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Trump Comments on His Son's Meeting With Russian Lawyer Publicly for 1st Time

© REUTERS / Mike Segar/File PhotoDonald Trump Jr. (L) gives a thumbs up beside his father Republican U.S. presidential nominee Donald Trump (R) after Trump's debate against Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York, U.S. September 26, 2016.
Donald Trump Jr. (L) gives a thumbs up beside his father Republican U.S. presidential nominee Donald Trump (R) after Trump's debate against Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York, U.S. September 26, 2016. - Sputnik International
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US President Donald Trump on Thursday defended his son from allegations regarding his meeting with Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya.

Donald Trump Jr. stands onstage with his father Republican U.S. presidential nominee Donald Trump after Trump's debate against Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York, U.S. September 26, 2016. - Sputnik International
'Nothing Illegal' in Trump Jr Meeting With Russian Lawyer - President's Attorney
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — For the first time, the US president publicly commented on the scandal involving his son's unreported meeting with a Russian lawyer in 2016.

Trump emphasized the lawyer his son, Donald Trump Jr., had a meeting with in 2016, was not a Russian government lawyer. Donald Trump said that the meeting was short and it had no result.

"My son [Donald Trump Jr.] is a wonderful young man. He took a meeting with a Russian lawyer, not a government lawyer, but a Russian lawyer. It was a short meeting. It was a meeting that went very, very quickly," Trump told reporters during a news conference in Paris, France.

The US president added that his son's decision to meet with Veselnitskaya was "very standard" in politics.

"I think from a practical standpoint most people would have taken that meeting. It's called opposition research or research into your opponent," Trump said.

The president reiterated that "nothing came of the meeting."

He added that he heard that Attorney General Lynch agreed on the Russian lawyer's visa.

Donald Trump Jr. Stands in an elevator at Trump Tower in the Manhattan borough of New York City, U.S., November 17, 2016 - Sputnik International
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On Tuesday, Trump Jr. released an email chain with UK-born publicist Rob Goldstone about a meeting with Natalia Veselnitskaya to allegedly discuss compromising information on then-presidential nominee and Trump rival Hillary Clinton. After the release of emails, Trump called his son a "high-quality person" in a White House press service's comment.

Veselnitskaya has denied any links with the Kremlin and insists that she never had sensitive information about Clinton, nor any intentions of damaging the former presidential candidate's reputation.

On Wednesday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters that the media coverage of the Veselnitskaya-Trump Jr. scandal is meant to overshadow Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin’s first bilateral meeting. Previously, he said that he doesn't know who Veselnitskaya is.

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