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    Lawyer Who Met With Trump Jr. Has Ties To Russian Government

    Natalia Veselnitskaya says she never acted on behalf of the government, but she's spent much of the past five years pushing Putin's messages and fighting American sanctions against Russia.
    by Miles Parks Jul 10, 2017 3 minutes

    Update 10:05 p.m. ET

    Donald Trump Jr. insisted on Monday that his meeting with a Russian lawyer in the middle of the campaign last year was benign, but the lawyer has a number of ties to Russian government officials.

    Natalia Veselnitskaya , as well as Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner and then-campaign chairman Paul Manafort in June 2016, according to a statement Trump Jr. provided NPR. The reported late Monday that Trump Jr. was informed in an email that material damaging to Hillary Clinton promised in the meeting was part

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