Sunday, August 5, the US President acknowledged that his son Donald trump Jr. met with a lawyer from Russia Natalia Veselnitskaya for getting dirt on Hillary Clinton.
As part of a series of morning attacks on Twitter against Robert Mueller, the leading «Russian business», the President acknowledged that the sensational meeting in June 2016 trump Jr. and the Russian lawyer was really to do with getting dirt on Hillary Clinton. However, the President insists that he didn’t know about the meeting and that it was perfectly legal.
Fake News reporting, a complete fabrication, that I am concerned about the meeting my wonderful son, Donald, had in the Trump Tower. This was a meeting to get information on an opponent, totally legal and done all the time in politics — and it went nowhere. I did not know about it!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 5, 2018
Fake News report (a complete lie), that I supposedly worried about meeting my amazing son Donald in Trump Tower. This meeting was the need for information about my opponent and she was absolutely legitimate, from those who constantly are in politics. I knew nothing about it.
«Fake News report (a complete lie), that I supposedly worried about meeting my amazing son Donald in Trump Tower. This meeting was the need for information about my opponent and she was absolutely legitimate, from those who constantly are in politics. I knew nothing about it,» — said the President.
We will remind, in September 2017, Donald trump Jr. was questioned in the Senate on the «Russian case».
Earlier, the father and the son explained to a meeting of other reasons. After the lawyer trump Sr. said that he personally gave permission for the meeting, trump Jr. said publicly that the meeting was on the adoption of Russian children by American families.
During the unfolding political scandal trump Jr. repeatedly revised his testimony and eventually admitted that the reason for the meeting was to obtain compromising information about Hillary Clinton and the Democratic party.
Then Donald trump, Jr. posted on Twitter the e-mails in which he discusses c publicist Rob Goldstone meeting with the Moscow lawyer.
The writer describes the lawyer as «attorney of the Russian government» who has dirt on Clinton. Goldstone wrote Trump, Jr., that «the Russian Prosecutor General… proposed to provide the headquarters of the trump some of the official documents and information that will prove the guilt of Hillary and will publicize its relationship with Russia and would be very useful» to his father. This trump Jr. said that he was interested in this information.
At a press conference shortly after the announcement of his son’s senior trump, again tried to downplay the significance of the meeting, calling it short.
The President also claimed that «from a practical point of view most people can understand.» «Politics is not the most pleasant business in the world, but very standard. Information necessary to take there where it is,» said trump, once again stressing that neither he nor his son did not think that getting from the Russians the data against Clinton is beyond ethical and legal framework.
«I think they were talking about adoption and things like that. In fact, the outcome of the meeting was zero, and frankly, I think the press blows things out of proportion, exaggerating quite ordinary case, which involved a lot of people».
On Sunday, the lawyer trump J. Sekulow recognized that was wrong, claiming that the President trump did not dictate to his son’s statements about the conversation about adoption. «I was ill-informed and made a mistake in his statement. Over time, the facts sometimes undergo changes» — tried to justify Sekulow.
Pres. Trump’s attorney Jay Sekulow on previously denying that the president was involved in putting out a statement on the Trump Tower meeting: «I had bad information at that time and made a mistake in my statement … facts develop over time» https://t.co/GlcWTIu29g #ThisWeek pic.twitter.com/rLLHMmOs2K
— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) August 5, 2018
The lawyer of the President trump J. Sekulow previously denied any involvement in trump’s statement to [his son] about the meeting in the Trump Tower: «I at that time was unreliable information, my words were wrong… Over time, new facts.»
The tramp in his Sunday tweet claimed that he was not aware of the meeting, the Trump Tower with the Russians. However, last week CNN reported that trump’s lawyer Michael Cohen said that the President knew about the upcoming meeting and was ready to tell Muller.
The President insists that between his campaign staff and the Russian government was not collusion. But yesterday, trump recognized the fact that his son had met with a representative of the Kremlin for an agreement.
