Donald Trump Jr. confirms in a tweet that he took Russian lawyer meeting 'to hear info about an opponent'

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In a tweet Monday morning, Donald Trump Jr. doubled down on his admission that he'd taken a meeting with a Kremlin-connected Russian lawyer during the presidential election "to hear info about an opponent." Above a Drudge Report link to a story calling reports on the meeting "a big yawn," Trump Jr. sarcastically quipped that he was "obviously ... the first person on a campaign" to take such a meeting:

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