The White House has rejected new charges against Trump's entourage

Photo: twitter / Donald Trump Jr. @DonaldJTrumpJr

The White House launched a counterattack to refute allegations that a meeting of Donald Trump’s campaign staff, including eldest son The president, with a Russian lawyer last year, may have been part of a deal with the Kremlin to defeat Hillary Clinton.

“The headquarters of the president did not conspire in any form,” said the deputy spokeswoman for the White House, Sarah Huckabi Sanders, at a briefing. - Donald Jr. did not collude with anyone to influence the election. Our position is that no one in trump's campaign headquarters colluded to influence the election. ”

Meanwhile, Donald Trump Jr. hired a New York lawyer, Alan Futerfas, who will represent his interests in connection with the investigation of his father’s election campaign contacts with the Russian authorities. It is reported by Reuters, citing Futerfas himself and representatives of the Trump Junior office. Futerfas is a lawyer who works for himself and specializes in criminal defense.

At this step, the eldest son of the President of the United States went soon after the newspaper New York Times wrote about his meeting in June 2016 of the year with Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya, who promised to provide Trump’s campaign with compromising information about her election rival, Democrat Hillary Clinton.

According to US media reports, Veselnitskaya is linked to the Kremlin and is promoting its interests in the West. The Russian authorities deny this information. As the Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Monday, the Kremlin does not know Natalia Veselnitskaya, a lawyer, and cannot “track all the meetings of Russian lawyers both domestically and abroad.”

Photo: Natalia Veselnitskaya.
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The eldest son of American leader Donald Trump Jr. said Sunday that he and Trump’s campaign manager Paul Manafort and President’s son-in-law Jared Kushner met with Weselnick in June 2016 of the year after Trump received the Republican nomination. Veselnitskaya said she was ready to share information that could adversely affect the Clinton campaign.

However, according to Trump’s son, “no details or supporting information have been provided, or even offered,”. “It soon became clear that she had no significant information,” he added.

Monday night newspaper New York Times said that before meeting with Russian lawyer, Donald Trump Jr. received an e-mail stating that this meeting was part of the efforts of the Russian government to help his father’s election campaign.

Referring to three people familiar with the content of this letter, the newspaper writes that publicist Rob Goldstone in a letter to Trump Jr. made it clear that the source of negative information is the Russian government.

In his Sunday statement, the son of the American leader did not mention that he had been told that a lawyer could be a confidant of the Kremlin. The letter is likely to interest investigators trying to establish whether Trump’s associates had colluded with the Russian authorities to influence last year’s elections, notes New York Times.

As Donald Trump Jr. stated, his father was not aware of the meeting. It was arranged by musical impregnator Rob Goldstone at the request of his Moscow client - Azerbaijani singer and songwriter Emin Agalarov. It is reported that the latter knew the future president from the moment of his activities to promote the Miss Universe contest in 2013.

On Monday, Donald Trump Jr. said in defense of his meeting with a Russian lawyer, that this meeting "did not lead to anything," but he "had to listen."

Photo: twitter / Donald Trump Jr. @DonaldJTrumpJr

The White House’s counterattack also included several high-profile television appearances. Adviser to Trump Kellyann Conway, speaking in the program “Good morning, America” on the ABC channel, said that as a result of the short meeting, “no information that would be meaningful or useful, was not received.”

When she was asked if it could be considered that this meeting at least was an attempt at collusion, Conway replied: “You want to say that there is any evidence of collusion here?” Because everyone is trying to turn what they want into irrefutable evidence, and they fail. ”

The White House chief of staff, Raines Pribus, previously called the conspiracy charges "a pie without a filling."

The representative of the group of lawyers Trump Mark Corallo in a statement on Sunday noted that "the president did not know about the meeting and did not participate in it."

On Monday afternoon, the second highest ranking senator in the Senate Intelligence Committee of the United States, Mark Warner, said that he “undoubtedly” would like to talk with Junior Trap during the hearings in Russia. According to the NBC television channel, with reference to its sources in the Senate Intelligence Committee, the senators intend to call the eldest son of the head of the White House to the Senate to testify.

It is assumed that the meeting with Veselnitskaya is the first established contact between Trump's campaign headquarters and Russian interests during the election campaign, which in November ended with Trump's victory over Clinton.

Photo: twitter / John Schindler @20committee

The newspaper stated that it received information from three White House advisers, who had listened to the briefing on the meeting, and two others who knew about it.

According to US media reports, Veselnitskaya is known for trying to circumvent sanctions against Russians involved in human rights violations. It is reported that among her clients are state-owned companies and the son of a high-ranking official, whose company was under investigation in the United States at the time of the meeting.

Photo: twitter / Ivanka Trump @IvankaTrump

In the United States for several months now, investigations into Russian interference in the election campaign and possible collusion between Trump's campaign headquarters and the Russian authorities have been underway. American intelligence has concluded that Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered a campaign to discredit the American election, damage the Clinton campaign and help Trump win. Putin himself denied the allegations during a meeting with Trump last Friday on the margins of the G-20 summit in Hamburg.

Several investigations into this case are being conducted in Congress, and Special Attorney Robert Muller, the former head of the FBI, is trying to establish whether there was an agreement between Trump’s headquarters and Russia and whether Trump tried to obstruct justice by dismissing FBI Director Russian business to Muller.

The White House’s assurances did not reassure the Democrats, who say that the meeting between Trump’s son and Veselnitskaya should be thoroughly investigated along with some other contacts between Trump’s campaign staff and Russian officials.

The minority leader in the Senate, Chuck Schumer, pointed out that American intelligence agencies had come to the unanimous opinion that Russian intervention in the presidential election was directed at the highest level.

“The Russian president intentionally interfered in our elections and tried to undermine our democracy,” said Schumer. “The Democrats did not come up with this, these are 17 intelligence agencies, men and women, many of whom risk their lives every day for us, people we respect, admire - they said that the interference was.”

Trump said that he was thinking “about this story with Russia” when he dismissed Komi, and repeatedly called investigations “a witch hunt” and an attempt by Democrats to justify defeat Clinton.

Trump has also repeatedly rejected communications with Russia, while Moscow claims that it had nothing to do with hacking into the files of the National Committee of the Democratic Party in Washington and the computer of the head of Clinton’s campaign headquarters, John Podesta. A few weeks before the election portal WikiLeaks has published thousands of emails from Podesta, many of which contained delicate details about Democrats behind-the-scenes attempts to help Clinton get a presidential nomination.

Clinton herself called the publication of these letters one of the reasons for her defeat in the elections.

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