Congressional investigators have dragged Jared Kushner, Donald Trump Jr. and Paul Manafort to grill them about a now-infamous June 2016 meeting at Trump Tower that is at the center of the Democrats’ dubious narrative that the Trump campaign somehow colluded with the Russian government to tilt the election in Trump’s favor.
But for whatever reasons, they have no interest in speaking with anyone from the Russian side, including Natalia Veselnitskaya, the Russian lawyer at the center of the meeting. Veselnitskaya revealed as much during a 10-minute interview with the Russian news program Vesti, saying she sought the meeting as part of her efforts to help Russian businessman Denis Katsyv, a client of hers who was targeted with sanctions through the Magnitsky Act. Neither Hillary Clinton, nor the Trump campaign were discussed during the meeting, she said.
‘It was a private meeting,’ Ms. Veselnitskaya told the interviewer, according to an account Friday in the Moscow Times. ‘I asked for help – help to get out a story I had come across in my professional capacity.’
The meeting ‘had nothing to do with [then-candidate Donald Trump’s] rivals or the presidential election,’ she added. ‘That never happened. That’s not true.’
She expressed frustration that US investigators have not asked for her side of the story, telling her audience that the US Congress isn’t interested in the truth.
This post was published at Zero Hedge on Aug 4, 2017.
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