16 July, 2017
He has served in the Soviet military in a unit, which works closely with the counterintelligence department.
The White House plans to hire attorney Ty Cobb as part of its internal legal team to manage matters related to the ongoing investigations into Russian election interference and possible collusion with the Trump campaign, a White House official confirmed to ABC News. Later, according to emails Trump Jr. posted to Twitter and the Times published, it emerged that Trump Jr. was told ahead of time that the meeting was part of "Russia and its government's support of Mr. Trump". "That's very standard in politics; politics is not the nicest business in the world, but it's very standard where they have information and you take the information", Trump said as he stood alongside French President Emmanuel Macron at a Paris news conference.
Veselnitskaya shared her account of the interaction with NBC. He, however, claimed that he did not receive the information he was promised. "This could be a good issue to expose how the DNC is accepting bad money", Akhmetshin recalled her saying.
The meeting appears to be the most tangible evidence of a connection between Trump's election campaign and Russian Federation, a subject that has prompted investigations by congressional committees and a federal special counsel.
The lawyer for Donald Trump Jr. has not responded.
"Our intelligence committee needs to interview him and others who attended the meeting", said Republican Senator Susan Collins.
"When I read those e-mails from Donald Trump Jr. and the exchange, to me one of the things that stands out is he's being told apparently for the first time--but he doesn't sound like he is all that surprised by it--that the Russian government is backing his father".
The June 2016 meeting at Trump Tower with Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner and Paul Manafort included at least eight people. Akhmetshin said he recognized Kushner and Trump Jr.
IR.net believes we may know who these two additional individuals were.
The DHS statement also said Veselnitskaya's visa from 2015 expired, so she used a standard visitor visa issued by the State Department to travel to the USA for her meeting with Donald Trump Jr.
Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., said the growing and still mysterious meeting roster "adds another deeply disturbing fact about this secret meeting".
In the midst of the firestorm renewed by Trump Jr.'s email revelation, the president defended his son early Wednesday.
"I think any witness who's been asked to testify before Congress should testify", Ryan said.
"The Democrats never want it to end because they have no message, they have no narrative, they have no leader", Lewandowski told "Fox & Friends".
Michael Caputo, a political communications expert from East Aurora who was an aide to the Trump campaign, appeared before a U.S. House committee Friday to deny he knew of any contacts between the campaign and Russian Federation, something the committee is investigating. Asked Friday about Akhmetshin, Russian President Vladimir Putin's spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, told reporters: "We don't know anything about this person". Over on Capitol Hill, a House Intelligence Committee questioned former Trump campaign adviser Michael Caputo for three and a half hours on Russian meddling in the election.
