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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: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 08 2018, @07:12PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 08 2018, @07:12PM (#718930)

    being a progressive is worse than being a damn commie...

    Russia isn't communist anymore. They've reverted to a sort of tsarist feudalism. And the US had a hand in that, when the wall came down and their society started to collapse we sent in the agents of unfettered capitalism and they did everything that the commies were afraid the west would do. The end result was the rise of the robber-baron oligarchs who just took state resources for themselves.

    I don't know if we could have made a difference, but we certainly didn't try to help the country transition to a representative democracy, we just kinda assumed it would automatically happen because we have this dangerous myth that liberal order is self-assembling when the reality is that it is the exact opposite, it takes experience, skill, lots and lots of hard work and way too much luck. Its very much like the rise of ISIS after we kicked over Sadam's bureaucracy and couldn't be bothered to build anything in its place.

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  • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday August 08 2018, @11:57PM

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Wednesday August 08 2018, @11:57PM (#719121) Journal

    Yeah, if Reagan were smart (and not already half-senile with Alzheimer's...) he'd have tried a sort of second Marshall Plan.

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