Donald trump Jr.
Donald trump Jr., son of the incumbent President of the United States, held in June 2016, meet with a lawyer from Russia Natalia Veselnitskaya, hoping to receive from her dirt on Hillary Clinton. On Sunday, July 9, the newspaper the New York Times.
On meeting last year, the NYT reported yesterday. According to the newspaper, it was also attended by head of the presidential campaigns by Paul Manafort trump and Jared Kushner, the son-in-law of the incumbent President.
The paper argues that Veselnitskaya has a “connection with the Kremlin.” Trump Jr. told the newspaper that the meeting, which was held in the Trump Tower skyscraper in new York, Veselnitskaya was unable to confirm she had the presence of dirt on Clinton.
“She claimed to possess information that are associated with Russia people funded the national democratic Committee and was supported by Clinton,” said he.
“Her statements were vague and meaningless. It has not provided and is not proposed to provide any details or supporting the allegations of the information. It soon became clear that she wasn’t important information,” said trump Junior. Then the topic of conversation was the problem of adoption of children from Russia, and “the dirt” was used as a pretext for the meeting, he said
The lawyer of the President of the US, mark Corallo, said the head of state was not informed and was not present at this meeting.
Russia has repeatedly accused of meddling in the US presidential election with the help of hackers. American journalists and officials asserted that they allegedly kidnapped the correspondence of the Democrats, and later posted on the Internet, and tried to penetrate into the electronic system of counting of votes. Moscow denies such accusations. President Vladimir Putin did not rule out that the mysterious hackers could be based in the United States.