Donald Trump Jr has played down a meeting with a Kremlin-linked lawyer who had promised him damaging information about Hillary Clinton during his father’s bid for the US presidency last year.
He was speaking to Fox News after releasing a 2016 email chain in which he appeared to welcome the help from the Russian government attorney after being promised by an intermediary "high level" information about Mrs Clinton, that was “part of Russia and its government’s support for Mr Trump."
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But the eldest Trump son dismissed the subsequent meeting as “a nothing” which failed to lead to anything fruitful.
He said he decided to meet with lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya as a favour to Rob Goldstone, a friend and publicist for a Russian pop star, and for ‘research’ on an opponent.
“In retrospect I probably would have done things a little differently,” Trump Jr told Fox News.
“Again this is before Russia mania, this was before they were building it up in the press.
“For me this was opposition research – something you know, concrete evidence as to all the stories I’d been hearing about.
“I wanted to hear it out, but really, it went nowhere and it was apparent that wasn’t what the meeting was actually about.”
