On Monday evening, the Washington Post reported that Donald Trump was directly involved in preparing the cover story for the Trump Tower meeting between his senior campaign staff and a team of propagandists provided by the Russian government.
Flying home from Germany on July 8 aboard Air Force One, Trump personally dictated a statement in which Trump Jr. said he and the Russian lawyer had “primarily discussed a program about the adoption of Russian children” when they met in June 2016, according to multiple people with knowledge of the deliberations.
Not only does this show Trump’s personal involvement in crafting the cover-up story, it’s literally the same cover story that Trump himself used in brushing aside reports of his lengthy, unmonitored conversation with Vladimir Putin.
President Donald Trump told The New York Times on Wednesday that he and Russia's president Vladimir Putin discussed adoption when they huddled on the sidelines of the G-20 in Germany last month.
And it directly contradicts the statement from Trump’s lawyer in which he denied any involvement in providing the cover story for the meeting that involved his son, son-in-law, and campaign chair. A statement that threw his son under the bus for crafting what turns out to be a complete fabrication.
Sekulow: I do want to be clear — that the president was not involved in the drafting of the statement and did not issue the statement. It came from Donald Trump Jr. So that’s what I can tell you because that’s what we know.
The statement was a lie. The contention that Trump wasn’t involved in creating the statement was a lie. What does that say about Trump’s description of his own meeting with Putin?
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