Donald Trump Jr.’s enthusiastic response to securing potential dirt on Hillary Clinton offered by a Russian government supportive of his father’s then-presidential campaign was reviewed for possible criminal charges by Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s office, the report, made public in a redacted version Thursday, indicated.

Mueller’s team found the series of events—beginning with Trump Jr.’s email featuring the phrase “love it” regarding the possibility of getting Clinton material, and leading to a meeting that included top members of Trump’s campaign and officials with connections to the Russian government at Trump Tower in June 2016—supported “an inference” that the campaign anticipated getting damaging information on Clinton “from official Russian sources that could assist candidate Trump’s electoral prospect,” the report stated.

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