Report: Son of Trump was promised dirt on Clinton
Donald Trump WASHINGTON Jr.’s meeting with a Russian lawyer came after he was promised information damaging to Hillary Clinton, The New York Times reported Sunday.
The meeting during the presidential campaign last year also was attended by then-campaign manager Paul Manafort and the president’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, according to the Times.
It is unclear if the lawyer who has ties to the Kremlin, Natalia Veselnitskaya, provided any compromising information, the newspaper reported.
The Times, citing interviews with anonymous sources and confidential documents, said the meeting took place at Trump Tower in New York on June 9, 2016, two weeks after Donald Trump clinched the Republican nomination.
The president’s eldest son told the newspaper in a statement that during the meeting Veselnitskaya said “she had information that individuals connected to Russia were funding the Democratic National Committee and supporting Ms. Clinton.”
But Donald Trump Jr. said “her statements were vague, ambiguous and made no sense. No details or supporting information was provided or even offered. It quickly became clear that she had no meaningful information.”
He said the meeting then turned to adoption and an American law that blacklisted suspected human rights abusers, which prompted Russian President Vladimir Putin to stop American adoptions of Russian children.