NBC and The Associated Press are cocksure they’ve
got the nails necessary to crucify President Trump and Donald Jr.
The Russian lawyer who
met with Donald Trump Jr. and others on the Trump team after a promise of
compromising material on Hillary Clinton was accompanied by a Russian-American
lobbyist—a former Soviet counterintelligence officer who is suspected by some
U.S. officials of having ongoing ties to Russian intelligence, NBC News has learned.
The lobbyist, who
denies any current ties to Russian spy agencies, accompanied the lawyer, Natalia
Veselnitskaya, to the June 2016 meeting at Trump Tower attended by Donald Trump
Jr.; Jared Kushner, the president's son-in-law; and Paul Manafort, former
chairman of the Trump campaign.
The Russian-born
American lobbyist served in the Soviet military and emigrated to the U.S.,
where he holds dual citizenship.
The Associated
Press identified the lobbyist as Rinat Akhmetshin, and said he acknowledged
attending the meeting, though he said it was not substantive. “I never thought
this would be such a big deal, to be honest,” he told the AP.
The presence at the
meeting of Akhmetshin is likely to be of interest to special counsel Robert
Mueller and the House and Senate panels investigating Russian meddling in the
2016 presidential election.
Senator Chuck Grassley,
Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, is pursuing information on Akhmetshin
charging he had been working with Fusion GPS, the oppo research firm hired by
Democrats to research and write an “intelligence report” senior members of the Obama
Administration widely circulated in pushing the narrative of Russian collusion
with the Trump campaign.
BREAKING: a 1,387th person was in the room with Don Jr. pic.twitter.com/s1tQzMGKi8— Cuffy (@CuffyMeh) July 14, 2017
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