Trump and Putin, behind the scenes

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The Russian lawyer who met with Donald Trump Jr. last June at Trump Tower, under the guise of offering the Trump campaign damaging information on Hillary Clinton, may have been a "dangle" aimed at enticing then-candidate Donald Trump and his associates into colluding during the campaign.

"I absolutely think this was a dangle," said Mieke Eoyang, a former House Intelligence Committee staffer and now the vice president for the national security program at the organization Third Way.  "I would assume it was not the only one, and that we’ll hear more about these efforts as we go along." Joseph Nye, a professor emeritus at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government who formerly served as chair of the National Intelligence Council, also said it was plausible Veselnitskaya was used to determine whether the Trump campaign was open to colluding with Russia. "The Kremlin is not so soft hearted that it would set up a meeting to restore adoptions," Nye said.

"It probably wasn't as fruitless as Trump Jr. is saying," he said.  "It's like peeling an onion. This is just layer after layer that keeps coming out."  

Indeed, the email exchange between Trump Jr. and Rob Goldstone, the British music publicist who arranged the meeting between Veselnitskaya and the Trump campaign, appears to align with a series of pivotal moments during the 2016 campaign. 

Was Natalia Veselnitskaya 'dangled' for Trump? Experts think so - Business Insider

Yea, unlikely to have been the only effort, especially given the enthusiastic reception it received..