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Posted: 2017-07-08T23:30:19Z | Updated: 2017-07-10T18:44:17Z

President Donald Trump s team met with a Kremlin-aligned lawyer just two weeks after winning the Republican presidential nomination, a new report says.

The new information comes from confidential government records and interviews conducted by The New York Times.

Donald Trump Jr. arranged the meeting with Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya at Trump Tower in Manhattan just two weeks after his fathers nomination. Campaign chairman Paul J. Manafort and Trumps son-in-law, Jared Kushner , also attended.

The report comes just days after Trump met with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the G-20 summit in Germany. During their exchange, Putin denied any Russian interference in the U.S. election, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said.

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Both Trump Jr. and Kushners representatives confirmed the June 6, 2016 meeting with Veselnitskaya. But Trump Jr.s reps told the Times the meeting was about an adoption program.

Veselnitskaya is best known for her opposition to an American law that blacklists Russians suspected of human rights abuses. Her opposition mirrors Putins anger with the law, which prompted him to halt American adoptions of Russian children as a response.

As the Times highlights, last years meeting marks the first confirmed private talk between a members of Trumps team and a Russian national. Prior to Saturdays report, Trump Jr. was not known to have been involved in meetings with Kremlin-aligned lawyers.