The meeting Rob Goldstone set up and his regrets: https://thinkprogress.org/rob-goldstone-donald-trum-jr-trump-tower-meeting-dirt-eb4d6439068a/
Rob Goldstone: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-45625057
Guardian newspaper, on Goldstone: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jul/11/rob-goldstone-trump-jr-meeting-russian-lawyer
Think Progress has an article about Rob Goldstone (who set up the Trump tower meeting between Donald Trump Jr. and a Russian lawyer) and his regrets. He says, "Though he doesn't know what was said on the calls, Goldstone described it as incredible "to think that this conversation or these conversations could have taken place without discussion of funding, Russian funding, illegal funding, Democrats, Hillary, and it being of use to the campaign.""
The growing list of convictions and 'guilty' pleadings has indicated that people around Donald Trump have skirted the law in numerous ways, but none of those directly touched on Donald Trump in the way as has the Trump Tower meeting between Donald Trump Jr. and a Russian lawyer (representing an oligarch who represents Putin). Now, the man who set up that meeting is saying he doesn't know how they could have had that meeting without discussion of "dirt on Hillary" and Russian government help. When Russian president Vladimir Putin was asked in Helsinki (at a joint press conference with Pres. Trump) if he wanted Trump to wni the presidency or if he had helped the Trump campaign, Putin said, yes, he wanted Trump to win and he had helped them.
The connection is being established around this one meeting. Will there be other provable connections between the Trump campaign and the Russian government (Putin)? So far Robert Mueller has been ahead of the public knowledge, so we will have to wait and see what his investigation reports.
Here's another article about the financial aspect of the "collusion" deal: Follow the money trump tower to russia
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