Article snippet: Donald Trump Jr. has hired a lawyer to represent him in matters related to the investigation into Russian interference in last year's presidential election and possible collusion with the Trump campaign. Alan Futerfas, a criminal defense attorney based in New York City, will represent the president's eldest son. Donald Trump Jr. earlier responded to news reports about his meeting during the campaign season with Natalia Veselnitskaya, a Russian lawyer, suggesting that he did not do anything out of the ordinary. News of the June 2016 meeting broke this weekend, and Trump said he went to to it after being told by an acquaintance that a person "might have information helpful to the campaign," according to a statement from him given to ABC News on Sunday night. This morning he tweeted a sarcastic defense, writing, "Obviously I'm the first person on a campaign to ever take a meeting to hear info about an opponent... went nowhere but had to listen." His post included a Drudge Report tweet with a link to a New York Post article that called a New York Times story about his previously undisclosed meeting with Veselnitskaya "a big yawn." He later tweeted the link directly. In response to a subsequent New York Times tweet that said Trump gave two different explanations for the meeting in the course of 24 hours, he wrote, "No inconsistency in statements, meeting ended up being primarily about adoptions. In response to further Q's I simply provided more details... Link to the full article to read more