President Trump's associates are looking to special counsel Robert Mueller for help in fending off a lawsuit from the Democratic National Committee over Russian influence in the last presidential election
Jared Kushner, Roger Stone and Trump's Russia-connected real estate contacts have pointed to Mueller's lack of a conspiracy case regarding the Trump campaign and the Russian government as they defend against the lawsuit, which has already outlasted the Mueller probe.Even with Mueller's investigation over, however, the lawsuit could keep questions of Trump's connections to Russia lingering in the court system.
On Monday, two defendants, the Azerbaijani-Russian real estate developer Aras Agalarov and his pop-singer son, Emin, became the first to nod to the Mueller report in the lawsuit. The Agalarovs were in contact with Trump for years as he sought real estate development in Moscow, and they prompted a meeting between Russians and the campaign in June 2016 at Trump Tower with an offer to Donald Trump Jr. of"information that would incriminate Hillary Clinton.
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