How could they possibly have forgotten this?! NBC says that there was another person at the Trump Jr. meeting, and that he had Russian counter-intelligence ties…
“We’ve now learned that a second person with ties to Russia attended that controversial meeting.”-@MLauer https://t.co/kgwckRCK8Z
— TODAY (@TODAYshow) July 14, 2017
More from CNBC:
When Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya met with members of then-candidate Donald Trump’s campaign team, she brought a guest — a former Soviet counterintelligence officer, NBC News reported.
The man at the June 2016 meeting with Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner and Paul Manafort is a Russian-born American lobbyist who also served in the Soviet military, NBC said. The Associated Press identified the lobbyist as Rinat Akhmetshin but did not immediately report any ties with Soviet counterintelligence.
He denies current ties to any Russian intelligence agencies, though some U.S. officials suspect otherwise, NBC said.
Akhmetshin told the AP the meeting was “not substantive” and he “actually expected more serious” discussion.
“I never thought this would be such a big deal to be honest,” he told AP.
Oh c’monnnn!!!
Trump Jr.’s attorney tells @NBCNews he thought additional person in lawyer meeting was friend of intermediary https://t.co/yKT7rLob3y
— NBC News (@NBCNews) July 14, 2017
This just gets worse and worse… now again, this still isn’t illegal, but it just makes the story less and less believable that Trump Jr. thought this was normal or somehow totally ethical to do.