Russian Lawyer Who Met with Donald Trump Jr. Denies Kremlin Links, Clinton Info

The Russian lawyer who met with Donald Trump Jr. last year has denied claims that she is linked to the Kremlin in an interview published Tuesday, and says that she didn’t meet with him to hand over information about the Clinton campaign — pouring cold water on the latest attempts to tie the Trump campaign to an alleged Russia conspiracy. The New York Times has run multiple stories in recent days reporting on a meeting that occurred during the presidential campaign between President Trump’s son and Natalia Veselnitskaya. The Times reported Sunday that Trump Jr. took the meeting in the belief that the participants may have had compromising information on Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. Trump Jr. joked Monday that he was “the first person on a campaign to ever take a meeting to hear info about an opponent.” -- More...