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Washington • President Donald Trump's campaign committee made a payment to the law firm of an attorney representing Donald Trump Jr. last month, nearly two weeks before it was announced that the same attorney would be representing the president's son in Russia-related probes, according to a new campaign finance report filed Saturday.

The committee reported in the filing to the Federal Election Commission that it paid $50,000 to the law firm of attorney Alan Futerfas on June 27. That payment was made 13 days before it was publicly revealed that Futerfas would represent Trump's eldest son in the Russia investigations.

News of the payment came as controversy has swirled in recent days around Trump Jr. and a meeting he held in June 2016 with a Kremlin-connected lawyer who was said to have potentially damaging information about Hillary Clinton, the Democratic opponent of Trump in the presidential election.

The filing also revealed that the campaign committee paid the Trump Organization — the company run by Trump Jr. and his brother, Eric — more than $89,000 on June 30 for "legal consulting."

Futerfas did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment Saturday. On July 10, two days after Trump Jr.'s meeting was publicly revealed by the New York Times, Futerfas confirmed that he was hired to represent him but did not say when that took place.

Trump Jr. has offered a series of evolving explanations for his meeting with the Russian lawyer — also attended by Jared Kushner, the president's son-in-law and senior aide, and Paul Manafort, the former Trump campaign chairman — since it was first made public. He first said the meeting was about adoptions, then acknowledged it was set up with someone who might have useful information for his father's campaign. On Tuesday, Trump Jr. publicly released an email exchange showing that he was promised incriminating "high level" information on Clinton as "part of Russia and its government's support for" his father.

Trump Jr. previously said he held no meetings with Russians while "representing the campaign in any way, shape or form" and called "disgusting" the suggestion that Russia was attempting to help his father's presidential campaign. U.S. intelligence agencies have concluded that Russia sought to help elect Trump, a determination the president has publicly questioned. Congress and a special counsel are investigating alleged collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.

New details have continued to emerge about Trump Jr.'s meeting, including the revelation last week that a Russian-American lobbyist and Soviet military veteran was there. Futerfas has said the meeting was insignificant, telling The Washington Post in an interview Friday that recalling who attended this gathering was difficult both because of how unimportant it was and the time that has passed.

"The frustrating part of all this for me is that this meeting occurred 13 months ago," he said. "There is no record, no list of who was there. It was not a memorable meeting for anyone. Now 13 months later, everyone expects we should have a perfect recollection."

The White House has tried to play down the meeting's significance. While speaking with reporters on Air Force One during a flight to Paris late Wednesday, Trump defended his son and dismissed the meeting, which he said he had learned about earlier in the week. Trump said that most people who work in politics "are going to take that meeting."

"He's a good boy," Trump said of his 39-year-old son. "He's a good kid. And he had a meeting, nothing happened with the meeting. It was a short meeting as he told me because I only heard about it two or three days ago."

The filing Saturday also showed that the campaign committee paid legal fees to Jones Day, which served as the campaign's principal law firm throughout the election. It was paid $538,265 between early May and late June, according to the new filing.

The campaign committee did not immediately respond to requests for comment about the payments to Futerfas or the Trump Organization, nor did Alan Garten, the chief legal officer at the company.

Earlier this year, Trump's campaign committee was asked by the Senate Intelligence Committee to gather and produce Russia-related documents, emails and phone records, drawing the political group into the investigation.