Trump Campaign Met With Lawyer Linked to Kremlin
A new report from The New York Times states that two weeks after Trump won the Republican presidential nomination last year, his eldest son arranged a meeting at Trump Tower in Manhattan with a Russian lawyer who has connections to the Kremlin.
The previously undisclosed meeting was also attended by Trump’s campaign chairman at the time, Paul Manafort, as well as Jared Kushner, according to confidential government records described to The New York Times.
They met at Trump Tower on June 9, 2016 and is the first confirmed private meeting between a Russian national and members of Trump’s campaign team.
The Times reported, “Representatives of Donald J. Trump Jr. and Mr. Kushner confirmed the meeting after The Times approached them with information about it.”
It continued, “In a statement, Donald Jr described the meeting as primarily about an adoption program. The statement did not address whether the presidential campaign was discussed.”
The Russian lawyer Trump and his team met with was Natalia Veselnitskaya.
Veselnitskaya is best known for attacking the Magnitsky Act, an American law that blacklists suspected Russian human rights abusers. Putin was so enraged by that law that he stopped American adoptions of Russian children.
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