WaPo: Russian Lawyer Asked To Bring Lobbyist To Meeting With Trump Jr.

[NRaleighLiberal]

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/trump-jr-russian-lawyer-meeting-goldstone-akhmetshin

By SUMMER CONCEPCION and ESME CRIBB Published OCTOBER 9, 2017 2:13 PM

Natalia Veselnitskaya, the Russian lawyer who met with Donald Trump Jr. in July 2016, asked the publicist who arranged the meeting whether she could bring a Russian-American lobbyist, the Washington Post reported Monday.

The Washington Post cited an email provided by a lawyer representing Aras Agalarov, the 51st-richest man in Russia and brought the Miss Universe pageant to Russia in 2013. Agalarov’s lawyer Scott Balber told the Washington Post he was releasing the email to support Agalarov’s claim that the meeting was not part of a Russian effort to elect Trump Jr.’s father as president.

In the email, according to the report, Veselnitskaya asked if she could bring “lobbyist and trusted associate” Rinat Akhmetshin to meet with Trump Jr.

She cited Akhmetshin’s “invaluable knowledge about the positions held by the members of the Foreign Relations Committee that will be important to our discussion” and said he was “working to advance these issues with several congressmen.”

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[procon]

1. And who are these, "several congressmen" who were working with the Russians? nt