White House tries to play down meeting of Trump Jr., Russian lawyer as new details emerge

[DonViejo]

Source: The Washington Post




By Rosalind S. Helderman, Tom Hamburger and Greg Miller July 10 at 11:39 PM

The White House on Monday was forced to shift from denying contact between the Trump campaign and Russia to defending a meeting that President Trump’s eldest son had in the midst of the presidential race with a Russian lawyer purportedly offering damaging information about Hillary Clinton.

The White House sought to play down the significance of that encounter even as new details emerged indicating that it had been arranged at the behest of a Russian family that has ties to the Kremlin and a history of pursuing business deals with President Trump — including preliminary plans for a Trump Tower in Moscow.

The controversy deepened late Monday with a new report that Donald Trump Jr. had been informed via email that the information on Clinton was part of a Russian government plan to help his father’s campaign. The New York Times, which broke the story, cited three unnamed people who had seen the email.

The revelations put the Trump administration again on the defensive about its relationship with Moscow, and they seemed to add to a pattern of not disclosing Kremlin contacts or providing false information about them.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/kremlin-denies-knowing-of-donald-trump-jr-meeting-with-russian-lawyer-during-2016-campaign/2017/07/10/c2bfee34-6566-11e7-a1d7-9a32c91c6f40_story.html

[Botany]

1. How many times did Trump and company say that they had no contact w/the Russians?

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FLASHBACK: Mike Pence January 2017.

Q: Did any Trump campaign member have contact with the Russians?

Pence: "Of course not.”

[Pacifist Patriot]

5. I'm not sure I can count that high.

[ananda]

2. It's not normal or legal!

It's out and out treason!

[watoos]

4. It's really too bad

we don't actually have a liberal M$M or we would indeed be hearing that word, "treason." Instead we hear that what Trump people are doing isn't even against the law. Sad.

[GusBob]

3. LOLz "seemd to add to a pattern" Thank God Mueller is on the case

The press has no backbone

[Cryptoad]

6. Looks like ,,,,,,

POTUS has thrown his own blood under the bus and hung him out to dry! No way did Comrade Donald not know about this meeting!

[bucolic_frolic]

7. Yeah, it's just a coincidence

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