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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 DutchUncle on Wednesday August 08 2018, @06:01PM (1 child)

    by DutchUncle (5370) on Wednesday August 08 2018, @06:01PM (#718887)

    What's really scary is that I know people who wrote in Bernie rather than vote for Hillary against Trump. Maybe that didn't matter in my state, but "making a statement" sometimes makes the statement "I don't know how elections work."

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 08 2018, @06:14PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 08 2018, @06:14PM (#718892)

    A LOT of what happened with 2016 can be blamed on everybody thinking that Hillary was going to win and thus using her as a punching bag to boost their own bona fides.

    The press thought she was going to win, so they spent 100x more effort chasing that breitbart published "Clinton Cash" propaganda than they did on Trump's 30+ year public record of towering corruption.

    The GOP thought she was going to win so they embraced trump in order to keep the most despicable part of their base voting in down ballot elections.

    The sanders wing thought she was going to win so they were content to let the slurs against her go unchallenged.

    Comey thought she was going to win so he took every opportunity to dunk on her in order to bolster the reputation of the FBI.

    Obama thought she was going to win so his administration didn't do enough to fight putin's attacks.

    But turns out that when everybody just thinks something is going to happen but doesn't work to make it happen, it doesn't actually happen.