MONGOLIA: Junior Shoots Endangered Sheep, Meets With President, Gets Retroactive Permission For Slaying

ProPublica reports:

The rocky highlands of Central Asia, in a remote region of Western Mongolia, are home to a plummeting population of the largest sheep in the world, the argali. The endangered species is beloved for its giant curving horns, which can run over 6 feet in length.

On a hunting trip this August, Donald Trump Jr. shot and killed one. His adventure was supported by government resources from both the U.S. and Mongolia, which each sent security services to accompany the president’s eldest son and grandson on the multiday trip.

Afterward, Trump Jr. met privately with the country’s president. The Mongolian government granted Trump Jr. a coveted and rare permit to slay the animal retroactively on Sept. 2, after he’d left the region following his trip. It’s unusual for permits to be issued after a hunter’s stay.

Argali sheep are beautiful and deeply endangered. They live in remote western Mongolia.

Don Jr. went there and shot one.

How’s he do that? He got a permit from Mongolia *after his trip.*

And oh, he hung with Mongolia’s president. https://t.co/1aZWHoESPE

— Eric Umansky (@ericuman) December 11, 2019

Don Jr. reportedly killed a rare, endangered sheep on a summer hunting trip to Mongolia, and the government there retroactively OK’d it https://t.co/79DTUHBq7g

— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) December 11, 2019

Why yes, we do go to Mongolia and meet the guides who helped Don Jr. slaughter an endangered sheep.

Listen: https://t.co/6ft4rfp3wX

— Eric Umansky (@ericuman) December 11, 2019