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underpants

(183,007 posts)
Tue Aug 1, 2017, 03:10 PM Aug 2017

Donnie Jr. is just a gift that keeps on giving, isn't he?



The strategy, the advisers agreed, should be for Donald Trump Jr. to release a statement to get ahead of the story. They wanted to be truthful, so their account couldn’t be repudiated later if the full details emerged.

But within hours, at the president’s direction, the plan changed.

Flying home from Germany on July 8 aboard Air Force One, Trump personally dictated a statement in which Trump Jr. said that he and the Russian lawyer had “primarily discussed a program about the adoption of Russian children” when they met in June 2016, according to multiple people with knowledge of the deliberations. The statement, issued to the New York Times as it prepared an article, emphasized that the subject of the meeting was “not a campaign issue at the time.”

The extent of the president’s personal intervention in his son’s response, the details of which have not previously been reported, adds to a series of actions that Trump has taken that some advisers fear could place him and some members of his inner circle in legal jeopardy.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-dictated-sons-misleading-statement-on-meeting-with-russian-lawyer/2017/07/31/04c94f96-73ae-11e7-8f39-eeb7d3a2d304_story.html?utm_term=.0b7db71af7d7
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Donnie Jr. is just a gift that keeps on giving, isn't he? (Original Post) underpants Aug 2017 OP
Adoption is code for Russian sanctions - William Browder Brother Buzz Aug 2017 #1
Thanks I've been meaning to read that. underpants Aug 2017 #3
This whole Russia/Trump thing is a jigsaw puzzle Brother Buzz Aug 2017 #4
Sweet! rock Aug 2017 #2
Too many Fredos... not enough Michaels SaintLouisBlues Aug 2017 #5
Donnie Jr is just as stupid as his father Gothmog Aug 2017 #6

Brother Buzz

(36,498 posts)
1. Adoption is code for Russian sanctions - William Browder
Tue Aug 1, 2017, 03:25 PM
Aug 2017

Many won't invest the time to read or view Browder's testimony, so here's a short succinct "Readers Digest' version

Brother Buzz

(36,498 posts)
4. This whole Russia/Trump thing is a jigsaw puzzle
Tue Aug 1, 2017, 04:26 PM
Aug 2017

Bill Browder, bless his heart, completed the border and sorted all the remaining pieces by color so even Joe Six-Pack can finish the puzzle.

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