Posted on 07/31/2017 5:50:50 PM PDT by CaptainK
On the sidelines of the Group of 20 summit in Germany last month, President Trump’s advisers discussed how to respond to a new revelation that Trump’s oldest son had met with a Russian lawyer during the 2016 campaign — a disclosure the advisers knew carried political and potentially legal peril.
The strategy, the advisers agreed, should be for Donald Trump Jr. to release a statement to get ahead of the story. They wanted to be truthful, so their account couldn’t be repudiated later if the full details emerged.
But within hours, at the president’s direction, the plan changed.
Flying home from Germany on July 8 aboard Air Force One, Trump personally dictated a statement in which Trump Jr. said that 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. The statement, issued to the New York Times as it prepared an article, emphasized that the subject of the meeting was “not a campaign issue at the time.”
The claims were later shown to be misleading.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Oh Lord. Back to Russia????? It was so nice to have a news break from Russia. If nothing else, the Mooch kept Russia out of the news.
WaPo = A Whale of Poo
Don’t believe these Lying Leftist Media outlets that proved themselves during the 2016 campaign to be operatives of the DNC and intentional liars. They are presumed to be lying and we should presume what they publish is a lie. The presumption can only be rebutted with the outlet providing clear and convincing evidence they are not lying.
We should be mostly publishing the truth on FR, not the lies, and as much good news as possible to bolster morale. We should find and post reliable sources that have already deconstructed the lie and replaced it with the truth and with a headline that says the truth. We need much more of that on FR IMO. The key is the headline and the first few sentences because not everyone has time to drill down. The endless stream of negative, lying headlines sabotages our purpose IMO.
If so, just because the President helped his son prepare his statement doesn’t mean it’s untrue. Don Jr. still testified under oath as to its veracity. Much ado about nothing.
These people are psychotic.
4 libtards still can’t change a light bulb together.
On the other thread, Ultra Sonic 007 said this:
“according to multiple people with knowledge of the deliberations.”
“said one of the president’s advisers, who like most other people interviewed for this article spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive internal deliberations.”
“Because Trump believes he is innocent, some advisers explained, he therefore does not think he is at any legal risk for a coverup. In his mind, they said, there is nothing to conceal. “
“In one scenario, these people said”
“according to people with knowledge of the discussions.”
“according to people with knowledge of the events.”
Funny how no one’s willing to put their name out. Why not show some guts and become immortalized in the eyes of all your liberal buddies? But nah, it’s all anonymous.
FAKE news.
Nobody cares.
WaPo can go investigate DWS and the Shillary, because this Russia collusion dog don’t hunt.
I don’t know about you, but I can handle reading the lies and seeing it for what it is. Actually I see a lot of good points that refute the negative news here on FR. We are the source that can deconstruct the lie. Most of us anyway.
This is said to occur on AF1.......limited number of folks that would be privy to that......sounds like something a former Chief of Staff would know
I don’t know how hard the dems want to go back to the “Russia” thing...
The Senate Judiciary Committee okaying another investigation into Clinton, Podesta, et al may slow them down somewhat...
Riiiiight.
From silly to pathetic.
sewer gossip column. been that way at least since valerie plame becamse a “spy”.
If President Trump were 1% the “fascist” they accuse him of being the Washington Post would be nothing but a bad memory.
Yes , and for sure they are pumping him big time for all the dirt they can get.
GO FLOG A DEAD HORSE!
A pissed off “fired” former CoS turned “leaker”....
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