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In Paris, Trump Defends Son's Meeting With Russian Lawyer

The president said the June 2016 meeting was very standard, and that politics "is not the nicest business."

President Donald Trump once again defended his son Don Trump Jr.'s meeting with a Russian lawyer in the midst of last year's presidential campaign, saying his son is a "wonderful young man," and that the meeting was one "most people in politics would have taken."

Trump's remarks came during a news conference in Paris with

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