Aug 06, 2018 · Trump (Again) Admits His Son Met With Russian Lawyer To Get Dirt On Clinton In a tweet, the president defended Donald Trump Jr.'s 2016 meeting with a Kremlin-aligned lawyer as "totally legal ...
The Times identified the Russian lawyer as Natalia Veselnitskaya, and the Washington Post reported that the intermediary who set up the meeting between her and Trump Jr. was Rob Goldstone, a music publicist.
In a previous version of this story, a passage from The New York Times misquoted Donald Trump Jr.'s statement as saying the Russian adoption issue "was a campaign issue at the time." The Times has since corrected the quotation to read it "was not a campaign issue at the time."