WASHINGTON: Donald Trump’s eldest son admitted Monday to meeting a Russian lawyer to get dirt on his father’s 2016 rival Hillary Clinton, thrusting the White House deep into another Russia-related scandal. US intelligence agencies have concluded that Russian President Vladimir Putin approved a mass effort to tilt the election in Trump’s favor, including hacking and leaking embarrassing emails from Democrats. “The president was not aware of and did not attend the meeting,” Mark Corallo, a spokesman for President Trump’s private lawyer, told Agence France-Presse. “I strongly pressed President Putin twice about Russian meddling in our election,” Trump later said. “The fact that President Putin and I discussed a Cyber Security unit doesn’t mean I think it can happen.

Source: Manila Times July 11, 2017 03:33 UTC