![]() Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer, a New York Democrat, speaks with reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, March 28, 2017. When pressed about whether the meeting might at least be at minimum an attempt at collusion, Conway said, "Are you saying there's evidence of collusion? Because everybody is trying to convert wishful thinking into hard evidence, and they haven't been able to do that," she said.Ĭhief of Staff Reince Priebus earlier called the collusion allegation a "nothingburger." Mark Corallo, a spokesman for Trump's legal team, said in a statement Sunday that "the president was not aware of and did not attend the meeting." Trump counselor Kellyanne Conway told a television interviewer Monday (ABC's Good Morning America) that the brief meeting produced "no information that was meaningful or helpful" in the campaign. The White House counteroffensive also included several network television appearances by senior officials. The meeting, apparently the first contact between senior Trump campaign officials and Russian interests during the campaign, came two weeks after Trump won the Republican presidential nomination, and weeks before Wikileaks began releasing emails embarrassing to Clinton. White House counselor Kellyanne Conway is interviewed by Howard Kurtz during a taping of his "MediaBuzz" program on the Fox News Channel in New York, March 10, 2017. went to a meeting with Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya last June, expecting to be given information that might damage Clinton's campaign. The denial followed news, first reported by The New York Times, that Trump Jr. ![]() Our position is that no one within the Trump campaign colluded in order to influence the election," Sanders said. did not collude with anybody to influence the election. "The president's campaign did not collude in any way," Deputy Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told a press briefing. The meeting with Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya last June, apparently the first contact between senior Trump campaign officials and Russian interests during the campaign, came two weeks after Trump won the Republican presidential nomination, and weeks before Wikileaks began releasing emails embarrassing to Clinton.Īlan Futerfas, a lawyer for Donald Trump Jr., dismissed the Times story as "much ado about nothing."Įarlier Monday, the White House mounted a counteroffensive to fight off allegations that the meeting, which also included President Trump's son-in-law and senior White House adviser Jared Kushner, and his then-campaign manager Paul Manafort, was part of an effort to collude with the Kremlin. The Times said its story was based on information from three people with knowledge of the email, and that the message from publicist Rob Goldstone told Trump that the material was part of a Russian government effort to help his father, Donald Trump, defeat Clinton. and a Russian attorney last year indicated in an email to Trump that the Russian government was the source of information that might hurt Hillary Clinton's campaign for president. ![]() ![]() The New York Times reported late Monday that the man who set up a meeting between Donald Trump Jr. ![]()
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