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Tom Steele

Donald Trump Jr. set to earn $100,000 for speech at Texas college event

DALLAS _ Donald Trump Jr. will be paid $100,000 for his speech Oct. 24 as part of the University of North Texas' Kuehne Speaker Series.

The North Texas Daily obtained contracts between the school and Trump.

According to the documents, Trump _ executive vice president of the Trump Organization _ will give a 30-minute speech followed by a 30-minute question-and-answer session, to which he will be provided the questions in advance. His speaking fee is nonrefundable.

He'll attend a dinner the previous night, a VIP reception before the event and a VIP breakfast the next day, the student newspaper reported. Trump also will receive up to $5,000 in food, lodging and travel accommodations.

Although the Denton university hasn't finalized a contract for the event's venue, Trump's contract indicates it will take place at AT&T Stadium in Arlington.

Trump is the first speaker in the 2017-18 season of the Kuehne series, named for UNT graduate and benefactor Ernie Kuehne and billed as "a forum to engage in conversation about topics of national and global relevance." Fox Business News host Melissa Francis will speak at the Hilton Anatole on March 29.

Previous speakers include former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, oil magnate T. Boone Pickens and former National Security Agency and CIA director Michael Hayden.

The New York Times revealed in July that Trump, the president's eldest son, met with a Kremlin-connected Russian lawyer in 2016, keen on the prospect of getting incriminating information about Hillary Clinton. Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and senior adviser Jared Kushner also attended the meeting.

Trump released emails about the meeting on Twitter "in order to be totally transparent," adding that the meeting occurred "before the current Russian fever was in vogue."

In the emails, entertainment publicist Rob Goldstone says that their mutual friend, Russian pop star Emin Agalarov, and his father, real-estate tycoon Aras Agalarov, had been offered dirt on Clinton as "part of Russia and its government's support for Mr. Trump."

"If it's what you say I love it especially later in the summer," Donald Trump Jr. replied.

The president's son, Kushner and Manafort have all become entangled in special prosecutor Robert Mueller's federal investigation into whether the Trump campaign colluded with Russia in the run-up to the November election.

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