The Russian lawyer who met with Donald Trump Jr. during the presidential campaign denied in an exclusive interview with NBC News that she had any connection to the Kremlin and insists she met with President Donald Trump’s son to press her client’s interest in the Magnitsky Act — not to hand over information about Hillary Clinton’s campaign.
“I never had any damaging or sensitive information about Hillary Clinton. It was never my intention to have that,” Natalia Veselnitskaya said.
Trump Jr. has confirmed that the meeting occurred, saying in a statement to The New York Times that he attended “a short introductory meeting” with the lawyer, where the topic of conversation was primarily about adoption.
On Monday, Trump Jr. seemed to confirm that he had been offered information about Hillary or her campaign but insisted that nothing untoward in the meeting had occurred.
“Obviously I’m the first person on a campaign to ever take a meeting to hear info about an opponent… went nowhere but had to listen,” he tweeted, seemingly sarcastic.
Veselnitskaya explained how she had worked for years to question the case that prompted the U.S. to impose sanctions on Russian officials accused of human rights violations, known as the Magnitsky Act. These sanctions led the Kremlin to ban the adoption of Russian children by Americans at the end of 2012.
Part of the information she put together for her client included details about a company run by a former U.S. citizen. She believes this company didn’t pay taxes in either Russia or the U.S. and may also have made donations to the DNC.
These details are what may have tweaked the interest of Trump’s campaign, she said.
In the meeting, she explained how Trump Jr. asked her just one question.
“The question that I was asked was as follows: whether I had any financial records which might prove that the funds used to sponsor the DNC were coming from inappropriate sources.”
Trump Jr. was asking whether the DNC was dirty or not.
Woooooooooooooooooooo.
Impeach everyone!!
If Donald Trump watched Rocky 4 the NYT would say it’s evidence of Russian collusion
Of course that’s what a Russian lawyer with ties to the Kremlin would say.
Fire Mueller. He was appointed by the Deep State to get Trump impeached if possible, but to derail his agenda at a minimum.
Sessions was insane to permit it to go this far. Stop it now because it is arson that is only going to spread.
The contrast between the obsessive scrutiny that Trump is getting vs
the total ABSENCE of scrutiny of the obvious felon Clinton
tells any observer that the US law enforcement agencies
have reduced themselves to garbage.
Can’t wait to vote for Jr when sr is done then Barron when Jr is done! Go Trumps!
Again, Manafort and Kushner were interrogated about this meeting long ago. Nothing there then, nothing there now. It’s a squirrel pulled out of mothballs to distract from Crooked Comey and Triumphant Trump’s G20 tour de force. Hewie Hewitt was flogging the supine equine again today, asking his guests to comment on the “scandal”. The best he could get was that the Trump team was naive. Forgotten by Friday. Except for CNN, of course.
Ronterf, no dynasties. Nobody wants them. That was part of the message of 2016.
If it was Putin himself, and he had the juiciest information possible can anyone explain to me where this is even unethical let alone illegal?
And since she lives there or has to go back nobody should expect anything short of the truth.
Dhimmicretins are grasping at anything instead of conforming to their oath of office, lock the bastards up!!