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Following celebrations of Bastille Day and the 100th anniversary of the U.S. entry into World War I, Mr. Trump
and President Emmanuel Macron of France warmly shook hands.
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The presence of a Russian lobbyist added a new twist to the evolving story about a meeting in June
2016 between Donald Trump Jr., the president’s eldest son, and a Kremlin-associated lawyer.
Conservatives in Congress, meanwhile, who spent years venerating President Vladimir Putin, seem to
be willing to look the other way regarding evidence of Russian intervention in the 2016 election.
On his way to Paris, Mr. Trump offered his first extended account of his closed-door meeting with the Russian leader last week.
Mr. Trump said he’d stopped questioning President Vladimir Putin about interfering in the election after he had denied it.
