{"id":170,"date":"2022-11-07T14:55:30","date_gmt":"2022-11-07T14:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/russia-gate.net\/?post_type=te_announcements&#038;p=170"},"modified":"2022-11-07T14:55:30","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T14:55:30","slug":"june-2016-meeting-between-trump-campaign-and-key-russian-figures","status":"publish","type":"te_announcements","link":"https:\/\/russia-gate.net\/index.php\/announcement\/june-2016-meeting-between-trump-campaign-and-key-russian-figures\/","title":{"rendered":"June 2016 &#8211; Meeting between Trump Campaign and key Russian figures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In June 2016, at Trump Tower, Jared Kushner and and top Trump campaign officials meet with an army of key Russian figures, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya.<\/li>\n<li>Russian-American lobbyist Rinat Akhmetshin.<\/li>\n<li>Russian-American businessman Ike Kaveladze.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This was the infamous meeting arranged after Donald Trump Jr. was told the Russian government wanted to pass along damaging information about Hillary Clinton as part of its pro-Trump efforts.<\/p>\n<p>Veselnitskaya is connected with the Putin-appointed Russian Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika, as they&#8217;ve worked together lobbying against the Magnitsky Act (a law that sanctions Russians accused of violating human rights). Purportedly, Chaika wanted to get information about Clinton to Trump&#8217;s team.\u00a0Akhmetshin was part of Russian counter-intelligence, where it is believed he worked with Putin. Kaveladze is a senior Vice President for a real estate development company run by Oligarch Arts Agalarov, who has handled Kremlin projects and served as a liaison between Putin and Trump.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"parent":0,"template":"","aioseo_notices":[],"announcement_date":"Announcement Date: June 1, 2016","announcement_image":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/russia-gate.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/announcement\/170"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/russia-gate.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/announcement"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/russia-gate.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/te_announcements"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/russia-gate.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}