Sources: Trump lawyers knew of Russia emails three weeks ago

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Source: Yahoo! News

Michael Isikoff
Chief Investigative Correspondent
Yahoo News
July 13, 2017

WASHINGTON — President Trump’s legal team was informed more than three weeks ago about the email chain arranging a June 2016 meeting between his son Donald Jr. and a Kremlin-connected lawyer, two sources familiar with the handling of the matter told Yahoo News.

Trump told Reuters in an interview on Wednesday that he learned just “a couple of days ago” that Donald Jr. had met with the Russian lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya, hoping to receive information that “would incriminate Hillary” and was “part of Russia and its government’s support for Mr. Trump.” A day earlier, on Tuesday, Donald Jr. released the email exchanges himself, after learning they would be published by the New York Times.

Trump repeated that assertion in a talk with reporters on Air Force One on his way to Paris Wednesday night. “I only heard about it two or three days ago,” he said, according to a transcript of his talk, when asked about the meeting with Veselnitskaya at Trump Tower in June 2016 attended by Donald Trump Jr., Paul Manafort, then Trump’s campaign chief, and Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner.

But the sources told Yahoo News that Marc Kasowitz, the president’s chief lawyer in the Russia investigation, and Alan Garten, executive vice president and chief legal officer of the Trump Organization, were both informed about the emails in the third week of June, after they were discovered by lawyers for Kushner, who is now a senior White House official.

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[Red Mountain]

1. Sure....

We should believe his legal team kept the info (darn legal team)from him a couple of weeks ago and gosh darned is he mad. Might even have to fire somebody.

Takes the pressure off the idea that he knew what was going on when it happened.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

2. Trump Changes Tune On Russian Lawyer Meeting: 'Maybe It Was Mentioned'

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029323886

[BigmanPigman]

3. He changes his stories, time frame, etc more than his undies.

Yet, none of this gets into the media that his fans/groupies ever listen to or warch (notice I didn't use "read" for obvious reasons).

[bucolic_frolic]

4. Wait a minute ... in addition to the confusion they are sewing

confusion having been of great benefit to the Warren Commission,
there is also this idea they threw out for public consumption that these
were inconsequential things of little matter, something so trivial they almost
didn't remember them, and didn't discuss anything anyway .... but but but

THEY DID REMEMBER ENOUGH TO TELL THEIR LAWYERS, didn't they?!!