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| Lavrov: Criticism of Trump Jr. for talking with Russian lawyer ‘wild,’ overblown | Lavrov: Criticism of Trump Jr. for talking with Russian lawyer ‘wild,’ overblown |
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| Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says he was astonished to learn the US president’s son has been slammed for talking to a Russian lawyer. The minister has lampooned the accusations, saying they were “wild” and making a mountain out of a molehill. | Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says he was astonished to learn the US president’s son has been slammed for talking to a Russian lawyer. The minister has lampooned the accusations, saying they were “wild” and making a mountain out of a molehill. |
| “I was amazed to find out that Trump’s son is accused of talking to her [Natalia Veselnitskaya]. For me it’s basically wild, because when a person talks to a lawyer, what is the threat to anyone?” the top Russian diplomat said. | |
| Lavrov added that he had learned about this fact from the media. | |
| “When I turned on the TV in the morning, all the Western channels were talking about it. | |
| “It is amazing how serious people are making an elephant out of a fly,” the minister added while speaking at a news conference with his Belgian counterpart, Didier Deynders, on Wednesday. | |
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