The Trump Organization is demanding that the New York Times pull a story it claims is “libelous” and was created to suggest questionable financial behaviors from the Trump family.
“Your June 28 article is deeply misleading and appears deliberately crafted to create the false impression that Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump were involved in, or sought to influence, the decision to award the Kazakhstan tungsten mine project to an affiliate of Cove Capital,” Trump Organization attorney Alan Garten wrote in a letter to The Times, Fox News exclusively reports. “As your own reporting and interviews with those involved all clearly demonstrate, that implication is demonstrably false.”
“Don and Eric exercise no control over either company, played no role in and no knowledge of Cove Capital’s pursuit of the Kazakhstan project, participated in no negotiations relating to the project, and never even discussed the Kazakhstan project with anyone at Skyline, Cove Capital or any of their respective affiliates,” the Trump Organization added, further declaring that its “connection to Cove Capital is therefore remote, indirect and highly attenuated.”
“Based upon the foregoing, we demand that The New York Times promptly retract or prominently correct the false and misleading impression created by the article and ensure that any future reporting accurately reflects the undisputed facts, including that Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump had no operational role in any of the entities involved, no involvement whatsoever in the Kazakhstan project or its negotiations, and, as a matter of indisputable chronology, could not have influenced the award of the project,” Garten asserted.
The letter is addressed to editor-in-chief Joseph Kahn.
A spokesperson for the publication told Fox News that the Trump Organization has not denied the story’s main point, which they said was that “Eric and Donald Jr. have profited from the U.S.-Kazakh tungsten mining agreement.”
