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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, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 07 2018, @09:03PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 07 2018, @09:03PM (#718434)

    He doesn't care about consistency because he's not trying to persuade anyone. All he's doing is giving people who want to believe him an excuse they can use to avoid confronting the truth. His lies shield his cultists from hard facts, but if you aren't in the cult then he doesn't care what you think.

    Remember that old line:

    You can fool all of the people some of the time, and you can fool some of the people all of the time; but you can’t fool all the people all the time.

    Trump's target audience is the group of people he can fool all of the time.

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