goldstone, rob

=<div><table class="infobox vcard" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); border-spacing: 3px; background-color: rgb(248, 249, 250); margin: 0.5em 0px 0.5em 1em; padding: 0.2em; float: right; clear: right; line-height: 1.5em; width: 22em;"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" style="vertical-align: top; text-align: center;">Rob Goldstone</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" style="vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Rob_Goldstone_in_DC.jpeg" class="image" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><img alt="Rob Goldstone in DC.jpeg" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/Rob_Goldstone_in_DC.jpeg/220px-Rob_Goldstone_in_DC.jpeg" width="220" height="294" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/Rob_Goldstone_in_DC.jpeg/330px-Rob_Goldstone_in_DC.jpeg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/Rob_Goldstone_in_DC.jpeg/440px-Rob_Goldstone_in_DC.jpeg 2x" data-file-width="1238" data-file-height="1655" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" /></a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left; padding-top: 0.225em; line-height: 1.1em; padding-right: 0.65em;">Born</th><td style="vertical-align: top; line-height: 1.4em;">3 December 1960 (age 57)
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitefield,Greater_Manchester" title="Whitefield, Greater Manchester" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Whitefield</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/England" title="England" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">England</a>, UK</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left; padding-top: 0.225em; line-height: 1.1em; padding-right: 0.65em;">Occupation</th><td class="role" style="vertical-align: top; line-height: 1.4em;">Publicist, tabloid journalist</td></tr></tbody></table>Robert Ian Goldstone (born 3 December 1960) is an English publicist, music manager and former <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabloid(newspaper_format)" title="Tabloid (newspaper format)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">tabloid</a> journalist, who gained international attention for his activities during the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,2016" title="United States presidential election, 2016" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2016 US Presidential election</a> campaign.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Goldstone#cite_note-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[1]</a><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">Early life and career[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rob_Goldstone&action=edit&section=1&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Early life and career" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h2>Goldstone was born in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitefield,Greater_Manchester" title="Whitefield, Greater Manchester" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Whitefield</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bury" title="Bury" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Bury</a>, Greater Manchester,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Goldstone#cite_note-MEN13320303-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[2]</a> where his father was a founding member of the Hillock Hebrew Congregation. He attended Delamere Forest School in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheshire" title="Cheshire" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Cheshire</a> and Heys Boys' County Secondary School in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prestwich" title="Prestwich" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Prestwich</a>. He left school at age 16 to become a trainee sports reporter at the Jewish Gazette.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Goldstone#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[3]</a> He then worked for the Radcliffe Times and later for the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birmingham_Evening_Mail" class="mw-redirect" title="Birmingham Evening Mail" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Birmingham Evening Mail</a>,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Goldstone#cite_note-MEN13320303-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[2]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Goldstone#cite_note-GuardGoldstone-4" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[4]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Goldstone#cite_note-BBCGoldstone-5" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[5]</a>While working as a print journalist for the Australian Associated Press (AAP), Goldstone became the only journalist to travel with Michael Jackson on his 1987 Australian BAD tour.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Goldstone#cite_note-MEN13320303-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[2]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Goldstone#cite_note-GuardGoldstone-4" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[4]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Goldstone#cite_note-BBCGoldstone-5" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[5]</a>In 1987 he founded Oui 2 Entertainment, a publicity, marketing and event planning company.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Goldstone#cite_note-BBCGoldstone-5" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[5]</a> Oui 2 clients have included the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Friars_Club" title="New York Friars Club" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">New York's Friars Club</a>, the Madison Square Boys and Girls Club, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steinway%26_Sons" title="Steinway & Sons" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Steinway & Sons</a>, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Tea_Room" title="Russian Tea Room" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Russian Tea Room</a>, and Azerbaijani pop star <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emin_Agalarov" title="Emin Agalarov" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Emin Agalarov</a>. Oui 2 assisted the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Trump_Organization" title="The Trump Organization" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Trump Organization</a> in bringing the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_Universe_2013" title="Miss Universe 2013" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">2013 Miss Universe Pageant</a> to Moscow with Agaralov's father, billionaire <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aras_Agalarov" title="Aras Agalarov" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Aras Agalarov</a>, as host.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Goldstone#cite_note-GuardGoldstone-4" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[4]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Goldstone#cite_note-BBCGoldstone-5" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[5]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Goldstone#cite_note-nytimesGoldstone-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[6]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Goldstone#cite_note-7" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[7]</a><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">Meeting at Trump Tower[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rob_Goldstone&action=edit&section=2&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Meeting at Trump Tower" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h2><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable" style="font-style: italic; padding-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Main article: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_campaign%E2%80%93Russian_meetings#Trump_Tower_meeting,June_9,_2016" title="Trump campaign–Russian meetings" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Trump campaign–Russian meetings § Trump Tower meeting, June 9, 2016</a></div>On 7 June 2016, on behalf of Emin Agalarov, Goldstone emailed <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Donald Trump</a>'s son <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump_Jr." title="Donald Trump Jr." style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Donald Trump Jr.</a>, to request a meeting between Donald Trump Jr. and Russian lawyer <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natalia_Veselnitskaya" title="Natalia Veselnitskaya" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Natalia Veselnitskaya</a> (referred to in Goldstone's email as a "Russian government attorney").<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Goldstone#cite_note-nytimes-read-emails-donald-trump-jr-russia-meeting-8" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[8]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Goldstone#cite_note-nytimes-trump-jr-was-told-in-email-of-russian-effort-to-aid-campaign-9" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[9]</a> According to Goldstone's email, Agalarov wanted to "provide the Trump campaign with some official documents and information" that would help Donald Trump's campaign and damage the campaign of his rival, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_Clinton" title="Hillary Clinton" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Hillary Clinton</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Goldstone#cite_note-nytimes-read-emails-donald-trump-jr-russia-meeting-8" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[8]</a> Trump Jr replied immediately: “If it’s what you say I love it especially later in the summer.”<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Goldstone#cite_note-10" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[10]</a>At the request of Don Jr, Goldstone attended the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_campaign%E2%80%93Russian_meeting" class="mw-redirect" title="Trump campaign–Russian meeting" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">meeting</a>, held on 9 June 2016, at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_Tower" title="Trump Tower" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Trump Tower</a>. The gathering included Trump Jr, Donald Trump's son-in-law, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jared_Kushner" title="Jared Kushner" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Jared Kushner</a>, Trump campaign manager <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Manafort" title="Paul Manafort" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Paul Manafort</a>, Aras Agaralov employee <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ike_Kaveladze" title="Ike Kaveladze" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Ike Kaveladze</a>, Russian lawyer <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natalia_Veselnitskaya" title="Natalia Veselnitskaya" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Natalia Vesilnitskaya</a>. former Russian counterintelligence officer <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rinat_Akhmetshin" title="Rinat Akhmetshin" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Rinat Akhmetshin</a>, and a translator.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Goldstone#cite_note-11" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[11]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Goldstone#cite_note-12" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[12]</a>The existence of the meeting was reported in July 2017. Some news outlets took the meeting as evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russian government.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Goldstone#cite_note-13" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[13]</a>In an interview with the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sunday_Times" title="The Sunday Times" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Sunday Times</a>, Goldstone claimed: “When people said that [I was part of some Russian plot] I thought it was the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard. That doesn't mean that maybe there wasn't any Russian interference or Trump campaign collusion in other ways. I don't know. But I'm sure I wasn't part of it."On 18 December 2017, Goldstone was interviewed by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_Permanent_Select_Committee_on_Intelligence" title="United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">US House Intelligence Committee</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Goldstone#cite_note-14" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[14]</a><div>
</div><div>=</div><div>wiki magnitsky</div><div><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable" style="font-style: italic; padding-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Main article: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_campaign%E2%80%93Russian_meetings" title="Trump campaign–Russian meetings" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Trump campaign–Russian meetings</a></div>In June 2016, a Russian lawyer, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natalia_Veselnitskaya" title="Natalia Veselnitskaya" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Natalia Veselnitskaya</a>, who was hired to lobby against the Magnitsky Act in the US, set up a Trump campaign–Russia meeting with Donald Trump, Jr., purportedly to discuss altering the Russian Duma's sanctions against American adoption of Russian children along with other alleged illegal activities. On July 11, 2017, Reuters US reported that at the meeting "[Russia] offered to provide the Trump campaign with some official documents and information that would incriminate Hillary [Clinton] and her dealings with Russia and would be very useful to [Trump Jr.'s] father".<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnitsky_Act#cite_note-30" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[30]</a> Donald Trump Jr. insisted that Veselnitskaya did not reveal any damaging information about Secretary Clinton, contrary to what his correspondence had suggested. Trump Jr. subsequently released to the public via Twitter his personal records and correspondence between the Trump campaign team and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Goldstone" title="Rob Goldstone" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Rob Goldstone</a>, a longtime business partner and friend of Trump Sr. who actively represents several Russian interests and who had first pitched the meeting to Trump Jr.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnitsky_Act#cite_note-31" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">[31]</a></div><div>==</div></div>