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Trump's office was asked about a second meeting with Russian lawyer

By Melissa Quinn
Published May 16, 2018 4:03pm ET
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Trump's office was asked about a second meeting with Russian lawyer
Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya listens to a question during an interview with The Associated Press in Moscow, Russia, Sunday, April 22, 2018. Veselnitskaya who discussed sanctions with Donald Trump Jr. in New York during the 2016 campaign told The Associated Press in an interview that she has not been contacted by special counsel Robert Mueller and alleged that he was not interested in getting to the truth. | (Dmitry Serebryakov/AP)

A British music promoter who helped orchestrate the June 2016 meeting at Trump Tower with Donald Trump Jr. and a Russian lawyer reached out to the Trump team about a possible second meeting, according to newly released documents.

The documents, released by the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, indicate that Rob Goldstone reached out to Rhona Graff, President Trump’s longtime assistant, in November 2016 about a possible second meeting between members of the Trump transition team and Natalia Veselnitskaya, the Russian lawyer.

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