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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 08 2018, @01:24AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 08 2018, @01:24AM (#718556)

    Is there any reason they thought the russians they were talking to were one of the excluded groups?

    When DJTjr went full Fredo and just tweeted out the emails about setting up the meeting, [theguardian.com] he proved that he was literally told that he was meeting with "the crown prosecutor of Russia” who was there to provide the trump campaign with "very high level and sensitive information but is part of Russia and its government’s support for Mr Trump."

    I mean your story has an obvious hole in it.

    You are an obvious hole

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 08 2018, @02:21AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 08 2018, @02:21AM (#718602)

    So you are saying they met with the crown prosecutor of russia? Or now that meeting with someone who was told something by another person is the same as meeting with the "other person"?

    Its still a consistent story with precise and weasely wording by the trump campaign.