Tag Archives: Rinat Akhmetshin

Donald Trump Jr. on His Russian Contacts

"No meetings that were set up."
- March, 2017

"We had a set up meeting in June 2016."
July 9, 2017 -

"No discussion of Russia-related policy."
- March, 2017

"The Russian laywer mentioned the Russia-related Magnitsky Act."
July 9, 2017 -

"No meetings where I was representing the campaign."
- March, 2017

"Obviously I'm the first person on a campaign to ever take a meeting…about an opponent."
July 10, 2017 -

Rinat Akhmetshin is a Soviet-born naturalized American pro-Russia lobbyist who served in the Soviet Army working with a counterintelligence unit. He has with a long history of advancing the Kremlin’s interests in Washington and working for Vladimir Putin allies – including two separate projects working for Russian billionaires close to Putin who were accused of hacking their adversaries’ computers. Akhmetshin was present at the June 9, 2016, Trump Tower meeting where Donald Trump Jr. was led to believe that he would get damaging information about Hillary Clinton from a “Russian government attorney.”¹²