Turns out Don Jr.'s meeting at Trump Tower was with a Russian agent
The Russian lawyer whom Donald Trump Jr. hosted during his infamous meeting at Trump Tower on June 9, 2016 Natalia Veselnitskaya has insisted she is not Kremlin spy. The Trump campaigns allies bought this assertion hook, line, and sinker.
But according to newly-released emails from a Russian watchdog group, as well as Veselnitskayas own admission in a forthcoming television interview, she has been an informant for the Russian government for years.
I am a lawyer, and I am an informant, she said in an interview with NBC News to be broadcast on Friday, according to the New York Times. Since 2013, I have been actively communicating with the office of the Russian prosecutor general.
The New York Times also reported that per emails obtained by Dossier, a Russian government watchdog group established by Russian exile and Putin foe Mikhail Khodorkovsky, she worked hand in glove with Russias chief legal office to thwart a Justice Department civil fraud case against a well-connected Russian firm. Veselnitskaya, asked about the emails in the NBC interview, said she was hacked.
https://thinkprogress.org/don-jr-met-with-russian-informant-1a0e83efc586/