ETHICS/RUSSIA/TRUMP FAMILY/DONALD JR: “The Kremlin on Monday [7-10-17] said it was unaware of a 2016 meeting between Donald Trump Jr. and a Russian lawyer purported to have information that could potentially damage Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.
President Trump’s eldest son said Sunday that Natalia Veselnitskaya, who represents business executives close to the Russian government had approached him in June 2016, saying she had insider details about Clinton.
Asked about the meeting on Monday, President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, told reporters that the Kremlin does not know the lawyer, and added that the Kremlin ‘cannot keep track of every Russian lawyer and their meetings domestically or abroad.’
Veselnitskaya has for the past several years been a leading advocate around the world to fight the Magnitsky Acts, sanctions imposed on Russia for human rights abuses that have been vehemently opposed by Putin and other leading Russian officials.
Asked on a conference call about Veselnitskaya, Peskov said: ‘We do not know who that is.’ “
-David Filipov, Tom Hamburger, and Rosalind S. Helderman, “Kremlin denies knowing of Donald Trump Jr. meeting with Russian lawyer during 2016 campaign,” The Washington Post online, July 10, 2017 09:28am