Trump Jr. released another statement on the alleged emails and meeting on Tuesday.
“To everyone, in order to be totally transparent, I am releasing the entire email chain of my emails with Rob Goldstone about the meeting on June 9, 2016,” he wrote.
He added: “The first email on June 3, 2016 was from Rob, who was relating a request from Emin, a person I knew from the 2013 Miss Universe Pageant near Moscow. Emin and his father have a very highly respected company in Moscow. The information they suggested they had about Hillary Clinton I thought was Political Opposition Research. I first wanted to just have a phone call but when that didn’t work out, they said the woman would be in New York and asked if I would meet. I decided to take the meeting.”
“The woman, as she has said publicly, was not a government official. And, as we have said, she had no information to provide and wanted to talk about adoption policy and the Magnitsky Act. To put this in context, this occurred before the current Russian fever was in vogue. As Rob Goldstone said just today in the press, the entire meeting was ’the most inane nonsense I ever heard. And I was actually agitated by it,'” his statement read.
Reports say that White House senior adviser Jared Kushner and ex-Trump chairman Paul Manafort attended the June 9, 2016, meeting.
But the Russian lawyer who met with Trump Jr. denied having any dirt on Hillary Clinton.
“I never had any damaging or sensitive information about Hillary Clinton. It was never my intention to have that,” Natalia Veselnitskaya told NBC News Tuesday.
