NBC News has obtained the answers to written questions that Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya submitted to the Senate Judiciary Committee in which she says Donald Trump Jr. asked "whether she had evidence of illegal donations to the Clinton Foundation" during their Trump Tower Meeting on June 9, 2016:
Veselnitskaya...told the committee that she didn't have any such evidence, and that she believes Trump misunderstood the nature of the meeting after receiving emails from a music promoter promising incriminating information on Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump's Democratic opponent.
Once it became apparent that she did not have meaningful information about Clinton, Trump seemed to lose interest, Veselnitskaya said, and the meeting petered out.
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In her 51-page statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee, Veselnitskaya said she did not work for the Russian government and was not carrying any messages from government officials. She said her motive was to get the Trump team to examine what she argues is a fraud that led the U.S. to impose sanctions on Russia known as the Magnitsky Act.
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Veselnitskaya said there was no discussion at the Trump Tower meeting of hacked or leaked emails, social media campaigns or any of the other main aspects of Russian interference in the U.S. election. Previously, she told NBC News she had raised the issue of potential questionable contributions to Clinton's campaign by Americans accused in Russia of tax evasion.
NBC News acknowledges Veselnitskaya's credibility is questionable but also points out that regardless of what happened in the meeting, the lawyer's statement shows again that Trump Jr. attended expecting to get dirt from the Russians:
Though some may see her answers as self-serving, Veselnitskaya's written answers reinforced what has long been understood about the Trump Tower meeting: that Donald Trump Jr. accepted it on the promise of incriminating information about Clinton that he had been told was coming from the Russian government. And he asked Veselnitskaya directly whether she had it, according to her written answers.
Full story: Donald Trump Jr. asked Russian lawyer for info on Clinton Foundation (NBC News)