The Russian government said Monday it did not know about a 2016 meeting that occurred between Donald Trump Jr. and a Kremlin-linked lawyer who claimed to have damaging information about Hillary Clinton.
During a conference call with reporters, Dmitry Peskov, spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin, told reporters the Kremlin didn’t know the lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya, who met with Trump Jr. last year.
Veselnitskaya represents business executives with ties to the Russian government.
Peskov said the Kremlin “cannot track all the Russian lawyers in the country and abroad,” according to Tass, Russia’s state-owned news service.
The New York Times reported Sunday that Trump organized a meeting at Trump Tower in June 2016 with Veselnitskaya, who promised she had information about Clinton. Included in the meeting were Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law, and then-campaign chairman Paul Manafort.
Both Kushner and Manafort reported the meeting on revised forms that are required to obtain a security clearance.
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Kremlin denies it knew about Trump Jr. meeting with Russian lawyer https://t.co/3x9M3g4Mgk pic.twitter.com/SUO1ydaJQm
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