UPDATED Trump Lawyer Blames Secret Service For Not Preemptively Stopping Jr.'s Meeting

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Source: Talking Points Memo


By ESME CRIBB Published JULY 16, 2017 9:59 AM

Jay Sekulow, a member of President Donald Trump’s legal team, on Sunday aired a new defense for Donald Trump Jr.’s meeting with a Russian lawyer who promised him damaging information on Hillary Clinton: The Secret Service should not have “allowed these people in” to meet with Trump’s eldest son.

“I wonder why the Secret Service, if this was nefarious, why the Secret Service allowed these people in,” Sekulow said on ABC’s “This Week,” referring to Trump’s protection detail as the Republican candidate. “The President had Secret Service protection at that point, and that raised a question with me.”

Trump Jr. arranged the meeting with Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya after he was promised compromising information on Hillary Clinton as part of a Russian state effort to aid his father’s campaign.

Sekulow said he had not talked to Trump about whether the President would eliminate the possibility of pardoning associates caught up in the federal investigation into possible collusion between members of Trump’s campaign and Russian officials to interfere in the 2016 election.

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Trump Lawyer On Russia Meeting: POTUS Wasn’t There And Didn’t Know Anything

By ESME CRIBB Published JULY 16, 2017 10:17 AM

A member of President Donald Trump’s legal team on Sunday insisted that Trump knew nothing about and did not attend his eldest son’s meeting with a Russian lawyer who promised alleged damaging information on Hillary Clinton as part of a Russian state effort to help Trump’s campaign.

Asked on NBC News’ “Meet the Press” if he knew the names of everyone who attended Trump Jr.’s meeting with Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya, Jay Sekulow said he did not and went on to insist unprompted that Trump was not among their number.

“I don’t represent Donald Trump Jr. and I do not know everyone for sure that was at that meeting and the President was not at the meeting,” Sekulow said. “I can tell you he was not there. The President was not aware of the meeting and did not attend it.”

Sekulow said Trump “became aware of it very recently” and that he learned of the meeting “about the same time, almost exactly the same time.”

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[CincyDem]

1. Everything is always someone else's fault.

Classic malignant narcissistic behavior...internalize any perception of success and externalize any perception of imperfection.

Time to call the Whammmmmmbulance for DJT.

[thesquanderer]

10. Well, that's pretty much his job.

Any lawyer basically only says two things when representing someone in a potentially criminal activity...

either

(a) it didn't happen,

or, if it did,

(b) it was someone else's fault.

That sums up their job.

(That said, blaming the Secret Service sounds absurd.)

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

29. But it works better if the excuses aren't weapons-grade stupid.

[Grins]

47. I think you mean it's ALWAYS Obama's fault.

Boston Marathon, Ebola, Jade Helm, Chemtrails? All Obama's fault.

Information that came from Bush's torture policy? Obama's Fault (Liz Cheney).
Putin? Obama's fault (Rep. Alan West.)
The rise of Trump? Obama; because he "lowered the bar" (Noonan).
Cardinal Ross Douthat: Barack Obama and liberalism are to blame - for Trump.
Trump's rise? Obama's fault (Bobby Jindal.)
Katrina? Obama's fault.
Failing To Pass DREAM Act that Romney pledged to veto? Obama's fault (Romney Adviser Carlos Gutierrez.)
And on, and on, and on.....

And this will hold true until the next Democrat moves into the White House.

[Beartracks]

54. Didn't someone also blame 9/11 on Pres. Obama?

... Which, like Katrina, was way before he was even on the national scene or in the Oval Office.

=========

[Grins]

58. Yes!

Yes!! And good catch.

Day-time Dracula, Rudy "9-11" Ghouliani blamed Barack Obama for 9/11 at the Republican Convention last August. But he went a mile further and added (Brace yourself!!!):

"...under those eight years, before Obama came along, we didn't have ANY successful radical Islamic terrorist attack in the United States. They ALL STARTED when Clinton and Obama got into office."

Can't think of ONE, Mr. Mayor? One....?

From The Daily Show at that same convention:
Trump supporter at Ohio rally: "Barack Obama had a big part in 9/11. Not being around, always on vacation, never in the office."

Interviewer: "Why do you think Barack Obama wasn't in the Oval Office on 9/11?"

Trump supporter: "That I don't know. I'd like to get to bottom of that."

Idiots.

[Turbineguy]

2. This Sekulow guy sounds like

the Colonel Klink of the operation. Does he play violin too?

[pangaia]

21. Violin??

Violin?

Please delete your post.
It is offensive to great violinists.

Such as Kyung-Why Chung
Gidon Kremer
Vadim Repin
Sayaka Shoji
Itzhak Perman
Maxim Vengerov

[cstanleytech]

38. Actually Klemperer was an excellent violinist in real life as well as playing the piano. nt

[pangaia]

39. I didn't know that...

[cstanleytech]

41. Yup, it always makes me laugh when I see him spoofing Klinks bad

playing.

[Turbineguy]

61. Which explains why

he was so incredibly good at playing so badly as Klink.

[jmowreader]

42. He plays fiddle while Trump burns Rome. Does that count?

[PatSeg]

3. Where did this Bozo get his law degree?

Trump University? Did he just admit Junior's guilt and blame it on the Secret Service?

[William Seger]

16. Same guy who said Trump is and isn't under investigation

... and TrumpCo is too stupid to keep him away from cameras.

[PatSeg]

32. Oh yeah

"Let me make one thing perfectly clear, the president isn't under investigation", right after he said Trump was under investigation three times! Stupid seems to magnetize stupid.

[MBS]

56. here's his wikipedia page

Bizarre career and life-course, IMO
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Sekulow

[Glimmer of Hope]

62. What a scumbag.

[MBS]

63. oh, yeah.

Nutcase, too.

[PatSeg]

64. So many of the people

in Trump world come across as characters out of a book or movie. Even then they'd be too far-fetched to believe.

[MBS]

65. oh, yes, exactly!

You managed to put into words my own still-vague impression about this cast of characters (the closest I'd gotten to a simile was the motley and bizarre bar clientele in the first Star Wars movie).

[PatSeg]

67. Ha, ha, ha

Yeah, that will work, though the Star Wars characters would be more believable!

[JohnQFunk]

4. The Secret Service's job is to protect Trump, not baby-sit him!

Sekulow sounded like an idiot. Trump did not choose wisely.

[rzemanfl]

5. I have it on excellent authoritiy the blame lies with Otis.

They should not allow Russian spies to operate their elevators. SAD!

[Moostache]

7. I think you have the right name....Otis....but this one:

He seems to fit the cut of a "Trump man"...

[ananda]

6. Umm.. because that's not the Secret Service's job...

Seriously malignant idiocy reigns, along with a lot of
chaos, hate and fear ... and here we are, talking
about it.

[exboyfil]

8. I quite possibly think that is the most

stupid thing a lawyer has ever said.

By that same reasoning why the hell would the Secret Service allow Trump be in the room with Putin without protection. Former KGB with a body count to match.

[OnDoutside]

48. He has to pitch it to Trump's extremely stupid support.

[WePurrsevere]

9. Pfft! It doesn't matter if or why the Secret Service "allowed" this...

I'm pretty sure that their job is merely to protect the people they're assigned to from 'physical' attacks not to protect them from themselves when they 'choose' to be a stupid traitor in a private 'business' meeting.

Even 'if' their job was to stop you from being a traitor and they failed at that, it doesn't make YOU any less guilty of being a friggin TRAITOR.

[central scrutinizer]

45. If it was a nothing burger meeting

Why would the SS feel the need to stop it? So is this a back door admission that it was an illegal, substantive meeting?

[WePurrsevere]

49. They wouldn't. It's normally not the job...

of the SS to stop what 'appears' to be a normal biz meeting.

I suppose that it's also possible that the SS was working with another IC to uncover something but from what I've heard that would be unique.

The quasi-admission that it was illegal comes from trying to deny that it happened, then lying about why when more came out more and continuing to blatantly lie about the whole damn thing. People who believe that they're truly innocent don't act like this.

[Archae]

11. Don't forget who this lawyer is...

Jay Sekulow.

Pat Robertson's liar for Jay-zus for decades.

[FreeStateDemocrat]

22. You bet, Jay-boy has a Ph.D. from Regent U...

Regent University is a private Christian research university[4] located in Virginia Beach, Virginia, United States. The university was founded by Pat Robertson in 1977 as Christian Broadcasting Network University, and changed its name to Regent University in 1990.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regent_University

[Bernardo de La Paz]

12. SecServ NOT in business of interfering w elections. Republicons outsource that to Putin. . . . nt

[Bernardo de La Paz]

13. IF the SecServ had stopped it, Republicons would still be howling about it today. . . nt

[NCjack]

14. Perhaps this accusation is just enough to cause a critical 1 second

involuntary hesitation (Question to self: "do I really have to save this asshole?) in leaping in front of Jr. to stop a bullet.

[Jim__]

15. Undoubtedly a plot hatched by Obama and Hillary.

Both of them acting in cahoots with Putin. Oh, the injustice of it all!

[C_U_L8R]

17. Throwing the Secret Service under the bus

to cover your own misdeeds
sure seems like a risky strategy.

[CanonRay]

18. Now that's one of the stupidest cop-outs I've heard.

[pangaia]

19. Well, they also allow dumpster into the white house. so there is that..

[iloveObama12]

20. These clowns...

Lying their asses off

[NastyRiffraff]

23. Seth Abramson on Sekulow:

Link to tweet

[avebury]

30. Oh that is a good one.

[JHan]

55. lolololol

[rurallib]

24. Sounding like Otter in his walk out speech in Animal House

paraphrasing
'In the end isn't all of America to blame for this poor boy going astray?'

[FailureToCommunicate]

25. Darn tooting. And why did the Secret Service let Lincoln get shot?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

26. That's not the Secret Service's job. And even if it was,

why did Jr. have the meeting in the first place?

"It's all the fault of the police! Why didn't they stop me *before* I robbed the bank?"

[SHRED]

27. Jimmy McGill could do better

Better call Saul!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

40. Much better. Jimmy is ethically challenged but not stupid.

[lunasun]

28. Turning on the secret service hmmmm. What will that get the trump family?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

31. Although they are professionals who understand what the job requires,

I have to wonder whether they sometimes think, "I have to take a bullet for this douche?"

[lunasun]

34. True I wasn't trying to insinuate they were revengeful thugs like the Trumps

Just it will get the trumps no respect from them . Perhaps none of them have any for the trumps after 6 months anyway and these comments from the lawyer are no surprise to them

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

35. I understand that, didn't mean to suggest otherwise.

But the obligation to protect a bunch of dirtbags like the Trumps can't be good for their morale.

[ThoughtCriminal]

33. Once again, "The Party of Personal Responsibility"

"Shoplifting was not my fault. Daddy let me go into the store."

[Sunlei]

36. A Lawyer only says what his client tells him. trump supervises _everything_ his gang does.

Republican party is responsible for their presidents espionage & Russian collusion. They knew about the meeting.

[Nitram]

37. LOL! Is that all he's got?

I've been listening to Sekulow today. He is a piece of work. I'm sure he's worth every penny he's being paid to lie, obfuscate and misdirect.

[christx30]

43. "If robbing that bank was so wrong,

why didn't any of the tellers stop me? Huh?! Motion to dismiss."

[Paladin]

44. Sekulow better rejoin his family in fleecing fundamentalists on TV.

That's his true and vastly profitable calling. If he's reduced to trashing the Secret Service by way of defending trump, he's clearly spiraling downward.....

[joanbarnes]

46. Wait, I thought there was nothing wrong with these meetings?

[OnDoutside]

50. Maybe the secret service should have stopped the Russian

Foreign Minister and the rest of the GRU from entering the Oval Office ?

[MFM008]

51. They should have

Kept maggot and all his spawn OUT of the Oval office.
SAD.

[ollie10]

52. Did Junior, or anyone else in the Trump family call the Secret Service or FBI?

I didn't think so

[True Dough]

53. It's now becoming routine

to spout the idea that the Trumps need to be saved from themselves because they know not what they do, being new to the political process and all (not to mention morally corrupt and self-serving).

[louis-t]

57. That's Dum Dum's job now.

Looking for people to blame for his family's stupidity.

[mr_lebowski]

59. The unspoken assertion, have no doubt ... why didn't OBAMA'S Secret Service stop it ...

Once again, the Pukes resort to their favorite fallback ... It's teh BLACK'S FAULT!!!

[Yonnie3]

60. Years ago I read something to the effect of "don't just make enemies, choose them wisely"

If I were President, I don't think I would want to malign the Secret Service.

[sofa king]

66. Still waiting for the "stuck elevator" story to come back around.

At the time I pointed out that I thought the Secret Service deliberately stalled the elevator and gave the Trump campaign a stern talking-to about the Russian meetings. Now that they're playing the "blame Obama" card, we can expect the former President to drop that microphone, at his convenience.