Trump 'personally dictated' false statement about son's meeting with Russian lawyer
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/7/31/1685881/-Washington-Post-Trump-personally-dictated-false-statement-about-son-s-meeting-with-Russian-lawyer
On the very same day that Trump's new chief of staff takes on the job, he gets his first crisis. The Washington Post is reporting that the false characterization of the meeting between Russian government-sent individuals and the Donald Trump campaign, including Donald Trump Jr. and son-in-law Jared Kushner, was crafted by Donald Trump himself.
Flying home from Germany on July 8 aboard Air Force One, Trump personally dictated a statement in which Trump Jr. said he and the Russian lawyer had “primarily discussed a program about the adoption of Russian children” when they met in June 2016, according to multiple people with knowledge of the deliberations. The statement, issued to the New York Times as it prepared a story, emphasized that the subject of the meeting was “not a campaign issue at the time.”...
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