Campaigns and political parties regularly seek out unflattering or compromising news stories about their opponents, but experts said last week that accepting help from an adversarial foreign government is rare and a cause for concern.
The president's attorney, Jay Sekulow, defended Trump and his son in a series of appearances Sunday on five television networks. The only person in the Trump campaign who had such protection was Donald Trump himself. "And unlucky for my children who are now going to community college". "Thus we would not have screened anyone he was meeting with at that time", the statement said. The emails also said that the information on Clinton came from the Russian government. On Friday, Russian-American lobbyist and former Soviet military officer Rinat Akhmetskin told the AP that he, too, was there.
Jared Kushner, Mr Trump's son-in-law and current White House senior adviser, and then-campaign chairman Paul Manafort also attended the meeting with Donald Trump Jr. Seventy-seven per cent of Trump voters said they would support the President staying in office, even if investigations find he did collude with Russian Federation.
Though the emails revealed Trump Jr. was offered "official documents and information that would incriminate Hillary and her dealings with Russia", White House press secretary Sean Spicer said Monday the only topics discussed were the American adoption of Russian children and the Magnitsky Act, the US legislation punishing Kremlin officials for human rights violations.
There are now several congressional panels and a federal special counsel investigating allegations Russian Federation meddled in the election.
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The president has repeatedly defended his eldest son and namesake, who he said "is being scorned by the Fake News Media". He has also explained his evolving statements on the matter, saying that he was responding to new questions.
Details are slowly coming out about Donald Trump Jr.'s meeting with a Russian lawyer during his father's presidential campaign in June 2016, including the identity of an eighth participant.
Sen. Mark Warner, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, said Sunday that he wants everyone who attended the meeting to appear before his committee, one of several in Congress investigating Russia's interference in the 2016 election and potential coordination with the Trump campaign.
Balber, who acts as the legal representative of Kaveladze, said that Kaveladze believed he would be a translator, but when he arrived found out that Natalia Veselnitskaya had brought State Department employee Anatoli Samochornov to act as her translator.
In other Sunday morning appearances, Sekulow also said that he was unaware of any other meetings that took place with the President's son and Russians, when asked by Jake Tapper of CNN.
A federal special counsel and several congressional panels are investigating allegations by US intelligence agencies that Russian Federation meddled in the 2016 USA presidential election to hurt Clinton and help Trump.
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