Rob Goldstone, the British publicist who initiated and attended the June 9, 2016 meeting between Donald Trump Jr. and Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya, reportedly is ready to meet with Special Counsel Robert Mueller.
NBC News says Goldstone has been living in Bangkok, Thailand but communicating with Mueller through his lawyer.
Goldstone's correspondence with Trump Jr. during the 2016 campaign dangled dirt on Hillary Clinton and said the information was part of the Russian government's support for his father. Trump Jr. invited Jared Kushner and Paul Manafort to join him for the meeting with Veselnitskaya, Goldstone, Rinat Akhmetshin, Irakly (Ike) Kaveladze, and a translator.
NBC:
Investigators are trying to determine whether the promised assistance from the Russian government was provided, and whether it was part of what a dossier compiled by a former British intelligence officer called "a well-developed conspiracy of cooperation" between the Trump campaign and Russia.
Veselnitskaya told NBC News she first received the supposedly incriminating information she brought to Trump Tower — describing alleged tax evasion and donations to Democrats — from Glenn Simpson, the Fusion GPS owner, who had been hired to conduct research in a New York federal court case.
A source with firsthand knowledge of the matter confirmed that the firm's research had been provided to Veselnitskaya as part of the case, which involved alleging money-laundering by a Russian company called Prevezon.
Rob Goldstone ready to come to U.S. and talk to Mueller (NBC News)