"NPR" : President Donald Trump Again Defended His Eldest Son's 2016 Meeting With A Russian Lawyer

In Paris, Trump Defends Son's Meeting With Russian LawyerEnlarge this image toggle caption Markus Schreiber/AP Markus Schreiber/APUpdated at 4:35 p.m. Trump said that his eldest son's June 2016 meeting with Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya, who Trump Jr. had been told had damaging information about Democrat Hillary Clinton, was for opposition research and that "it's very standard in politics." The conference came after a meeting in which Trump and Macron discussed a range of issues, including strengthening security cooperation and trade. ETPresident Trump once again defended his son Donald Trump Jr.'s meeting with a Russian lawyer in the midst of last year's presidential campaign, saying that his eldest son is a "wonderful young man" and that the meeting was one "most people in politics would have taken." Trump's remarks came during a news conference in Paris with French President Emmanuel Macron while Trump is visiting the longtime U.S. ally as part of France's Bastille Day celebration.


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"His reasoning for that is simply that he believes that by him commenting in any way from Russia, it once again will open this debate of Trump, Trump, Russia. Within the hour, Donald Trump Jr. had responded: "Rob thanks for the help. Donald Trump Jr. agreed, adding that he would most likely bring along "Paul Manafort (campaign boss)" and "my brother-in-law," Jared Kushner, now one of the president's closest White House advisers. When first contacted by The Times on Saturday, Donald Trump Jr. portrayed the meeting this way: "It was a short introductory meeting. In the June 3 email, Mr. Goldstone told Donald Trump Jr. that he was writing on behalf of a mutual friend, one of Russia's biggest pop music stars, Emin Agalarov.
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Donald Trump Jr., she said, asked if she had any further supporting documents. Futerfas confirmed that, "for the purpose of security or otherwise, the names were reviewed" but said Trump Jr. knew nothing about the man's background at the time of the meeting. The lobbyist said Veselnitskaya presented the contents of the documents to the Trump team, suggesting it could help the Trump campaign, he said. Veselnitskaya told a slightly different story in her interview with NBC News. Agalarov is a pop star and a client of Rob Goldstone, a music publicist who arranged the meeting with Trump Jr. Agalarov appeared in a music video with Trump when the Miss Universe pageant, which Trump owned at the time, was held in Moscow in 2013.


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