Trump just made 2 problematic admissions about the Trump Tower meeting by Aaron Blake
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President Trump has yet again tweeted about his personal legal issues in a way he perhaps shouldn't have.
The Washington Post reported Saturday that Trump had expressed concerns in the past week about his son Donald Trump Jr.'s legal exposure from the 2016 Trump Tower meeting. In a tweet about that report on Sunday, Trump said, “This was a meeting to get information on an opponent, totally legal and done all the time in politics - and it went nowhere. I did not know about it!”
Two issues.
The first is that Trump appears to have broken some new ground here when it comes to admitting the true purpose of the Trump Tower meeting with a Kremlin-aligned lawyer — and even further contradicted the initial statement he helped draft about it. At the time, Donald Trump Jr. issued a statement explaining that he and the lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya, had “ primarily discussed a program about the adoption of Russian children .” We have since discovered that the elder Trump actually dictated that statement .
The first is that Trump appears to have broken some new ground here when it comes to admitting the true purpose of the Trump Tower meeting with a Kremlin-aligned lawyer — and even further contradicted the initial statement he helped draft about it. At the time, Donald Trump Jr. issued a statement explaining that he and the lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya, had “ primarily discussed a program about the adoption of Russian children .” We have since discovered that the elder Trump actually dictated that statement .
Quickly, though, that explanation fell apart , and we learned that Trump Jr. had actually been promised harmful information about Democrats, including Hillary Clinton. The president himself seemed to shrug it off, saying in July 2017 that, “ from a practical standpoint, most people would have taken that meeting .” He added: “It’s called opposition research or even research into your opponent.” (Trump also tweeted along these lines .) But at the same time, he still suggested that the meeting was, in large part, about adoption.
Sunday's tweet appears to acknowledge more explicitly than before that the meeting was indeed predicated on opposition research: “This was a meeting to get information on an opponent.” The initial denial — which, again, Trump himself dictated — is pretty irreconcilable with that. (You could perhaps argue that adoption was mostly discussed, even if the meeting was set up to discuss oppo research, but that's a stretch.)
If you're Robert Mueller and you're looking at whether Trump obstructed justice, you've now got even more evidence of a clear attempt to mislead the public and obscure the truth. Trump's July 2017 comments came before we knew he was involved in drafting that initial misleading response, and they don't so precisely say the meeting was intended to get oppo; now there is really no disputing that point if you're Trump's lawyer. (It's a little like Trump's Lester Holt interview, in which he said Russia was on his mind when he fired James Comey. That may not be the same, legally speaking, as him saying he fired Comey because of the Russia investigation.)
The second issue here are the final words of the tweet. “I did not know about it!” This is something Trump has said regularly about the Trump Tower meeting and something he has re-upped now that Michael Cohen is reportedly telling people that Trump did know about it .
But here's the thing: This is a tweet about how the Trump Tower meeting was totally fine — nothing illegal to see here. If you've got no real concern about legal exposure from the meeting, why distance yourself from it? Trump seems to be arguing against his own point by assuring us that he had nothing to do with this meeting, which — oh, by the way — was totally on the up-and-up. Trump might as well have just confirmed The Post's report that he is worried about what the meeting portends for his son.
Is this tweet, in and of itself, damning? Probably not. But obstruction-of-justice cases are about proving that someone had “ corrupt intent ” when they took the actions they did. And for the second time in less than a week , Trump tweeted something that suggested his intent wasn't terribly wholesome. He also suggested that he isn't as convinced as he'd like us to believe that there's nothing to see here.
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Ok, so, this is were I have been telling folks on here that Trump and his campaign have broken the law and, here is the law that was broken.
and, this story says that Donald J. Trump Sr. just admitted it on Twitter.
Trump is a foreign national?
Wrong statute there.
Nope, it's the right statute, just the wrong section, it goes on to say that ACCEPTING that help is a violation, also, the FBI required Trumps campaign to report any contact with a foreign national who wanted to get involved in their campaign and, they didn't, in fact, they lied about having met with any Russians about the campaign or, during the campaign even though their were pictures and, video of members of the campaign not only talking to Russians but, having Dinner with them and, inviting them to the RNC convention.
Lock them UP!, Lock them UP!
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Read the Emails on Donald Trump Jr.’s Russia Meeting
JULY 11, 2017
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“This was a meeting to get information on an opponent”: Trump changes his story on Russia meeting
In denying reports he’s worried about legal scrutiny of Donald Trump Jr., Trump made a big shift in how he talks about the Trump Tower meeting.
By Emily Stewart Aug 5, 2018,
It is not legal to accept information from a foreign power or, foreign national on an opponent, check the law out and, saying that "nothing came of it" or, "We didn't know it was illegal" is no excuse.
Any law that prohibits getting political information from anyone other than a nation we are at war with is clearly an unconstitutional limit on freedom. It has never been tested in the courts but should be so it can be struck down
statist governments always try and suppress liberties
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Oh they knew what they did was illegal.
Why else would Pres. Trump personally come up with that, " The meeting was about the children , (adoption)", lie and all the other "Sidestep" dancing they've been doing since the meeting became public knowledge.
Russia, as the Soviet Union, declared war on us in the late 1940's and, hasn't stopped that war since then, yes, it has softened for a time but, it is still going on, they meddled in our elections in 2016 and, offered a political opponent "dirt" on another political opponent and, Putin even admitted that he ordered his intellence services to "help Trump win the election", that is a covert attempt to over throw our democracy, in other words an act of war.
So you feel burglary is okay, as long as it is committed for political purposes?
Kidnapping and torture for political purposes?
Bugging a phone?
Blackmail?
All okay as long as you get political information?
"I did not have collusion with that hostile foreign power. And if I did it was consensual anyway."
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The really funny part is that Trump can't seem to decide which crime he wants to publicly admit to - obstruction of justice in several different cases, conspiracy to defraud the US, or conspiracy after the fact. So far he's admitted to all of them.
Really? Can you show us that declaration of war?
I said none of those things
Really??? I even included your quote..
See?
So yes you did.
We are not at war with Russia
They're at war with us though, but our President is a Russian agent so we aren't going to fight back.
What the fuck has that got to do with what we were talking about?????
Galen said Russia declared war on us in 1940
Again.....
What the fuck has that got to do with what we were talking about?????
Ask him
What would you call it when a country try's to subvert your government through your elections? I would call that an act of war.
Act of war,
and, now we have this,
So tell me LFD what rock were you hiding under when all this was going on?
And not one declaration of war
HELLO, It's called a cold war for a reason. You can play dumb and, stupid all you want LFD but, we know that you are itching for a fight with someone so, why don't you take your ( Deleted ) and, find someone else to pester.
It’s time we use whatever means necessary to tear down the fascism both parties have pushed on us over the past 85 years
even the so called federal election commission is run by the two corrupt parties
Agreed! Let's start by putting treasonous and corrupt fascists like Trump, Junior and Jared in prison.
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Amazing that anyone can still deny any wrongdoing by Trump. Anyone who still denies that now, will always deny it, no matter how damning the evidence against Trump turns out to be. There is literally nothing Trump could do that would turn his cult against him, nothing. I thought Trump's '5th Avenue' comment was just more of Trump's bluster and hubris when he said it, now it looks like the truest words Trump has ever spoken.
He's so dumb it takes him an hour and a half to watch Sixty Minutes!
His twin brother, from another mother,