Trump Jr. claims the meeting was supposed to be about a Russian adoption program, but that adoption program was actually a way for Vladimit Putin to meddle into American congressional affairs.
From the NYT article:
Two weeks after Donald J. Trump clinched the Republican presidential nomination last year, his eldest son arranged a meeting at Trump Tower in Manhattan with a Russian lawyer who has connections to the Kremlin, according to confidential government records described to The New York Times.
The previously undisclosed meeting was also attended by Mr. Trump’s campaign chairman at the time, Paul J. Manafort, as well as the president’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, according to interviews and the documents, which were outlined by people familiar with them.
As per the nature of the meeting, says The New York Times, Donald Trump Jr. said in a statement that the meeting was "primarily about an adoption program" but the statement did not mention of the Trump campaign was discussed.
The "adoption program" was a program that allowed American families to adopt Russian children. Vladimir Putin suspended the program in retaliation against a law the US Congress was working on, known as the Magnitsky Act, that blacklisted suspected Russian human rights abusers. The law was named after a lawyer who died under mysterious circumstances in a Russian prison in 2009. Putin was enraged with the law and retaliated by suspending the adoption program.
The Russian lawyer Donald Trump Jr and Jared Kushner met opposed the Magnitsky Act. She is also married to a former Russian government official.
If they discussed the adoption act, it follows to reason that they also discussed the reason for the suspension of the program and, it follows, they may have discussed how Trump could work to favor Russia in the matter. Otherwise, why bother?
So that's even more evidence that the Trump campaign did have contacts with people linked to Putin, and that strengthens the suspicion that Trump did cullude with Russia.
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