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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, @03:59AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 08 2018, @03:59AM (#718637)

    It came out at the Comey hearing that the fbi initiated an investigation of the Trump due to information paid for by the clinton campaign from russian spys (via fusion gps).

    No, it didn't. What came out is that the investigation started when Papadapolous wagged his drunk tongue to an Australian diplomat [nytimes.com] about the russians helping the campaign and that diplomat reported it to the FBI.

    The steele dossier had nothing to do with the opening of the investigation - it didn't even exist yet. It was only used as adjunct material for a fisa warrant on carter page, a person that they previously got a warrant on in 2013. [justsecurity.org] And when they did get the dossier-assisted warrant in October 2016, Page was officially off the campaign since at least the previous month. [politico.com]

    As for the general question of oppo research being used to justify opening an FBI investigation on a presidential candidate? Tell that HIllary Clinton who was investigated by the FBI largely on the basis of the Bannon/Mercer funded Clinton Cash oppo-research "book." [washingtonpost.com]

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 08 2018, @11:50AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 08 2018, @11:50AM (#718737)

    No, it didn't. What came out is that the investigation started when Papadapolous wagged his drunk tongue to an Australian diplomat [nytimes.com] about the russians helping the campaign and that diplomat reported it to the FBI.

    The steele dossier had nothing to do with the opening of the investigation - it didn't even exist yet.

    This is just flat out wrong, according to Strzok's testimony. Watch it, look at the actual evidence.