Russian-American lobbyist Rinat Akhmetshin confirmed he also attended a June 2016 meeting at Trump Tower with Donald Trump Jr. that is being scrutinized for Moscow’s efforts to aid the Trump campaign, the Associated Press reported Friday, hours after NBC News broke the news. Trump Jr. did not disclose Akhmetshin’s presence at the meeting with Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya in statements and emails released this week. Akhmetshin was reportedly a counterintelligence officer during the Soviet era that is suspected to still have close Kremlin ties. Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law and White House senior adviser, and then-campaign chairman Paul Manafort were also present at the meeting.
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