ABC News Confirms Trump Dictated Son’s False Statement On Russia Meeting
Donald Trump likely in legal jeopardy over Trump Jr’s false statement.
A second major news outlet is reporting the Washington Post bombshell report that Donald Trump personally dictated the false statement his son Donald Jr. released about a meeting with the Russian government.
ABC News is reporting that “Trump personally dictated the first statement his son gave in response to a report from the New York Times earlier this month about the June 2016 meeting at Trump Tower between Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner, and Paul Manafort with a Russian lawyer with the promise of damaging information on Hillary Clinton, two senior level sources confirm to ABC News.”
The Washington Post was first to report the story Monday night that Trump wrote the statement.
Trump’s advisers wanted to release a fulsome and truthful statement on the issue but Trump overruled them.
“The decision was initially made that Donald Trump Jr. was to release a truthful statement that “couldn’t be repudiated” ahead of the release of the New York Times story, according to the Post. But that decision was reversed as the president flew back from the G20 Summit in Germany on July 8,” ABC reports.
Trump Jr., Paul Manafort and Jared Kushner all met with Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya who promised to deliver damaging information about Hillary Clinton as part of the Russian government effort to support Donald Trump’s campaign.
Read the full ABC News story here.
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