Donald Trump Jr.’s Two Different Explanations for Russian Meeting
Mr. Trump acknowledged on Sunday that Ms. Veselnitskaya offered him information on Mrs. Clinton but
that her statements “made no sense” and the information was not “meaningful.”
This is the statement Mr. Trump gave to the news media on Sunday:
I was asked to have a meeting by an acquaintance I knew from the 2013 Miss Universe pageant
with an individual who I was told might have information helpful to the campaign.
Mr. Trump’s version of the meeting changed Sunday, when three advisers to the White House briefed on the meeting and two others with knowledge of it told The Times
that Mr. Trump met Ms. Veselnitskaya after she promised to provide damaging information on Mrs. Clinton.
By LIAM STACKJULY 9, 2017
In less than 24 hours, President Trump’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., has given two different explanations for a meeting he held during
the 2016 campaign with a Kremlin-connected Russian lawyer who promised to provide damaging information about Hillary Clinton.
We primarily discussed a program about the adoption of Russian children
that was active and popular with American families years ago and was since ended by the Russian government, but it was not a campaign issue at the time and there was no follow up.
In response, Mr. Trump said the meeting was brief and focused mostly on the issue of adoption.
The statement made reference to Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law, and Paul J. Manafort, the president’s former campaign manager.