WASHINGTON ¨C Donald Trump¡¯s lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, said the 2016 meeting at Trump Tower between the then-candidate¡¯s oldest son and a Russian lawyer with ties to the Kremlin was arranged to seek information about Democrat Hillary Clinton.
¡°The meeting was originally for the purpose of getting information about, about Clinton,¡± Giuliani said Sunday on NBC¡¯s ¡°Meet the Press.¡± ¡°It turned out to be a meeting about another subject, and it was not pursued at all.¡±
Giuliani¡¯s comment was consistent with a tweet by Trump on Aug. 5 that the gathering had been arranged to ¡°get information on an opponent,¡± contradicting the previous reason given for the meeting. He didn¡¯t mention Clinton by name.
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