Kremlin Disavows Knowledge Of Trump Jr’s Meeting

The Washington Post reports:

The Kremlin on Monday said it was unaware of a 2016 meeting between Donald Trump Jr. and a Russian lawyer purported to have information that could potentially damage Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.

President Trump’s eldest son said Sunday that Natalia Veselnitskaya, who represents business executives close to the Russian government had approached him in June 2016, saying she had insider details about Clinton.

Asked about the meeting on Monday, President Vladi­mir Putin’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, told reporters that the Kremlin does not know the lawyer, and added that the Kremlin “cannot keep track of every Russian lawyer and their meetings domestically or abroad.”

Putting Donald Trump Jr's meeting with that Kremlin-connected lawyer into perspective — a handy timeline https://t.co/KxWai1Ywgt pic.twitter.com/3FHgK9O2qO

— Mark Murray (@mmurraypolitics) July 10, 2017

This is where we are folks – The Kremlin (Putin) coming to Don Jr, Kushner and Manafort's defense, when two have admitted the meeting. https://t.co/Cfg1sdPmKz

— Amy Siskind (@Amy_Siskind) July 10, 2017