No, they weren't.
A meeting took place at Trump Tower in
New York City on June 9, 2016, between three senior members of the
2016 Trump campaign –
Donald Trump Jr.,
Jared Kushner, and
Paul Manafort – and at least five other people, including Russian lawyer
Natalia Veselnitskaya.
The meeting was arranged by publicist and long-time Trump acquaintance
Rob Goldstone on behalf of his client, Russian singer-songwriter
Emin Agalarov.
The meeting was first disclosed to U.S. government officials in April 2017, when Kushner filed a revised version of his security clearance form.
Donald Trump Jr. made several misleading statements about the meeting.
He initially told the press that the meeting was held to discuss adoptions of Russian children by Americans.
Why did Kushner have to "revise" his statement?
On July 8, 2017, after news reports stated that Trump Jr. knew the meeting was political, he admitted in a tweet that he had agreed to the meeting with the understanding that he would receive information damaging to
Hillary Clinton, and that he was conducting
opposition research.
When
The New York Times was about to report on email exchanges between Goldstone and Trump Jr., Trump Jr. himself published the emails.
Oh' boy that makes it better.
In early July 2017, it was reported that President Donald Trump himself drafted Trump Jr.'s initial misleading statement.
Of course, he did.
Except for the bigly words.
The report was later confirmed by the president's attorneys.
In July 2018, the president denied knowledge of the meeting.
Typical.
"MY son-in-law"?
"Jared got me coffee once or twice".
