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2002.12.29A man smashes a glass over Donald Trump Jrs. head at a comedy club after he reportedly got into an argument over "ethnic humor" and then splashed a woman with his beer. nypost.com
2012.07.20Donald Trump Jr. responds to recording of witness describing the Aurora Colorado Movie Theater Shooting with, “Well overall, I give the movie two thumbs up!” huffingtonpost.com
2016.10.11Donald Trump Jr. likely paid $50K for event hosted by Russian allies. thehill.com (See also Russia)
2016.11.21Trump's kids are his closest advisors. fortune.com (See also Eric Trump, Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner, Conflicts of Interest)
2016.11.23Donald Trump Jr. held talks on Syria with Russia supporters. wsj.com (See also Conflicts of Interest, Nepotism, Russia, Syria, Trump Relationship with Russia)
2016.12.20Eric and his brother Donald Trump Jr announce "Camouflage and Cufflinks" fundraiser in which they are selling access to themselves (for $500,000) during a hunting trip and (for $1 million) access to their father. politico.com (See also Eric Trump, Corruption)
2017.01.11Trump announces that his two eldest sons, Donald Jr. and Eric Trump, will control his sprawling real estate business. forbes.com (See also Eric Trump, The Trump Organization, Conflicts of Interest)
2017.03.04Trump sons plan new hotel chain that would extend the company’s reach into dozens of cities, including locations where the Trumps made connections during their White House bid. washingtonpost.com (See also Conflicts of Interest, Eric Trump, Trump Business)
2017.04.04Donald Trump Jr. says that he wants conspiracy theorist Mike Cernovich to win the Pulitzer Prize. theweek.com
Mike Cernovich of Pizzgate fame has previously made statements such as claiming that date rape doesn't exist and accusing the Democratic Party of attempting to assassinate him.
2017.06.13Since Trump won the Republican nomination, the majority of his companies' real estate sales are to secretive shell companies that obscure the buyers' identities. usatoday.com (See also Corruption, Unpresidential Behavior, Eric Trump, Conflicts of Interest, Legal Activity)
Profits from sales of those properties flow through a trust run by Trump's sons. Trump is the sole beneficiary of the trust and can withdraw cash at any time.
2017.07.09Donald Trump Jr. was promised damaging information about Hillary Clinton before agreeing to meet with a Kremlin-connected Russian lawyer during the 2016 campaign. nytimes.com (See also Russia, Jared Kushner, 2016 Campaign, Russian Meddling in Election, Corruption)
The meeting was also attended by Paul J. Manafort and Jared Kushner, who only recently disclosed the meeting.
2017.07.11The June 3, 2016, email sent to Donald Trump Jr. could hardly have been more explicit: One of his father’s former Russian business partners had been contacted by a senior Russian government official and was offering to provide the Trump campaign with dirt on Hillary Clinton. The documents “would incriminate Hillary and her dealings with Russia and would be very useful to your father." nytimes.com (See also Russia, Russian Meddling in Election, Corruption)
He replied within minutes: “If it’s what you say I love it especially later in the summer.”
2017.07.12Democratic members of the House Judiciary Committee sent a letter to Attorney General Jeff Sessions asking why the DOJ settled a major money-laundering case involving a real-estate company owned by the son of a powerful Russian government official whose lawyer (Natalia Veselnitskaya) met with Donald Trump Jr. last year. businessinsider.com (See also Corruption, Jeff Sessions, Trump Relationship with Russia)
2017.07.13Donald Trump lied today about how Natalia Veselnitskaya entered the United States to meet with his son, campaign manager, and son-in-law. buzzfeed.com (See also Russian Meddling in Election, Trump Relationship with Russia, Jared Kushner, Assaults on Facts)
2017.07.14The Russian lawyer who met with Donald Trump Jr. and others on the Trump team after a promise of compromising material on Hillary Clinton was accompanied by a Russian-American lobbyist — a former Soviet counterintelligence officer who is suspected by U.S. officials of having ongoing ties to Russian intelligence. nbcnews.com (See also Russian Meddling in Election, Jared Kushner, Corruption)
2017.07.14The former Soviet intelligence officer who attended the now-infamous meeting with Donald Trump Jr. and other top campaign officials last June was previously accused in federal and state courts of orchestrating an international hacking conspiracy. thedailybeast.com (See also Jared Kushner, Russian Meddling in Election, 2016 Campaign)
2017.07.15A prominent Russian-American lobbyist and former Soviet military officer attended the meeting with Donald Trump’s son, son-in-law and campaign chairman last year, adding a new wrinkle to the Trump team’s evolving explanations about the June 2016 session, as this wasn't previously disclosed. apnews.com (See also Jared Kushner, Russian Meddling in Election, Corruption, 2016 Campaign)
2017.07.21The Russian lawyer who met Donald Trump Jr. after his father won the Republican nomination for the 2016 U.S. presidential election counted Russia's FSB security service among her clients for years. reuters.com (See also Russia, Trump Relationship with Russia, Russian Meddling in Election, Jared Kushner)
2017.07.31Trump dictated his son’s misleading statement on meeting with Russian lawyer. washingtonpost.com (See also Legal Activity, Russian Meddling in Election)
2017.08.01Here are all the misleading statements made so far about Trump Jr.'s meeting with the Russians. buzzfeed.com (See also Trump Relationship with Russia, 2016 Campaign)
2017.08.18Federal prosecutors working for special counsel Robert Mueller are focusing keenly on the president’s son Donald Trump Jr. and are trying to determine his intent when he attended a controversial June 9, 2016, meeting with a Russian lawyer. buzzfeed.com (See also Russian Meddling in Election, Trump Relationship with Russia, Russia)
2017.09.07Donald Trump Jr. said he was open to receiving information about Hillary Clinton's "fitness, character or qualifications" when he accepted a meeting with a Russian lawyer last year in his opening statement of about 15 to 20 minutes before taking questions behind closed doors from staff members of the Senate Judiciary Committee latimes.com (See also 2016 Election, Russian Meddling in Election, Trump Relationship with Russia)
2017.09.18Donald Trump Jr., the president’s eldest son, has elected to forgo protection by the Secret Service, as has Kellyanne Conway. nytimes.com
2017.10.04Ivanka and Donald Trump Jr were going to be charged with felony fraud in 2012, until the District Attorney overruled his staff after a visit from a top donor: Trump attorney Marc Kasowitz propublica.org (See also Criminality, Corruption, Ivanka Trump)
2017.10.09A newly disclosed email sent on the morning of a Trump Tower meeting held during last year’s presidential campaign between Donald Trump Jr. and a Russian could offer evidence backing up the Russian lawyer’s claims that she was meeting with Trump Jr. solely to discuss a 2012 law despised by the Kremlin that imposed financial sanctions on wealthy Russians as punishment for human rights abuses. washingtonpost.com (See also Russian Meddling in Election, Trump Relationship with Russia)
2017.10.18Some of the Trump campaign’s most prominent names and supporters, including Trump’s campaign manager, digital director, Kellyanne Conway, and Donald Trump Jr., pushed tweets from professional trolls paid by the Russian government in the heat of the 2016 election campaign. thedailybeast.com (See also 2016 Campaign, Russian Meddling in Election, Trump Relationship with Russia)
2017.10.27The information that a Russian lawyer brought to a June 2016 meeting with Trump campaign aides had been discussed with a top Russian government official at the Kremlin. nytimes.com (See also Russia, Russian Meddling in Election, Trump Relationship with Russia)
2017.10.30Trump’s eldest son, Donald Jr., is expected to launch two residential projects in India for the Trump Organization in the coming weeks, continuing the family’s promotion of the Trump empire despite concerns over the president’s potential conflicts of interest with foreign governments, and a vow early on there would be “no new foreign deals” during Trump’s tenure as president. washingtonpost.com (See also Conflicts of Interest, Trump Business)
2017.11.06A Russian lawyer who met with President Donald Trump’ Jr. last year says he indicated that a law targeting Russia could be re-examined if his father won the election and asked her for written evidence that illegal proceeds went to Hillary Clinton’s campaign. bloomberg.com (See also Russian Meddling in Election, Trump Relationship with Russia)
2017.11.13Donald Trump Jr. exchanged private messages with WikiLeaks during the presidential campaign at the same time the website was publishing hacked emails from Democratic officials. washingtonpost.com (See also 2016 Campaign, Conflicts of Interest, Legal Issues)
2017.11.13Donald Trump tweeted about the hacked emails of then-Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta approximately 15 minutes after WikiLeaks requested his son Donald Trump Jr. to do so. thehill.com (See also Corruption, 2016 Campaign)
2017.11.18Earlier this year, a Russian-American lobbyist and another businessman discussed over coffee in Moscow an extraordinary meeting they had attended 12 months earlier: a gathering at Trump Tower with President Donald Trump’s son, his son-in-law and his then-campaign chairman. apnews.com (See also Trump Relationship with Russia, Jared Kushner, 2016 Campaign)
2017.11.18White House senior adviser Jared Kushner told congressional Russia investigators that he did not communicate with WikiLeaks and did not recall anyone on the Trump campaign who had, but Kushner did receive and forward an email from Donald Trump Jr. about contact Trump Jr. had with WikiLeaks. cnn.com (See also Legal Issues, Jared Kushner, Russian Meddling in Election)
2017.12.06Donald Trump Jr. asked a Russian lawyer at the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting whether she had evidence of illegal donations to the Clinton Foundation, the lawyer told the Senate Judiciary Committee in answers to written questions. nbcnews.com (See also Russian Meddling in Election, 2016 Campaign, Legal Issues)
2017.12.06Donald Trump Jr., while being interviewed privately by the House Intelligence Committee following disclosures that Democrats say must be explored in the probe of possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia before the 2016 election, said that he couldn't answer questions about what he told his father after a controversial meeting with a Russian lawyer in June 2016, citing attorney-client privilege. bloomberg.com (See also Russian Meddling in Election, Trump Relationship with Russia, False Statements)
That's not how attorney-client privilege works.
2017.12.07An executive at a leading Russian social media company made several overtures to Donald Trump’s presidential campaign in 2016 — including days before the November election — urging the candidate to create a page on the website to appeal to Russian Americans and Russians. washingtonpost.com (See also Russian Meddling in Election, Russia, 2016 Campaign)
Dan Scavino, the White House social media director, expressed interest in learning more, and Donald Trump Jr. forwarded a pitch about the concept to Scavino.
2017.12.07The British publicist who arranged the June 2016 meeting with Russians and Donald Trump Jr. sent multiple emails to a Russian participant and a member of Donald Trump's inner circle later that summer, the first indication there was any follow-up after the meeting. cnn.com (See also Russian Meddling in Election, Trump Relationship with Russia, False Statements, 2016 Campaign)
2017.12.08Candidate Donald Trump, his son Donald Trump Jr. and others in the Trump Organization received an email in September 2016 offering a decryption key and website address for hacked WikiLeaks documents, according to an email provided to congressional investigators. cnn.com (See also Russian Meddling in Election, Trump Relationship with Russia, 2016 Campaign)
2017.12.13Donald Trump Jr. met with the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee for 9 hours, as part of the panel’s investigation into Russia, the 2016 U.S. election and whether his father’s election campaign colluded with Moscow. reuters.com (See also Legal Issues, Trump Relationship with Russia, Russian Meddling in Election, 2016 Campaign, 2016 Election)
2018.01.12More than one-fifth of Donald Trump’s US condominiums have been purchased since the 1980s in secretive, all-cash transactions that enable buyers to avoid legal scrutiny by shielding their finances and identities. buzzfeed.com (See also Trump Business, Criminality, Ivanka Trump, Eric Trump, Department of the Treasury, Trump Relationship with Russia)
More than 1,300 Trump condominiums were bought by shell companies, without a mortgage, which are key characteristics that the buyer is laundering money.
2018.01.15Sixty-four trade groups, foreign governments, Republican candidates and others stayed at or held events at properties linked to Donald Trump during his first year in office, representing "unprecedented conflicts of interest" because Trump has not divested from properties he owns or that carry his name. reuters.com (See also Conflicts of Interest, Eric Trump)
2018.02.19The president’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., is making what has been dubbed an unofficial visit to India to promote his family’s real estate projects, but he’s also planning to deliver a foreign policy speech on Indo-Pacific relations at an event with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. washingtonpost.com (See also Conflicts of Interest, Nepotism, Trump Business)
2018.03.12Donald Trump Jr. has a previously undisclosed business relationship with a longtime hunting buddy who helped raise millions of dollars for his father’s 2016 presidential campaign and has had special access to top government officials since the election. apnews.com (See also Corruption, Conflicts of Interest, Department of the Interior, Ryan Zinke)
2018.05.19Three months before the 2016 election, a small group gathered at Trump Tower to meet with Donald Trump Jr., the president’s eldest son: an Israeli specialist in social media manipulation, an emissary for two wealthy Arab princes, and a Republican donor with a controversial past in the Middle East as a private security contractor. nytimes.com (See also Israel, Russia, Legal Issues, 2016 Campaign, Russian Meddling in Election)
The meetings are the first indication that countries other than Russia may have offered assistance to the Trump campaign.
2018.06.14The New York attorney general filed suit against Donald Trump and his three eldest children Thursday, alleging “persistently illegal conduct” at the president’s personal charity, saying Trump repeatedly misused the nonprofit organization — to pay off his businesses’ creditors, to decorate one of his golf clubs and to stage a multimillion-dollar giveaway at his 2016 campaign events. washingtonpost.com (See also Corruption, Criminality, Legal Activity, Ivanka Trump)
Oversight of spending at Trump's foundation was so loose that its board of directors hadn't met in 19 years, and its official treasurer wasn't even aware that he was on the board.
2018.07.16A Russian woman who tried to broker a pair of secret meetings between candidate Donald J. Trump and the Russian president, Vladimir V. Putin during the 2016 presidential campaign, and met with Donald Trump Jr., was charged Monday and accused of carrying out a secret Russian effort to influence American politics. nytimes.com (See also Russia, Russian Meddling in Election, 2016 Campaign, Criminality)
2018.08.05Donald Trump tweeted that a Trump Tower meeting between top campaign aides and a Kremlin-connected lawyer was designed to “get information on an opponent” — the starkest acknowledgment yet that a statement he dictated last year about the encounter was a lie. nytimes.com (See also Reversals, Criminality, Trump Relationship with Russia, 2016 Campaign, False Statements)
The tweet also served as an admission that the Trump team had not been forthright when Donald Trump Jr. issued a statement in July 2017 saying that the meeting had been primarily about the adoption of Russian children.
2018.09.17Donald Trump Jr. posted a fake letter on Instagram to his 1.3 million followers yesterday titled, “Judge Kavanaugh’s sexual assault letter found by Dems.” gizmodo.com (See also Women, Misogyny, Supreme Court)
The letter, written in crayon, is in the style of something you might see an elementary school kid send to his crush, with “will you be my girlfriend” and boxes marked “yes” and “no.”
2018.10.17Donald Trump claims he only licensed his name for real estate projects developed by others. But an investigation of a dozen Trump deals shows deep family involvement in projects that often involved deceptive practices. features.propublica.org (See also Trump Business, Ivanka Trump, Criminality)
2018.10.28Trump’s Corruption: The Definitive List: Donald Trump, his family and more than a few of his appointees are using his presidency to enrich themselves, spending taxpayer dollars for their own benefit, accepting sweetheart deals from foreigners, and they are harnessing the power of the federal government on behalf of their businesses. nytimes.com (See also Corruption, Trump Business, Jared Kushner, Conflicts of Interest)
2018.10.29A new lawsuit accuses Donald Trump, his company and three of his children of using the Trump name to entice vulnerable people to invest in sham business opportunities. nytimes.com (See also Trump Business, Ivanka Trump, Legal Activity)
2018.11.23A New York state judge rejected Donald Trump’s request to dismiss a lawsuit in which New York’s attorney general accused him of misusing his namesake foundation to advance his 2016 presidential campaign and his businesses. reuters.com (See also Corruption, Trump Business, Ivanka Trump, Eric Trump, Legal Activity)
The judge said that the US Constitution did not immunize Trump from the lawsuit, and prosecutors could pursue claims alleging breach of fiduciary duty, improper self-dealing, and misuse of assets belonging to the Donald J. Trump Foundation.
2018.11.25The FBI has obtained secret wiretaps collected by Spanish police of conversations involving Alexander Torshin, a deputy governor of Russia’s Central Bank who has forged close ties with U.S. lawmakers and the National Rifle Association, that led to a meeting with Donald Trump Jr. during the gun lobby’s annual convention in Louisville, Ky., in May 2016. yahoo.com (See also Russian Meddling in Election, Legal Issues)
2018.11.28Donald Trump told special counsel Robert Mueller in writing that Roger Stone did not tell him about WikiLeaks, nor was he told about the 2016 Trump Tower meeting between his son, campaign officials and a Russian lawyer promising dirt on Hillary Clinton, according to two sources familiar with the matter. cnn.com (See also Russian Meddling in Election, Legal Activity, 2016 Campaign)
2018.12.09Thirteen damning, detailed things that we already know about Donald Trump, Russia, and the 2016 election. axios.com (See also Russian Meddling in Election, 2016 Election, Jared Kushner)
2018.12.18Donald Trump has agreed to shut down his embattled personal charity and to give away its remaining money amid allegations that he used the foundation for his personal and political benefit. washingtonpost.com (See also Trump Business, Criminality, Corruption, Legal Activity, Eric Trump, Ivanka Trump, 2016 Campaign)
The agreement with the New York attorney general comes amid an ongoing lawsuit against the charity and Trump and his three eldest children, who allegedly allowed “persistently illegal conduct” at the foundation.