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A Lesson for HNA From Donald Trump Jr.
An effort to answer questions on ownership raises new ones.
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Does HNA Group Co. hope that the latest disclosures about its ownership structure will dispel the concerns of Western bankers? If so, the misadventures of Donald Trump Jr. provide a cautionary tale.
The U.S. president's son this month released copies of emails in which he was offered purported information damaging to Hillary Clinton as "part of Russia and its government's support" for his father's election campaign. He released the copies "in order to be totally transparent," he wrote on Twitter -- but if he hoped it would make questions about his meeting with a Russian lawyer go away, he was mistaken.