At a joint press conference with French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris, President Donald Trump commented on his son's controversial meeting with a Russian attorney in June 2016. Trump said most people would have taken that meeting.



Trump also mentioned the lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya, was granted special entry into the U.S. by the Obama administration under the Lynch Justice Department after she initally was denied a visa.





TRUMP: That's very standard in politics. Politics is not the nicest business in the world, but it's very standard where they have information and you take the information.



In the case of Don, he listened. I guess they talked about -- as I see it, they talked about adoption and some things. Adoption wasn't even a part of the campaign.



But nothing happened from the meeting, zero happened from the meeting. And honestly, I think the press made a very big deal over something that really a lot of people would do.



Now, the lawyer that went to the meeting, I see that she was in the halls of Congress also. Somebody said that her visa or her passport, to come into the country, was approved by Attorney General Lynch. Now, maybe that's wrong, I just heard that a little while ago, but a little surprised to hear that. So, she was here because of Lynch.



So, again, I have a son who's a great young man. He's fine person. Took a meeting from a lawyer from Russia. It lasted for a very short period and nothing came of the meeting. And I think it's a meeting that most people in politics probably would have taken.

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