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Posted: 2017-07-13T18:16:41Z | Updated: 2017-07-13T18:33:07Z

Most Americans believe it was inappropriate for Donald Trump Jr. to agree to meet with a Kremlin-linked Russian lawyer who was said to have damaging information about Hillary Clinton , a new HuffPost/YouGov survey finds.

The story, which has dominated the news this week since Trump Jr. tweeted out a copy of his email exchanges preceding the June 2016 meeting , has drawn widespread media attention and heavy scrutiny in some quarters.

A majority of poll respondents, 53 percent, said it was inappropriate for Trump Jr. to take the meeting. Just 22 percent considered it appropriate, with the remaining quarter unsure.

More than three-quarters of the public say theyve heard at least something about the story, although only a third say that theyve heard a lot.

Just 1 percent of voters who supported Clinton in last years election consider the meeting appropriate, while 89 percent said it was inappropriate.

Trump voters were largely unbothered by the meeting, although their reaction was more divided with 60 percent saying it was appropriate, 17 percent calling it inappropriate and 24 percent unsure.

Self-described members of the Republican Party were even less united, with just 47 percent calling the meeting appropriate, and 22 percent calling it inappropriate.