White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer asserted that a meeting between President Donald Trump's eldest son and several Russians last year was about adoption policy for Russian children, despite emails Donald Trump Jr. released showing that he expected to obtain damaging information on Hillary Clinton supplied by the Kremlin.
"There was nothing, as far as we know, that would lead anyone to believe that there was anything except for a discussion about adoption, the Magnitsky Act," Spicer told reporters on Monday.
Donald Trump Jr. issued public statements about the meeting shortly after it was revealed by the New York Times in which he said he agreed to the meeting in hopes of receiving information to discredit Clinton and that he was told in the meeting the Russians had politically embarrassing evidence on her.