Trump campaign paid Trump Jr.’s lawyer weeks before Russia meeting revelation

President Trump’s official campaign paid Donald Trump Jr.’s lawyer roughly two weeks before it was revealed the president’s son had taken part in a meeting with a Russian lawyer, according to new FEC filings.

The FEC filing shows that Donald J. Trump for President, Inc. disbursed $50,000 for “legal consulting” to Alan Futerfas’s law firm on June 27.

Reuters reported on Monday that Futerfas had been hired to represent Trump Jr. but the report did not reveal when he had been retained.{mosads}

The Hill has reached out to the Trump campaign and Futerfas for comment.

The news of the payment comes just a week after The New York Times revealed Trump Jr. had arranged a meeting with Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya months ahead of the 2016 election.

Trump Jr. was promised damaging information on Hillary Clinton at the meeting, though he said earlier this week that it ultimately “went nowhere and it was apparent that that wasn’t what the meeting was actually about.”