According to the “multiple people” cited in the Post story, President Trump dictated the statement used by Trump Jr. while flying back from the G20 summit in Europe on Air Force One.
Apparently having the skill of mind-reading, the “multiple people” said the original plan was to have Trump Jr. release a “truthful” statement about the meeting and its purpose, but that the President decided to craft a misleading statement instead.
What’s left out of the attribution for the article is what hallucinogens the “multiple people” might have ingested on the flight home from Europe.
When asked for a response to the report, Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders referred media to President Trump’s outside counsel. Other media immediately have taken the story and run with it.
Jay Sekulow, an attorney for the President, issued a statement, saying, “Apart from being of no consequence, the characterizations are misinformed, inaccurate, and not pertinent.”
Donald Trump Jr.’s attorney, Alan Futerfas, noted that the drafting process for the statement was “communal,” and there’s “no evidence” to support the Post’s claim regarding the president’s involvement.
Apparently, the Post attitude is “Evidence? Evidence? We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Evidence! We just make it up!”
Who needs evidence when you have multiple unidentified people knowledgeable about the situation? Why let facts get in the way of a good story?
When asked about the Trump Jr. statement at the time of its release, Sekulow had this comment:
I wasn’t involved in the statement drafting at all, nor was the President. I’m assuming that was between Mr. Donald Trump Jr., between Don Jr. and his lawyer.”
The meeting between Donald Trump, Jr. and Russian attorney Natalia Veselnitskaya has been characterized as a meeting for the lawyer to provide the Trump campaign with information detrimental to Trump presidential opponent Hillary Clinton.
The initial Trump Jr. statement said the meeting was about discussing the Russian ban on U.S. adoptions of Russian children, which in fact turned out to be a large part of the meeting’s discussion. In that sense, it was not misleading. It simply stated what was discussed, not what the intended purpose was.
Whatever the original purpose of the meeting, it certainly isn’t a crime for a private American citizen to meet with a private Russian citizen, despite the fake news media attempt to make it appear sinister.
The media continues to overlook the number of people in the meeting, some of whom, including the Russian lawyer, have links to the Fusion GPS firm that created the phony dossier on Donald Trump alleging a number of improprieties when he was in Russia. The document was debunked at the time of its release last year.
The involvement of Fusion GPS would appear to suggest the meeting was arranged under false pretenses and designed as a sting operation to create a detrimental impression of the Trump campaign and family members.
Source: Washington Post
Don’t they know how foolish they look and continue to look with all the ridiculous nonsense?
Tom Skinner right but you will NEVER convince the democrats …..save your energy. The proof is there but they are too damned blind and full of hate to see it. It’s not worth arguing with these cretins.