanding Hillary's transcripts, too. I will not forget that easily.

[Sunlei]

13. yup, Republicans take a line or two of what D candidates said, once or twice....

Twist the sentence, over-spam, over tweet thousands of times, push on fox&friends 100s of times,make Ds divide & fight on every messageboard, fight over a shallow out of context single line from a campaign speech.

The Republican tactic works, the D party IS weaker divided.

[NewRedDawn]

9. Little Donny Coreleone

Is in my opinion in on the coup with the Russians bigly too.

[lagomorph777]

10. Amazing that Murdoch let the WSJ publish this.

Great stuff.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

11. The Wall Street Journal. and a handful of other newspapers set the gold standard

for print journalism in this country.

The editorial stance of TWSJ. is well known. It takes up the next-to-last page of the first section and the two pages that come before it. There's a banner on the top of those three pages that says "OPINION".

Beyond that, TWSJ. has pages labeled "SPORTS" and "LIFE & ARTS". The second section is "BUSINESS & FINANCE". On Fridays, they'll have real estate. On the weekend, they'll cover fashion. There's a crossword puzzle every day.

It's just like a newspaper. A really good newspaper. Don't be afraid to read it.

Thanks for writing.

[dalton99a]

14. Murdoch knows the value of credibility in the WSJ news pages.

The editorial pages are RW trash.