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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   
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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• The Narcissist's Prayer The Narcissist's Prayer (Score: 5, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 07 2018, @08:46PM (2 children)

  by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 07 2018, @08:46PM (#718431)

  The Narcissist’s Prayer

  That didn’t happen.

  And if it did, it wasn’t that bad.

  And if it was, that’s not a big deal.

  And if it is, that’s not my fault.

  And if it was, I didn’t mean it.

  And if I did…

  You deserved it.

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• Fortune cookie ending (Score: 5, Funny) by Gaaark on Tuesday August 07 2018, @11:02PM

  by Gaaark (41) on Tuesday August 07 2018, @11:02PM (#718493) Journal

  In bed.

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  --- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---

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• Re:The Narcissist's Prayer (Score: 2) by DutchUncle on Wednesday August 22 2018, @07:28PM

  by DutchUncle (5370) on Wednesday August 22 2018, @07:28PM (#724818)

  Today's example:

            President Trump, in his first comments on Michael Cohen's guilty plea, claimed payments to women shouldn’t be a campaign finance issue because “they didn’t come out of the campaign, they came from me."

            Asked if he knew of the payments, he said: “Later on I knew. Later on. But you have to understand, what he did -- and they weren’t taken out of campaign finance, that’s the big thing. That’s a much bigger thing. Did they come out of the campaign? They didn’t come out of the campaign, they came from me. And I tweeted about it. You know, I put -- I don’t know if you know but I tweeted about the payments.

  ((( Hint: No, he was saying all along that he knew nothing, that he made no such deals, that it was all someone else. )))

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