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Trump Jr. confirms meeting Russian lawyer in father's oblivity

by IBNS 12 Jul 2017, 11:30 am

Washington, Jul 12 (IBNS): Things just got a bit hot for Donald Trump following his son's confirmation that the latter met a Russian lawyer but the son said that his father had no knowledge about the meeting.

In an interview with Fox News on Tuesday, Trump Jr. said that it was a 'nothing' meeting.

"No. It was just a nothing. There was nothing to tell," he told the show's host Sean Hannity when the latter asked Trump Jr.  if the US President was informed about the same.

"I mean, I wouldn't have even remembered it until you started scouring through this stuff. It was literally just a wasted 20 minutes, which was a shame," he added.

The new revelation is expected to cause embarrassment to Donald Trump and the US government who have faced allegation of a possible Russia link and the country's meddling in the US Presidential elections, which took place last year.

The aforementioned meeting took place in June 2016 and involved Donald Trump Jr., his brother in-law Jared Kushner and Trump's campaign chairman Paul Manafort, who met Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya at Trump Tower in New York.

However, Trump Jr. said that in hindsight he would have handled the matter differently.

"This is before the Russia mania, this is before they were building this up in the press. For me this was opposition research, they had something you know maybe concrete evidence to all the stories I'd been hearing about," he said.

"Someone sent me an email. I can't help what someone sends me. I read it, I responded accordingly, and if there was something interesting there, I think that's pretty common," he added.

Meanwhile, contrary to claims that Veselnitskaya had links to Kremlin, she said that she neither possessed such documents which could have destroyed the former First Lady of the State Hillary Clinton nor had a link with the Russian government.