Trump’s Son Met With Russian Lawyer After Being Promised Damaging Information on Clinton
But Representative Adam B. Schiff of California, the leading Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, one of the
panels investigating Russian election interference, said he wanted to question “everyone that was at that meeting.”
“There’s no reason for this Russian government advocate to be meeting with Paul Manafort or with Mr. Kushner or the president’s son if it wasn’t about the campaign
and Russia policy,” Mr. Schiff said after the initial Times report.
By JO BECKER, MATT APUZZO and ADAM GOLDMANJULY 9, 2017
President Trump’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., was promised damaging information about Hillary Clinton before agreeing to meet with a Kremlin-connected
Russian lawyer during the 2016 campaign, according to three advisers to the White House briefed on the meeting and two others with knowledge of it.
Mark Corallo, a spokesman for the president’s lawyer, said on Sunday that “the president was not aware of and did not attend the meeting.”
Lawyers for Mr. Kushner referred to their statement a day earlier, confirming
that he voluntarily disclosed the meeting but referring questions about it to Donald Trump Jr. Mr. Manafort declined to comment.
Mr. Manafort, the former campaign chairman, also recently disclosed the meeting,
and Donald Trump Jr.’s role in organizing it, to congressional investigators who had questions about his foreign contacts, according to people familiar with the events.