Ex-Soviet spy attended Trump Jr. meeting with Russian lawyer

  • 7 years ago
There were other folks in the room when a meeting between Donald Trump Jr. and Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya took place in June 2016. According to NBC News, Russian-American lobbyist Rinat Akhmetshin was in attendace. The agency reports that Akhmetshin is a former Soviet counterintelligence officer who is suspected by some U.S. officials of having ongoing ties to Russian intelligence. Akhmetshin told AP Akhmetshin told the Associated Press that Trump Jr. asked Veselnitskaya for information on the Democratic National Committee receiving illicit money. Trump Jr. reportedly became unhappy when she said she didn't have such info. Akhmetshin and Veselnitskaya had been working together to overturn a US law sanctioning Russians. Former campaign manager Paul Manafort and Senior Adviser Jared Kushner were also in the meeting.

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