Trump Team Met With Lawyer Linked to Kremlin During Campaign
Source: New York Times
Two weeks after Donald J. Trump clinched the Republican presidential nomination last year, his eldest son arranged a meeting at Trump Tower in Manhattan with a Russian lawyer who has connections to the Kremlin, according to confidential government records described to The New York Times.
The previously undisclosed meeting was also attended by Mr. Trumps campaign chairman at the time, Paul J. Manafort, as well as the presidents son-in-law, Jared Kushner, according to interviews and the documents, which were outlined by people familiar with them.
While President Trump has been dogged by revelations of undisclosed meetings between his associates and Russians, this episode at Trump Tower on June 9, 2016, is the first confirmed private meeting between a Russian national and members of Mr. Trumps inner circle during the campaign. It is also the first time that his son Donald J. Trump Jr. is known to have been involved in such a meeting.
Representatives of Donald J. Trump Jr. and Mr. Kushner confirmed the meeting after The Times approached them with information about it. In a statement, Donald Jr described the meeting as primarily about an adoption program. The statement did not address whether the presidential campaign was discussed.
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The Russian lawyer invited to the Trump Tower meeting, Natalia Veselnitskaya, is best known for mounting a multipronged attack against the Magnitsky Act, an American law that blacklists suspected Russian human rights abusers. The law so enraged Mr. Putin that he retaliated by halting American adoptions of Russian children.
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Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/08/us/politics/trump-russia-kushner-manafort.html?src=twr&smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur
Boom goes the baby cannon.
PunkinPi
(4,875 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)mobeau69
(11,143 posts)LOL. Yeah, that's the ticket.
DeminPennswoods
(15,285 posts)so adoptions would be legit/plausible, but why would Jr and Jared and Manafort give a hoot about it?
mobeau69
(11,143 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,783 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,939 posts)Getting instructions from their master.
In his statement, Donald Trump Jr. said: It was a short introductory meeting. I asked Jared and Paul to stop by. We primarily discussed a program about the adoption of Russian children that was active and popular with American families years ago and was since ended by the Russian government, but it was not a campaign issue at the time and there was no follow up.
He added: I was asked to attend the meeting by an acquaintance, but was not told the name of the person I would be meeting with beforehand.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)The bus throwing contest officially begins!!!!!
DeminPennswoods
(15,285 posts)All-In
(312 posts)Anyone want to bet against me?
nitpicker
(7,153 posts)riversedge
(70,200 posts)underlings. They viewed it as very important before they went into the meeting.