SAN FRANCISCO, July 10, (THEWILL) – Donald Trump’s eldest son, Trump Jnr has admitted to Meeting a Russian lawyer to get dirt on his father’s 2016 Rival Hillary Clinton, thrusting the White House deep into another Russia-related scandal.

He confirmed reports that he was on the trail of damning information on the Democrat vying to become America’s first woman president, when he met Natalia Veselnitskaya in June 2016.

“Obviously, I’m the first person on a campaign to ever take a meeting to hear info about an opponent,” Trump’s son said in a tweet, claiming that it “went nowhere” but he “had to listen.”

US intelligence agencies have concluded that Russian President Vladimir Putin approved a mass effort to tilt the election in Trump’s favour, including hacking and leaking embarrassing emails from Democrats while the FBI and Congress are investigating whether the Trump campaign colluded with Russia to influence the 2016 presidential vote.

It was reported that Paul Manafort and Jared Kushner, two of Trump’s most trusted campaign officials, were also at the meeting last year which was part of an effort by Moscow to aid his father’s presidential bid and hurt Democratic rival Hillary Clinton.

Although, Veselnitskaya is not well known in Russia, but she represented the son of a senior Russian official who was involved in a major fraud probe that had international repercussions and “stated that she had information that individuals connected to Russia were funding the Democratic National Committee and supporting Mrs Clinton.”

“It quickly became clear that she had no meaningful information,” he said, adding that the lawyer then began discussing the adoption of Russian children by American couples under a program Putin had suspended.

The meeting took place at a pivotal point in the 2016 campaign, after Trump had shocked Republicans with a string of primary victories and Clinton had all-but secured the Democratic nomination.

Meanwhile, US officials have sought to distance the president himself from the encounter.

“The president was not aware of and did not attend the meeting,” Mark Corallo, a spokesman for President Trump’s private lawyer insisted while White House Spokeswoman, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, said Trump had only learned of the meeting “in the last couple of days.”