Donald Trump Jr faced damaging new claims on Friday that he lied about his meeting with a Russian lawyer, as an ex-Soviet intelligence officer revealed he was there too and claimed a trove of claims about Democrats and 'bad money' was handed over.

Russian-American lobbyist Rinat Akhmetshin - who U.S. intelligence think may still be a spy - told the Associated Press that he was part of the Trump Tower meeting with Don Jr.

Don Jr brought Jared Kushner, his brother-in-law who is now one of President Donald Trump's , and Paul Manafort, then the campaign chairman.

But on Friday Akhmetshin and other sources revealed stunning new details about the meeting which put Don Jr on the ropes.

Akmetshin's disclosure of being there blew apart Don Jr's claim on Tuesday to have told 'everything' there was to say about the meeting - because the president's son had only admitted to the presence of Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya.

Russian-American lobbyist Rinat Akhmetshin (background in glasses) was working with Natalia Veselnitskaya on an effort to kill the Global Magnitsky Act around the same time as the Trump Tower meet-up. He confirmed to the AP he attended the controversial get-together

Donald Trump Jr met with Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya last June, after being promised by an intermediary dirt on Hillary Clinton, courtesy of the Kremlin

NBC News reported Friday morning that Natalia Veselnitskaya, the Russian attorney who met with Donald Trump Jr and campaign aides, was accompanied by a man with ties to Russian intelligence, something the individual has denied

PR executive Rob Goldstone emailed Donald Trump Jr to set the controversial meeting up. He confirmed to the Associated Press that he participated in the gathering. Next to be revealed to be there was interpreter Anatoli Samochornov (right)

Off course: Donald Trump returned to the U.S. and went to the U.S. Women's Open Championship at his Bedminster golf course on Friday, while his administration faced crisis

Grip and grin: Jared Kushner was at the meeting too. His presence kicked off the whole affair because he disclosed it in his security clearance forms

Then Akhmetshin, a former Soviet military intelligence officer, piled on the pressure with a bombshell claim that Veselnitskaya had brought a plastic folder full of printed documents which contained claims of the Democratic National Committee receiving dirty Russian money.

That directly contradicted Don Jr's account that no information had been received from the visiting Russians.

Don Jr was uncharacteristically silent on twitter as disclosure followed disclosure.

In contrast his brother-in-law Jared Kushner was grinning and relaxed as he and his wife Ivanka mingled with media moguls at Sun Valley in Idaho.

Democrats are beginning to seize on the claims with Bernie Sanders telling an Associated Press reporter: 'These are very, very, very serious allegations.'

He added that there should not be a rush to judgment.

The most damage of the day was done to Don Jr's credibility.

As well as the disclosure that documents were left, the list of who was in the meeting grew, with portly British PR Rob Goldstone admitting to the Associated Press that he was in the room, and a New York Times reporter revealing on MSNBC that there was also an interpreter present.

Anatoli Samochornov, a U.S. citizen who has worked for Veselnitskaya for some time was with him, reporter Ken Vogel said.

There could have been even more people there as CNN reported that there was an associate of pop star Emin present. Emin is the son of Aras Agalarov, the billionaire friend of Vladimir Putin and CNN said a representative of the Agalarov family was there.

Trump Jr never noted the presence of any individuals outside the campaign's senior officials - Kushner and Manafort - and the lawyer, Veselnitskaya.

Gets around: A few days after the meeting in Trump Tower Natalia Veselntiskaya headed to Washington, where she sat in on a House Foreign Affairs Committee meeting, almost directly behind former Obama Moscow ambassador Michael McFaul - who stated publicly this week that he does not know her

During the meeting, Akhmetshin said Veselnitskaya brought along a plastic folder with printed out documents that detailed illicit funds flowing to the Democratic National Committee.

'This could be a good issue to expose how the DNC is accepting bad money,' Akhmetshin recalled the attorney saying, according to comments he made to the AP.

Akhmetshin went on saying Donald Trump Jr asked Veselnitskaya if she had all the proof in the information she was delivering.

She replied that the Trump campaign would have to do some digging itself.

After that, Akhmetshin told the AP, Donald Trump lost interest. 'They couldn’t wait for the meeting to end,' the Russian-American lobbyist said.

Akhmetshin said he didn't know if the Russian government was the source of the documents, nor did he remember if Veselnitskaya handed them over to an individual or simply left them in the room, according to the statements he made to the AP.

NBC, which initially withheld Akhmetshin's name, described the lobbyist as holding dual American and Russian citizenship, having emigrated to the US after serving in the Soviet military.

After Akhmetshin was IDed, news organizations confirmed that there were a number of other individuals sitting in on the meeting, including PR executive Ron Goldstone, who previously said he wasn't in the room.

Additionally, CNN reported that a representative of the Agalarov family, a pop star central to the narrative, was there, as well as a translator.

The translator's existence was confirmed by both Akhmetshin and Donald Trump Jr's lawyer, Alan Futerfas.

Futerfas, told NBC News that two other people accompanied Veselnitskaya to the meeting – a translator and a 'friend of Emin [Agalarov]'s and maybe as a friend of Natalia [Veselnitskaya].'

Emin Agalarov is a pop star friend of the Trumps who asked his PR person, Ron Goldstone to reach out to Donald Trump Jr, according to emails Trump's son produced, offering information about Hillary Clinton from the Russians.

Futerfas said he has talked to the 'friend' who attended the meeting.

'He is a U.S. citizen,' Donald Trump Jr's lawyer told NBC. 'He told me specifically he was not working with the Russian government, and in fact laughed when I asked him that question.'

The individual Futerfas described is likely Akhmetshin, though CNN reported later on Friday that a representative of the Agalarov family was also in the room, as the reported meeting's size doubled since Friday morning, from four to at least eight participants.

Last weekend, when the meeting first became public, Donald Trump Jr changed his story several times, as more information was released by the New York Times.

On Saturday, he told the Times the meeting had been about Russian adoption, on Sunday he added that Veselnitskaya had come armed with dirt on the Democrats.

'After pleasantries were exchanged the woman stated that she had information that individuals connected to Russia were funding the Democratic National Committee and supporting Ms. Clinton,' the eldest Trump son said.

'Her statements were vague, ambiguous and made no sense.

Gang's back together: Rob Goldstone (left) now says he was at the meeting with Don Jr. He had met Trump at Muss Universe in 2013 when he, his client Emin (center) and the future president dined together.

And here's my dad the Putin pal: Emin is the son of Aras Agalarov, an oligarch who 'brings solutions not problems' to Putin.

'No details or supporting information was provided or even offered,' he continued. 'It quickly became clear that she had no meaningful information.

'She then changed subjects and began discussing the adoption of Russian children and mentioned the Magnitsky Act,' Donald Trump Jr said in a statement.

On Fox News Channel's Hannity on Tuesday, before NBC's Friday report, Trump Jr was asked, 'as far as you know, as far as this incident is concerned, this is all of it?'

'This is everything. This is everything,' the eldest Trump son said, never mentioning that there were additional individuals in the room.

But it was not just Don Jr whose account shifted – Akhmetshin lied too.

Akhmetshin, who was in Moscow this week, spoke to DailyMail.com on Monday.

He claimed then that he did not attend the meeting and was unaware of it.

'I cannot talk about this stuff because I really have no f***ing connection to this stuff,' said Akhmetshin. 'It’s not my s**t, why should I even talk about it?'

'I don’t even know who set it up, some fat guy who was a music producer or something,' he added.

Goldstone was also reportedly in the room, according to CNN.

The PR executive had checked into Trump Tower that day on social media, but previously said he wasn't sitting in on the meeting.

On Friday, Goldstone confirmed to the AP that he was in the meeting.

Akhmetshin also defended Don Jr., saying the president’s son 'can talk to whoever the f*** he wants.'

Akhmetshin took a more pleasant tone with the AP on Friday, telling the wire service the meeting was not substantive and he 'actually expected [a] more serious' conversation.

'I never thought this would be such a big deal to be honest,' the lobbyist told the AP.

Before Akhmetshin confirmed his participation, he was an obvious person to have been sitting in on the meeting.

Veselnitskaya was working at the time for Denis Katsyv, the owner of Prevezon, who was accused of running a massive money-laundering operation.

At exactly the same time as she was meeting Trump and Kushner, Katsyv also had a lobbying operation under way in Washington run by two men: Akhmetshin and Robert Arakelian.

Akhmetshin holds both Russian and American citizenship and has been accused in New York state court of being a former Soviet military intelligence officer.

Those documents, expanded on by the Daily Beast, accuse Akhmetshin of hacking two computer systems to steal information from a mining company as part of an alleged 'black-ops smear campaign,' the publication wrote.

The allegations were later withdrawn, the Daily Beast said.

Akhmetshin told Radio Free Europe that he had not worked for Soviet military intelligence.

Akhmetshin worked with Fusion GPS, the shadowy 'research' firm responsible for producing the unverified Trump dossier, of allegations against Donald Trump – including that he paid prostitutes to urinate on a bed in Moscow because President Obama had once stayed in the same hotel room – in an effort to kill the Global Magnitsky Act.

Those efforts put him on the radar of Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, who wrote a letter in late March to the Justice Department asking why Akhmetshin, and Fusion GPS, hadn't been registered as foreign lobbyists.

Akhmetshin and Arakelian run a group called the Human Rights Accountability Global Initiative Foundation, which first registered to lobby last April.

They spent nearly $200,000 on lobbying last year.

It says in its disclosure forms that it focuses on 'foreign adoption issues,' a term that has become shorthand for opponents of the Magnitsky Act.

The Magnitsky Act is a suite of financial sanctions targeting Russian officials and businesses that was passed by congress in 2012. The law is named after dissident lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, who died after injuries he sustained in Russian prison in 2009.

In response to the sanctions, the Russian government banned Americans from adopting children from the country.

Critics of the Magnitsky Act imply that Russia would end the adoption ban in exchange for concessions on the Magnitsky law.

They have also raised questions about Sergei Magnitsky’s death, suggesting he was not abused in prison and that he was financially corrupt despite claiming to be a government whistleblower.

Akhmetshin continues to lobby against the act and in May met Republican congressman Dana Rohrabacher in Berlin, in a hotel lobby.

Rohrabacher told CNN that Akhmetshin had an 'ulterior motive' and when the Congressman was asked if he thought the Russian-American could still be connected to his native country’s security services said: 'I would certainly not rule that out.'

William Browder, the CEO of Hermitage Capital and the head of the Global Magnitsky Justice campaign, suspected Akhmetshin was the unnamed individual in the meeting.

'Curious NBC doesn't name the "Former Intelligence Officer." The only known associate of Veselnitskaya who fits that profile is Akhmetshin,' he tweeted Friday morning before Akhmetshin confirmed his presence.

On Friday, the Russian government denied any involvement or knowledge of the meeting, according to the AP.

'We don't know anything about this person,' said Dmitry Peskov, President Vladimir Putin's spokesman, of Akhmetshin.

NBC's Keir Simmons spoke with Veselnitskaya earlier this week and she said she had no ties to the Kremlin despite Goldstone, the PR executive writing to Donald Trump Jr, describing her as a 'Russian government lawyer.'

In those emails, which Donald Trump Jr released via Twitter on Tuesday, Goldstone told the president's namesake that the crown prosecutor of Russia wanted to hand over 'official documents and information that would incriminate Hillary [Clinton] and her dealings with Russia and would be very useful to your father.'

'This is obviously very high level and sensitive information but is part of Russia and its government’s support for Mr Trump,' Goldstone went on.

NBC News reported Friday morning that Natalia Veselnitskaya, the Russian attorney who met with Donald Trump Jr and campaign aides, was accompanied by a man with ties to Russian intelligence, something the individual has denied

Donald Trump Jr replied positively to the message, saying, 'if it's what you say I love it especially later in the summer,' referring to a time later in the campaign cycle where it would be more politically-damaging to Clinton.

The two then went on to set up the meeting with Veselnitskaya and this unnamed individual NBC News has learned about.

The network said representatives for Kushner and Manafort declined to comment.

Donald Trump Jr's lawyer also didn't respond to their multiple requests for comment.

The eldest Trump son went on Sean Hannity's show earlier this week and told viewers that he 'would have done things a little differently' in retrospect.

President Trump, at a press conference Thursday with President Emmanuel Macron on France, gave a long-winded defense of his son after an American reporter asked him a question about the week's biggest news story, which has rattled the White House over Russia ties yet again.

'As far as my son is concerned, my son is a wonderful, young, man, he took a meeting with a Russian lawyer, not a government lawyer, but a Russian lawyer,' Trump began.

'It was a short meeting. It was a meeting that went very, very quickly, very fast,' Trump continued, noting that of the other two people in the room 'one of them left almost immediately' – the president said of Kushner, though didn't name his name – and the other – Manafort, which Trump also didn't mention – 'was not really focused on the meeting.'

Trump tried to classify the encounter as politics-as-usual.

'I think from a practical standpoint most people would have taken that meeting, it's called opposition research or research into your opponent,' Trump said. 'I've had many people, I've only been in politics for two years, but I've had many people call up and say, "oh gee, we have information on this factor or this person or, frankly, Hillary," that's very standard in politics.'

'Politics is not the nicest business in the world, but it's very standard,' the president added.

He said Donald Trump Jr listened at the meeting but 'nothing happened ... zero happened.'

'And honestly I think the press made a very big deal over something really a lot of people would do,' the president also said.

Trump also tried placing some blame on the previous administration by pointing to Attorney General Loretta Lynch, as the Obama Justice Department, according to reporting from the Hill, had made a special exception to allow Veselnitskaya in the country, as she was the attorney for the Prevezon case, a money-laundering case involving a Russian real estate firm.

'Somebody said that her visa or her passport to come into the country was approved by Attorney General Lynch, now maybe that's wrong but I just heard that a little while ago,' Trump said. 'So she was here because of Lynch.'

He then summarized what he hoped the press would view as the takeaway and moved on to the next question.

'So, again, I have a son who's a great young man, he's a fine person,' Trump said.

'Took a meeting with a lawyer from Russia, it lasted for a very short period and nothing came from the meeting,' he added. 'And I think it's a meeting most people in politics probably would have taken.'

The Russia story has dogged Trump as he hoped a trip to Paris to attend the country's Bastille Day festivities would switch the focus to international diplomacy instead.

Now, Democrats, including House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., are calling for Kushner's security clearance to be yanked.

'His security clearance must be revoked immediately,' Pelosi demanded at a Capitol Hill press conference Friday morning.

She also called out House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., for not condemning Donald Trump Jr's actions.

On Tuesday, McConnell deferred to the Senate committees that are currently investigating the Russia matter.

On Thursday, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, said he was writing a letter to Donald Trump Jr to bring him before the Senate panel as early as next week.

Grassley had already requested that Manafort appear.

Back in the House, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, also investigating Russia's interference in the 2016 election, said Akhmetshin’s participation in the Trump Tower get-together 'adds another deeply disturbing fact about this secret meeting,' stated Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif.

The omission of Akhmetshin’s name by Donald Trump Jr, Schiff added, 'paints a portrait of consistent dissembling and deceit.'

Of the trio of Trump associates who were at the meeting, Kushner is the only one with a government gig now.

Donald Trump Jr, along with his younger brother Eric, took over the Trump Organization when President Trump entered the White House.

Manafort resigned from the Trump campaign in August of 2016, replaced by Steve Bannon, now the White House Chief Strategist, and Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway, who served as the president's final campaign manager.