May 16, 2018 · Natalia Veselnitskaya, a Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya, who met with Donald Trump Jr. in June 2016, is best known in the US for defending a Russian businessman accused by the US government...
Jul 14, 2017 · He accompanied the lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya, to the June 2016 meeting at Trump Tower attended by Donald Trump Jr.; Jared Kushner, the president's son-in-law; and Paul Manafort, former ...
Sep 13, 2021 · Back in July, 2017, The New York Times broke the story that based on confidential documents the publication had obtained, Jared Kushner and Paul J. Manafort, Trump's campaign chairman at the time, had met with a Russian lawyer during the 2016 campaign. The purpose of the meeting, the documents revealed, was for the campaign to gain exclusive ...
Jul 14, 2017 · The Russian lawyer who met with the Trump team after a promise of compromising material on Hillary Clinton was accompanied by someone else. Former Soviet counter intelligence officer at meeting ...
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.
Fusion GPS has also worked on the campaign to raise questions about the story behind the Magnitsky Act. Alan Futerfas, the attorney retained by Donald Trump Jr., told NBC News two other people accompanied Veselnitskaya to the meeting — someone Futerfas described as a translator and someone he described as a "friend of Emin ...
On April 4, Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, chairman of the Judiciary Committee, wrote a letter to the Homeland Security department seeking information about Akhmetshin, saying that Akhmetshin admitted to having a background in Soviet counterintelligence.
He had been working with Veselnitskaya on a campaign against the Magnitsky Act, a set of sanctions against alleged Russian human rights violators. That issue, which is also related to a ban on American adoptions of Russian children, is what Veselnitskaya told NBC News she discussed with the Trump team.
The lobbyist, first identified by the Associated Press as Rinat Akhmetshin, denies any current ties to Russian spy agencies. He accompanied the lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya, to the June 2016 meeting at Trump Tower attended by Donald Trump Jr.; Jared Kushner, the president's son-in-law; and Paul Manafort, former chairman of the Trump campaign.
Ken Dilanian and Natasha Lebedeva reported from Washington. Hallie Jackson reported from Paris. Ken Dilanian is a correspondent covering intelligence and national security for the NBC News Investigative Unit. Hallie Jackson is senior Washington correspondent for NBC News.
that the meeting would be with a "Russian government attorney" and that the information was "part of Russia and its government's support for Mr. Trump.". Trump Jr. responded enthusiastically, "If it's what you say I love it especially later in the summer.".
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 ...
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.