Donald Trump was offered a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin about one month after he launched his presidential bid, the Washington Post reported, citing an email that it obtained.
Rob Goldstone, a British music promoter, reportedly said he could arrange the meeting after Trump turned down his invitation to travel to Moscow. Goldstone`s client, Russian pop star Emin Agalarov, had wanted Trump to attend his father`s birthday celebration.
"Maybe he would welcome a meeting with President Putin," Goldstone wrote in an email dated July 24, 2015 to Trump`s personal assistant.
There is no indication Trump or his assistant followed up on the offer, the Post said.
Agalarov`s attorney told the Post that the pop star was not aware his publicist dangled the possibility of meeting Putin. Goldstone`s attorney declined to comment.
The publicist reportedly reached out several times to Trump`s inner circle during the elections.
In early 2016, Goldstone contacted Donald Trump Jr. to discuss possibly setting up a web page for Trump`s campaign on VK, the Russian equivalent of Facebook. Later that year, he brokered a meeting between Trump Jr. and Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya, whom he claimed held incriminating information about Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton.
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