Russian attorney Natalia Veselnitskaya has offered to testify before the Senate on her meeting last summer with Donald Trump Jr. during his father's presidential campaign.
A wave of speculation has surrounded last June's meeting between Veselnitskaya and Trump Jr. on whether it indicated possible collusion between Presidential Donald Trump's campaign and Russia, Politico reported.
"I'm ready to clarify the situation behind the mass hysteria—but only through lawyers or testifying in the Senate," Veselnitskaya said Tuesday in an interview with the Russian government-funded television network RT, according to Reuters.
Some suspicions of collusion between the Trump campaign and Moscow stem from the fact that new information about the meeting has continued to trickle out. The most notable evolving storyline concerns the number of people who attended the meeting.
Initial press reports said there were only four people in attendance: Trump Jr., Veselnitskaya, President Trump's son-in-law and now-senior adviser, Jared Kushner, and then-campaign manager Paul Manafort. However, it is now known that there were at least eight people present at the meeting, including a Russian-American lobbyist and former Soviet counterintelligence officer.
Trump Jr. initially took the meeting because he was told that Veselnitskaya was in possession of damaging information about his father's Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton.
After the story broke, Trump Jr. released emails between himself and former British tabloid reporter Rob Goldstone, who helped arrange the meeting between the two, that revealed they were planning to meet to discuss "compromising information."
Veselnitskaya has denied having any ties to the Russian government and said she never possessed compromising information on Clinton.