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President Trump Changed His Story on Son's Meeting with Russian Lawyer

posted by martyb on Tuesday August 07 2018, @05:08PM   Printer-friendly
from the "A-Tale-of-Flodden-Field" dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

5News reports:

President Donald Trump appears to have changed his story about a 2016 meeting at Trump Tower that is pivotal to the special counsel's investigation, tweeting that his son met with a Kremlin-connected lawyer to collect information about his political opponent.

[...] That is a far different explanation than Trump gave 13 months ago, when a statement dictated by the president but released under the name of Donald Trump Jr., read: "We primarily discussed a program about the adoption of Russian children that was active and popular with American families years ago."

also at Vox, MSN and Mic

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  • (Score: 5, Informative) by DeathMonkey on Tuesday August 07 2018, @07:48PM (4 children)

    by DeathMonkey (1380) on Tuesday August 07 2018, @07:48PM (#718416) Journal

    As uber trump hater Strzok also said, collusion is not a crime.

    You're right, it's multiple crimes. [washingtonpost.com]

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  • (Score: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 07 2018, @10:25PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 07 2018, @10:25PM (#718473)

    No, thats not what he meant. And he was the one in charge of the investigation, who said he didnt want to waste any more time with it careerwise since "there was no there there". People have apparently come up with their own armchair legal advice to disagree with FBI and DoJ who public records show were investigating trump, totaly biased against him, but didnt think there was anything there. Read the actual reports by the people involved and listen to their testimony.

    • (Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Tuesday August 07 2018, @11:49PM (1 child)

      by DeathMonkey (1380) on Tuesday August 07 2018, @11:49PM (#718517) Journal

      "there was no there there".

      Whelp, turns out the guy who was swiftly removed from the investigation due to a conflict of interest was wrong. "Cause we're "there" already and "there" keeps getting bigger every time a lie is exposed.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 08 2018, @11:47AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 08 2018, @11:47AM (#718733)

        swiftly removed from the investigation

        What? He wasnt swiftly removed, he decided he didnt want to do it. You need to go watch the Strzok hearing and read the OIG report on all this.

    • (Score: 2) by sjames on Tuesday August 07 2018, @11:55PM

      by sjames (2882) on Tuesday August 07 2018, @11:55PM (#718521) Journal

      If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.