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18:49, 19-Jul-2017
Russian lawyer who met Trump Jr. ready to testify to Congress
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The Russian lawyer who met Donald Trump Jr. after his father won the 2016 US Republican presidential nomination has said she is ready to testify to Congress to dispel what she calls "mass hysteria" about the encounter.
Trump's eldest son agreed last year to meet Natalia Veselnitskaya, a woman he was told was a Russian government lawyer who had damaging information about Democratic White House rival Hillary Clinton, according to emails released by Donald Trump Jr.
Donald Trump Jr. talks with his father, US President Donald Trump, during the 2016 Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio US on July 20, 2016.
Donald Trump Jr. talks with his father, US President Donald Trump, during the 2016 Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio US on July 20, 2016.
Veselnitskaya had previously said she was a private lawyer, that she never obtained damaging information about Clinton and that she had no ties with the Kremlin.
"I'm ready to clarify the situation behind this mass hysteria, but only through lawyers or testifying in the Senate," she said in an interview with Russia's Kremlin-backed RT channel on Tuesday.
Russian officials have repeatedly denied US allegations that Moscow interfered in the presidential campaign to help Trump win the White House race.
(Source: Reuters)
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