Trump Ally Drastically Changes Story About Altering GOP Platform On Ukraine

[DonViejo]

Source: Talking Points Memo


By ALLEGRA KIRKLAND Published MARCH 3, 2017, 2:16 PM EDT

In a significant reversal, a Trump campaign official on Thursday told CNN that he personally advocated for softening the language on Ukraine in the GOP platform at the Republican National Convention, and that he did so on behalf of the President.

CNN’s Jim Acosta reported on air that J.D. Gordon, the Trump campaign’s national security policy representative at the RNC, told him that he made the change to include language that he claimed “Donald Trump himself wanted and advocated for” at a March 2016 meeting at then-unfinished Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C.

Gordon claimed that Trump said he did not “want to go to World War III over Ukraine” during that meeting, Acosta said.

Yet Gordon had told Business Insider in January that he “never left” the side table where he sat monitoring the national security subcommittee meeting, where a GOP delegate's amendment calling for the provision of “lethal defense weapons” to the Ukrainian army was tabled. At the time, Gordon said “neither Mr. Trump nor [former campaign manager] Mr. [Paul] Manafort were involved in those sort of details, as they've made clear."



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[Raster]

1. oh goody... More Shoes DROPPING!

By this time next week, members of Team tRump* will be doubting they know their own mothers.

[Fred Sanders]

2. No one knew that rigging an election for President could be so complicated.

[reflection]

3. .

[Chemisse]

8. Especially when the candidate you choose is both stupid and narcissistic.

The poor little rich boy is finally finding out there are consequences.

[paleotn]

4. Looks like the rattlesnakes are committing suicide..

I'm beginning to smell quid pro quo. Promise to loosen sanctions, and Russia we'll help him win the White House.

[Warpy]

6. Nah, they're just dropping their prey

and hoping we'll let them slither into their hidey holes.

Personally, I hope there is mass emigration or the population of Leavenworth is going to get a lot bigger.

[wishstar]

5. Interesting- implicates Trump as responsible for change- Trump and Co lied about being involved

"Discussion of changes to the platform, which drew attention to the ties to a pro-Russia political party in Ukraine that fueled Manafort's resignation as Trump’s campaign chairman, resurfaced Thursday in a USA Today story. The newspaper revealed that Gordon and Carter Page, another former Trump adviser, met with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak at the GOP convention.

Trump and his team have long insisted that his campaign had no contact with Russian officials during the 2016 race, and that they were not behind softening the language on Ukraine in the Republican Party platform.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Thursday recused himself from all cases involving the Trump campaign, after the Washington Post revealed that he failed to disclose during his confirmation hearing that he had two meetings with the Russian ambassador during the campaign. Michael Flynn also stepped down as national security adviser in a cloud of controversy over reports that he spoke with Kislyak about sanctions against Russia during the post-election transition period.

Gordon acknowledged meeting with Kislyak to both CNN and USA Today on Thursday, and said that the conversation focused only on Trump’s oft-stated belief that “the U.S. and Russia should have a better relationship"

[OnDoutside]

7. Trump couldn't even SPELL Ukraine, let alone point to it on a map, unless someone was telling

him what to say.

[Blue Idaho]

9. THIS