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Russian Lawyer Who Met Trump Campaign Had Kremlin Talking Points

HeadlineOct 30, 2017

Meanwhile, The New York Times reports Russia’s government provided a memo to a Russian lawyer ahead of her June 2016 meeting in Trump Tower with Trump campaign officials. The meeting, which was attended by Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner, Paul Manafort and others, came after the lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya, promised damaging information on Hillary Clinton in an attempt to help Trump win the presidency. Veselnitskaya previously said she attended as a private lawyer and was not acting on behalf of the Kremlin. But the Times reports she met with Russia’s prosecutor general ahead of the meeting and that she carried a memo with whole paragraphs written verbatim by the Russian official’s office.

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