Donald Trump’s eldest son has admitted meeting with a Russian lawyer supportive of President Vladimir Putin last year after she promised information that could damage rival Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.
Mr Trump Jr said Jared Kushner, Mr Trump’s son-in-law and now a top White House adviser, and Paul Manafort, then campaign manager, also attended the June 2016 session in which the lawyer claimed to have information that “individuals connected to Russia” were helping Mrs Clinton.
In a statement released on Sunday evening, Mr Trump Jr said he agreed to meet the lawyer, identified by the New York Times as Natalia Veselnitskaya, after he was told by an acquaintance she may have “information helpful to the campaign”.