Donald Trump Jr. Admits Meeting with Russian Lawyer Who Promised Damaging Information on Hillary Clinton. In a stunning admission that some have said points to treason by members of the Trump campaign, Donald Trump, Jr. Russian government in June 2. Hillary Clinton. President Trumps eldest son said in a statement Sunday he was told before their meeting at Trump Tower that the Kremlin connected Russian lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya, would provide information helpful to the campaign. Veselnitskaya said she had information that individuals connected to Russia were funding the Democratic National Committee and supporting Ms. Clinton, Trump Jr. The comments came after The New York Times reported Sunday that Trump Jr. A very bad idea The monopolies of Twitter, Google and Facebook needs to be taken down in size. No corporation should be allowed to have. Clinton before he agreed to meet with Veselnitskaya. Trump Jr. s admission contradicted his earlier account of the meeting, which he initially claimed was focused on American adoptions of Russian children. A statement Trump Jr. Saturday before the Times story was published did not mention Clinton at all. Watch Goldstone Online Free 2016' title='Watch Goldstone Online Free 2016' />Miss Universe 2016 was the 65th Miss Universe pageant, was held on 30 January 2017 at the Mall of Asia Arena, Pasay, Metro Manila, Philippines. Pia Wurtzbach of the. Trump Jr. also confirmed the Times reporting that the meeting was attended by then Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and Trumps son in law and adviser, Jared Kushner. It is unclear if Veselnitskaya actually provided any compromising information on the Clinton campaign. Trump Jr. said her statements were vague, ambiguous and made no sense. No details or supporting information was provided or even offered. It quickly became clear that she had no meaningful information. It became clear to me that the adoption issue was the true agenda all along and that the claims of potentially helpful information were a pretext for the meeting, he added. Veselnitskaya, meanwhile, told the Times that nothing at all about the presidential campaign was discussed at the meeting. She said she never acted on behalf of the Russian government and never discussed any of these matters with any representative of the Russian government, the newspaper reported. RELATED VIDEO Exclusive Natasha Stoynoff Speaks Out I Dont Want Women to Feel AfraidTrump Jr. U. S. investigation into Russian meddling in the presidential election, including potential collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russians. The meeting, which took place on June 9, 2. Donald J. Trump clinched the Republican nomination, is the earliest known private meeting between members of the presidents inner circle and a Russian, according to the Times. Newsweek notes that Trump Jr. President Trump and Vice President Mike Pence that no one from Trumps campaign had any contact with Russians or Russian officials. Facing criticism over his shifting accounts of the meeting, Trump Jr. Twitter on Monday to issue a denial and to sarcastically say that hes not the only person in the history of American campaigning to ever take a meeting to hear info about an opponent. Some critics fired back that actually, he may well be the first person to have such a meeting with a Russian. No. Youre just the first person who met with RUSSIA to CONSPIRE AGAINST OUR ELECTION PROCESS You committed treason, tweeted Huffington Post political blogger Kelly Scaletta. Republican attorney and former White House ethics lawyer Richard W. Painter has said on Twitter and in an interview with MSNBC that Trump Jr. Russian lawyer borders on treason. This was an effort to get opposition research on an opponent in an American political campaign from the Russians, who were known to be engaged in spying inside the United States, he said Sunday on MSNBC, adding that the Bush administration would never have allowed such a meeting. We do not get our opposition research from spies, we do not collaborate with Russian spies, unless we want to be accused of treason, Painter said. GOP Sen. Susan Collins also voiced her concerns about Trump Jr. Bloombergs Steven Dennis that the presidents son should be interviewed by the Senate Intelligence Committee. Kenneth Roth Wikipedia. Kenneth Roth born 2. September 1. 95. 5 is an American attorney who has been the executive director of Human Rights Watch since 1. Early lifeeditKenneth Roth, a graduate of Yale Law School and Brown University, claims he was drawn to human rights causes through his family ties. He said that his father would keep his three young sons quiet as he cut their hair by telling tales of their grandfathers butcher shop in Frankfurt, Germany. Roth stated that as they grew older, his father told them about living under the Nazis as a young boy and fleeing Germany in July 1. Watch Emmanuelle: First Contact Online Facebook. Jimmy Carters introduction of human rights as an element of US foreign policy in the late 1. Roth to take on human rights as a vocation, Roth has claimed. Prior to starting at Human Rights Watch HRW in 1. Roth worked in private practice as a litigator and served as a federal prosecutor for the U. S. Attorneys Office for the Southern District of New York and the Iran Contra investigation in Washington DC. During the early years of his work in human rights movement, Roth focused on the Soviet imposition of martial law in Poland in 1. Roth joined Human Rights Watch in 1. His initial work centered on Haiti, which was just emerging from the Duvalier dictatorship but continued under military rule. Since then, Roth has travelled internationally on behalf of Human Rights Watch. His biography on the HRW website claims he has special expertise on issues of justice and accountability for atrocities committed in the quest for peace military conduct in war under the requirements of international humanitarian law counterterrorism policy, including resort to torture and arbitrary detention the human rights policies of the United States, the European Union, and the United Nations and, the human rights responsibilities of multinational businesses. Roth has published numerous articles, newspaper op eds, and articles in academic journals, covering a wide range of issues, including Domestic Violence as an International Human Rights Issue, in Human Rights of Women National and International Perspectives 7 The Case for Universal Jurisdiction 8 The Charade of US Ratification of International Human Rights Treaties 9 and The Law of War in the War on Terror Washingtons Abuse of Enemy Combatants1. His Twitter handle is Ken. Roth. In September 2. Roth gave a lecture entitled The Dynamics of Human Rights and the Environment at the University of San Diegos Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace Justice Distinguished Lecture Series. Roth frequently addresses audiences around the world, including at the United Nations in New York,1. Munich Security Conference1. World Economic Forum in Davos. Human Rights WatcheditIn 1. Roth was hired by Aryeh Neier to be deputy director of HRW and since 1. Neier left to become head of George Soros Open Society Institute, Roth has been the organizations executive director. Under Roths leadership, Human Rights Watch has grown eight fold in size and vastly expanded its reach. It now operates in more than 8. During Roths tenure, Human Rights Watch has documented war crimes in Bosnia,1. Democratic Republic of Congo,1. Iraq1. 9 and Sierra Leone. Human Rights Watch researchers have testified at international tribunals. The organization has also done extensive work on child soldiers. Human Rights Watch published reports on Liberian dictator Charles Taylor, Perus Alberto Fujimori2. Chiles Augusto Pinochet,2. As a founding member of the International Campaign to ban Landmines, in 1. Human Rights Watch shared the Nobel Peace Prize for helping bring about the Mine Ban Treaty. Criticism and controversieseditUnder Roths leadership, Human Rights Watch has been criticized for perceived biases and misconstructions. VenezuelaeditOn December 1. Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Mxico, the UK, the US, Venezuela and other countries publicly criticized HRW in an open letter to the HRW Board of Directors in response to an HRW report, A Decade Under Chvez Political Intolerance and Lost Opportunities for Advancing Human Rights in Venezuela. The report was criticized for bias against the government of Venezuela and its President, Hugo Chavez, stating that it does not meet even the most minimal standards of scholarship, impartiality, accuracy, or credibility. One of the letters authors, Hugh OShaughnessy, accused HRW of using false and misleading information, and said the HRW report was put together with the sort of know nothing Washington bias. Kenneth Roth responded, stating that the letter misrepresented both the substance and the source material of the report. Fred Oluoch Ojiwah, of Rwandas New Times newspaper, questions Roths impartiality and equates his criticism of Rwandas human rights record to a love affair with the genocidaires that carried out the Rwandan Genocide of 1. As a western human rights personality Rothwill always fail to understand the intricacies and complexities surrounding the 1. Genocide against Tutsi. Wrapping it up simplistically the way he has done will only serve to undo the gains already registered in driving the very delicate process of bringing forth a new dispensation in Rwanda and by extension the African Great Lakes region, Oluoch Ojiwah wrote. Er Full Episodes Season 1. Allegations of anti Israel biaseditKenneth Roth has been criticized by the Jerusalem based NGO Monitor for allegedly being biased against Israel. Gerald M. Steinberg has been a long time critic of Roths role as head of Human Rights Watch from 1. Writing in a 2. 00. Jerusalem Post article3. Roths op ed in which Roth accused NGO Monitor of disregarding basic facts, fictitious allegations of bias and a fantasy based discourse which does a deep disservice to Israel. In August 2. 00. 6, during the war between Hezbollah and Israel, Roth rejected criticism of HRWs allegations against Israel, writing in a letter to the editor of The New York Sun An eye for an eye or, more accurately in this case, twenty eyes for an eye may have been the morality of some more primitive moment. But it is not the morality of international humanitarian law which Mr. Bell pretends to apply. In response, the head of the Anti Defamation League ADL referred to Roths rhetoric as a reflection of classic anti Semitic stereotype about Jews. In reaction to Richard Goldstones recantation of the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict report, HRW Founder Robert Bernstein said to the Jerusalem Post in April 2. Roth, that it is time for him to follow Judge Goldstones example and issue his own mea culpa. An analysis of his tweets by NGO Monitor, alleges that Kenneth Roth shows significant levels of sarcasm, vitriol, and deep seated hostility towards Israel. On April 2. 6, 2. Roth drew criticism for attacking Israel for sending humanitarian aid to Nepal during the April 2. Nepal earthquake, due to its blockade of Gaza, which he saw as a humanitarian crisis of Israels own making. EthiopiaeditThe Ethiopian Human Rights Commission EHRC has taken issue with the credibility of Roths accusations that Ethiopias government is corrupt and uses international aid funding for repressive purposes. The EHRC accused Roth of impartiality caused by a desire to appeasewealthy financiers. It cited his evaluation of the Democratic Institution Program DIP as superficial and claimed that his allegations of corruption were based on poor methodology. EHRC also called Roths recommendations a contradiction that called for the promotion of human rights at the expense of human rights programs and their implementers. Syria and IraqeditKenneth Roth claimed that there was sectarian and violent persecution by Iraqi Prime Minister Maliki and Roth claimed that the locals were not being alienated by ISIS4.