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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: 2) by arslan on Tuesday August 07 2018, @11:06PM (2 children)

    by arslan (3462) on Tuesday August 07 2018, @11:06PM (#718498)

    That's what I'm seeing on the sidelines. Here's my read, not the exact words, but more how I'm interpreting it:

    Don/Don Jr: We didn't meet the Russians on anything regarding the campaign

    [Later] Don/Don Jr: We met the Russians regarding child adoption stuff.

    Anti-Trumpers & MSM: OMG! Mutually exclusive statements! Lies!! Treason!!

    Me: There could be something there, there could also not be. Someone should apply some elbow grease to find out. Sure if the question is solely about "meeting the Russians" regardless of context/topic, they did lie - but I've also learnt long time ago context is very important, having myself been taken out of context many many times by political backstabbers in the office...

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 08 2018, @12:22AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 08 2018, @12:22AM (#718532)

    It was not about child adoption. It was about Putin adopting Trump.

    • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 08 2018, @06:47PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 08 2018, @06:47PM (#718915)

      That is about adopting a child.