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Donald Trump Jr. released emails showing he eagerly accepted a meeting pitched as a source of damaging material on Hillary Clinton from a Russian-connected intermediary. The result was an immediate collapse of the earlier public denial and a fresh round of questions about who knew what, when, and how far the campaign was willing to go.
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Donald Trump Jr. released emails showing he eagerly accepted a meeting pitched as a source of damaging material on Hillary Clinton from a Russian-connected intermediary. The result was an immediate collapse of the earlier public denial and a fresh round of questions about who knew what, when, and how far the campaign was willing to go.
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Donald Trump Jr. released emails showing he eagerly accepted a meeting pitched as a source of damaging material on Hillary Clinton from a Russian-connected intermediary. The result was an immediate collapse of the earlier public denial and a fresh round of questions about who knew what, when, and how far the campaign was willing to go.
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