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_Published 2017-07-13. President Donald Trump is defending his son after revelations that Donald Trump Jr. took a meeting with a Russian lawyer tied to the Kremlin. "Most people would have taken that meeting," the President said in a press conference Thursday in Paris._


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## Transcript

As far as my son is concerned, my son is a wonderful young man, he took a meeting with a Russian lawyer, not a government lawyer but a Russian lawyer, it was a short meeting, it was a meeting that went very very quickly, very fast, two other people in the room they, I guess one of them left almost immediately and the other one was not really focussed in the meeting. I do think this, I think from a practical standpoint most people would have taken that meeting. It's called opposition research, or even research into your opponent. I've had many people, I have only been in politics for two years.

But I've had many people call up OG, we have information on this factor or this person or, frankly, Hillary. That's very standard in politics. Politics is not the nicest business in the world but it's very standard where they have information and you take the information. In the case of Don, he listened Guess they talked about, as I see it, they talked about adaption and some things. Adaption wasn't even a part of the campaign. But nothing happened from the meeting. Zero happened from the meeting. And honestly, I think the press made a very big deal over something that really, a lot of people would do.

Now, the lawyer that went to the meeting, I see that she was in the halls of Congress Also, somebody said that her visa, or her passport, to come into the country, was approved by Attorney General Lynch. Now maybe that's wrong, I just heard that a little while ago, but it's a little surprise to hear that, so she was here because of Lynch. So, again. I have a son who's a great young man, he's a fine person, he took a meeting with a lawyer from Russia. It lasted for a very short period, and nothing came of the meeting. And I think it's a meeting that most people in politics probably would have taken

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