Veselnitskaya instead offered what she said was evidence that members of the wealthy Ziff family had engaged in tax evasion and money laundering in Russia and the U.S. and donated ill-gotten gains to the Democratic National Committee or the Clinton campaign.
"According to Akhmetshin, Trump Jr. asked follow-up questions about how the alleged payments could be tied specifically to the Clinton Campaign, but Veselnitskaya indicated that she could not trace the money once it entered the United States," Mueller said.
Kushner became aggravated and asked "[w]hat are we doing here?" according to the report. Akhmetshin then turned the conversation to U.S. sanctions imposed under the Magnitsky Act and Russia’s retaliation prohibiting the U.S. adoption of Russian children, according to the report.
This meeting was on June , 2016; a month after Putin supposedly revealed info about e mails to Papapodronous. The issue of emails coming from Assange was beginning to be know and Assange publicly announced the emails two weeks later. In the meeting, Kurshner should have asked about emails if Papadroponous had already spilled the beans. He had not, evidently.
This meeting was about sanctions on oligarchs, nothing more and was handled without specific instructions from Putin. This was strictly a lobbying case. This is what we knew from the beginning, everyone seemed to know about the emails except the Trump and the Russian lawyer.
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