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.
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It wasn’t a *short introductory meeting.” It was a full meeting at which they expected to get ammunition for the campaign.
Yes, like Trump’s Luciferian, secret society/DEEP STATE/Masonic, enemies do all the time. They shouldn’t do that.
So what.....how do this story compare with the vast number of unprosecuted crimes committed by the Democrats......? Hillary, Obama, Debbie Wasserman Schlitz.....all belong in federal prison for life.
The press statement was not misleading. Instead the press used incorrect grammatical interpretation to find a lie that wasn’t there.
You can infer all you want from what was not stated, but I trust that unlike the press you will not misrepresent a very clear statement.
Nonsense, truth-twister....there is a reason why EVANGELICAL CHRISTIANS SUPPORT TRUMP & the Satan worshippers hate him......
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