What was Anthony Scaramucci talking about in this weird email to Rob Goldstone?

Anthony Scaramucci.
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On Wednesday, the Senate Judiciary Committee released some 2,000 pages of documents related to a highly-scrutinized meeting between President Trump's top campaign officials and a Russian lawyer at Trump Tower in June 2016. Among their number was a rather odd email sent by Anthony Scaramucci — just days after he was appointed as communications director in 2017 — to British publicist Rob Goldstone, who famously arranged the meeting between Donald Trump Jr. and the Kremlin-linked lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya.

Adding to the mystery, Scaramucci sent the email just weeks after news broke about Goldstone offering Trump Jr. in 2016 "some official documents and information that would incriminate Hillary [Clinton]" as "part of Russia and its government's support for Mr. Trump."

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Jeva Lange

Jeva Lange was the executive editor at TheWeek.com. She formerly served as The Week's deputy editor and culture critic. She is also a contributor to Screen Slate, and her writing has appeared in The New York Daily News, The Awl, Vice, and Gothamist, among other publications. Jeva lives in New York City. Follow her on Twitter.