The Azerbaijani-Russian artist and businessman who helped arrange Donald Trump Donald John TrumpUS reimposes UN sanctions on Iran amid increasing tensions Jeff Flake: Republicans 'should hold the same position' on SCOTUS vacancy as 2016 Trump supporters chant 'Fill that seat' at North Carolina rally MORE Jr.'s meeting with a prominent Russian lawyer reportedly said weeks ahead of the meeting that then-candidate Donald Trump winning the presidency would be "an amazing breakthrough."

The Washington Post on Tuesday reported that weeks ahead of the June 2016 meeting Emin Agalarov helped arrange, Agalarov told the newspaper that he wanted Trump to win the presidency.

“I think that’s a very important sentiment, that for the first time in many years, that an American presidential potential candidate wants to be friends with another big empire,” Emin Agalarov told The Post last year.

“This could be an amazing breakthrough if he becomes president and actually becomes friends with Putin,” Agalarov said. “We would avoid 10 wars every year, at least, because these guys really understand that war is not maybe the way to succeed in this.”

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Agalarov and his father, Aras Agalarov, are both business associates of Trump. The older Agalarov worked with Trump to bring the Miss Universe pageant to Moscow in 2013.

In emails released Tuesday, Rob Goldstone, Emin Agalarov's publicist, detailed how both Agalarovs helped set up a meeting between Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya and Trump Jr.

“The Crown prosecutor of Russia met with his father Aras this morning and in their meeting offered to provide the Trump campaign with some official documents that information that would incriminate Hillary and her dealings with Russia and would be very useful to your father,” Goldstone wrote in an email.

“This is obviously very high level and sensitive information but is part of Russia and its government’s support for Mr. Trump – helped along by Aras and Emin.”

Trump Jr.'s email and the meeting have been the subject of controversy in Washington, D.C. since the New York Times first reported the meeting Saturday.

Legal experts say that Goldstone's acknowledgment in emails of the Russian government's "support" for Trump will lead congressional committees and federal investigators to contact him.