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UCmeNdc

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Tue Jul 11, 2017, 10:59 AM Jul 2017

They wanted it so badly: Russian lawyer who met Trump Jr. says he was desperate for Clinton dirt

Natalia Veselnitskaya, the Russian attorney who met with key members of the Trump presidential campaign last June, told NBC’s Today on Tuesday that the Trump team was desperately hoping she could give them damaging information about Hillary Clinton last year.

During the interview, Veselnitskaya claimed that she had been called out of the blue by someone whom she didn’t know and was asked to meet with Trump Jr. at Trump Tower last year.

When she went there, she didn’t have any intention of revealing any significantly damaging information about the Clinton campaign, despite the fact that Trump Jr. had been told that was the entire point of the meeting.

When asked by NBC’s Keir Simmons why members of the Trump campaign would think that she had damaging information on Clinton, Veselnitskaya replied that they perhaps expected her to deliver because they were so desperate for dirt that they projected their wishes onto the meeting.

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/07/they-wanted-it-so-badly-russian-lawyer-who-met-trump-jr-says-he-was-desperate-for-clinton-dirt/

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They wanted it so badly: Russian lawyer who met Trump Jr. says he was desperate for Clinton dirt (Original Post) UCmeNdc Jul 2017 OP
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