White House Suggests Democrats Arranged Meeting Between Trump Campaign and Kremlin-Linked Lawyer (Video)

“There’s More Questions on the Democrat Side Than Anywhere Else”

White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus implied today that the recently-unearthed meeting between former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort, Jared Kushner, Donald Trump Jr. and a Kremlin-linked lawyer may have been arranged by Democratic operatives. 

Yesterday, The New York Times reported the latest meeting between the Trump campaign and those with ties to the Kremlin: 

Two weeks after Donald J. Trump clinched the Republican presidential nomination last year, his eldest son arranged a meeting at Trump Tower in Manhattan with a Russian lawyer who has connections to the Kremlin, according to confidential government records described to The New York Times.

The previously unreported meeting was also attended by Mr. Trump’s campaign chairman at the time, Paul J. Manafort, as well as the president’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, according to interviews and the documents, which were outlined by people familiar with them.

The NYT reported that the lawyer was Natalia Veselnitskaya, who was married to a former deputy transportation minister in Moscow and has represented state-owned businesses and a high Russian official’s son who was under U.S. investigation.

In a statement to Fox News, Donald Trump Jr. confirmed the “short introductory meeting,” advising that he “asked Jared and Paul to stop by.” The president’s son advised the meeting was to discuss a “program about the adoption of Russian children that was active and popular with American families years ago.”

Priebus, appearing today on “Fox News Sunday” with Chris Wallace, echoed Trump Jr.’s sentiments, calling it both “a nothing meeting” and a discussion “of foreign policy, issues related to our place in the world, issues important to the American people like adoption.”

He then suggested that the meeting was arranged by Democratic operatives, pointing to an article on the right-wing-owned Circa that cited Mark Corallo, a spokesman for Trump’s lawyers. As HuffPost pointed out, the article reads:

“We have learned from both our own investigation and public reports that the participants in the meeting misrepresented who they were and who they worked for,” Mark Corallo, a spokesman for Trump’s lawyers, said in a statement published by Circa. “Specifically, we have learned that the person who sought the meeting is associated with Fusion GPS, a firm which according to public reports, was retained by Democratic operatives to develop opposition research on the President and which commissioned the phony Steele dossier.”

“There’s more questions on the Democrat side than anywhere else,” Priebus told Chris Wallace.

The full exchange can be seen below:

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