Jul 09, 2017 · The New York Times broke the story on Saturday, ... “It was a short introductory meeting,” Donald Trump Jr. said in a statement. “I asked Jared and Paul to …
Donald Trump, Jr.'s meeting last summer with a Russian lawyer — far from being a “smoking gun” — actually puts the lie to the media's Trump/Russia collusion narrative. By C. Mitchell Shaw
Jul 09, 2017 · The New York Times reported that Donald Trump Jr., Kushner, and Trump's campaign chairman at the time, Paul Manafort, met with the lawyer at Trump tower on June 9, 2016. Kushner's attorney and ...
Jul 11, 2017 · Veselnitskaya has represented Russian state-owned businesses and the son of a senior government official, according to the New York Times, which broke the story. But in an interview with NBC today...
Jul 13, 2017 · On July 8, the New York Times broke the story that Donald Trump Jr. had arranged a meeting at Trump Tower with a Russian lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya, “who has connections to …
Before Trump Jr. was set to meet with the Russian lawyer as his father campaigned for the presidency, Trump Jr. was told Veselnitskaya’s potentially damning information about Clinton was from the Kremlin, according to emails he released.
Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner and then-campaign chairman Paul Manafort also attended the meeting, along with a translator.
As Trump Jr. does not have a position in his father’s administration, he is not required to disclose foreign contacts, according to The Associated Press.
President Donald Trump’s eldest son and his son-in-law Jared Kushner met with a Russian lawyer with connections to the Kremlin during the presidential campaign, it was reported Saturday.
U.S. intelligence agencies have concluded that Russia was behind a covert plan to try and interfere in the presidential election to try and help Trump win. Russia has repeatedly denied the claims. Trump and other Republicans have claimed the alleged meddling did not affect the election’s outcome.
Kushner attorney Jamie Gorelick confirmed the meeting but called it brief and said he was asked to attend by Trump Jr. Gorelick said that Kushner left the meeting and other meetings off of a national security questionnaire, the SF-86, that was filed prematurely, and has since provided supplemental information including about ...
On July 22, 2016, WikiLeaks released nearly 20,000 Democratic National Committee emails. Two days later, on CNN’s “State of the Union,” host Jake Tapper had this exchange with Trump Jr. CNN’s Jake Tapper, July 24, 2016: Robby Mook, the campaign manager for Secretary of State Hillary Clinton — I asked him about the DNC leak.
on behalf of his father, Aras Agalarov, a Russian real estate developer who has ties to Donald Trump Sr., including his 2013 Miss Universe pageant in Moscow. “The Crown prosecutor of Russia met ...
When first asked about the meeting, Donald Trump Jr. issued a statement saying the meeting was primarily about the adoption of Russian children.
Mr. Trump defended the meeting in a tweet, saying “Most politicians would have gone to a meeting like the one Don jr attended in order to get info on an opponent. That's politics!” About a week earlier, emails between Donald Trump Jr. and Rob Goldstone, a British music producer and publicist who helped broker the gathering, had come to light.
Jay Sekulow, one of the president’s lawyers, said of the initial statement Donald Trump Jr. released about the meeting: “I wasn’t involved in the statement drafting at all, nor was the president.”
Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the White House press secretary: “The president weighed in, as any father would, based on the limited information that he had. He certainly didn’t dictate.”
John M. Dowd and Mr. Sekulow, the president’s lawyers at the time: “The President dictated a short but accurate response to The New York Times article on behalf of his son, Donald Trump Jr.”
In his Sunday tweet, Trump reiterated that he had no advance knowledge of the meeting.