Russian Lawyer Says Trump Jr. was interested in Dirt on Hillary and the DEMS
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(FORBES MAGAZINE) - The Russian lawyer who met Donald Trump Jr. during last year's election campaign says he was interested in dirt on Hillary Clinton in possible exchange for reconsidering a U.S. law.
In an interview with Bloomberg, Natalia Veselnitskaya gave details for the first time of what passed between her and Trump Jr. in a meeting at Trump Tower in Manhattan on June 9th last year. The meeting was also attended by Paul Manafort (at the time, Donald Trump senior's campaign manager) and Jared Kushner, the future president's son-in-law and senior advisor.
Veselnitskaya had engineered the meeting by offering proof that Democratic donors had evaded U.S. taxes. In return, by her own account, she was trying to lobby for changes to the so-called 2012 Magnitsky Law that imposed travel bans and sanctions on Russian officials accused of conspiring in the murder of an accountant, Sergey Magnitsky, who had accused officials of corruption.
"Looking ahead, if we come to power, we can return to this issue and think what to do about it,'' Trump Jr. reportedly said of the 2012 law, Bloomberg cited Veselnitskaya as saying. "I understand our side may have messed up, but it'll take a long time to get to the bottom of it."
She also said that Trump Jr. had asked her for written proof of her claim that Ziff Brothers Investments had evaded U.S. taxes while donating heavily to Clinton and other Democratic candidates. As she didn't have that, the meeting quickly ran into the sand, she said.