Courtesy of The Guardian:WATCH: Trump's full answer on Don, Jr.: "From a practical standpoint, most people would have taken that meeting." http://pic.twitter.com/FHa3q11uya— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) July 13, 2017
Donald Trump has defended his son in public over his meeting with a Russian lawyer last year, telling a press conference in Paris “most people would have taken that meeting” and ignoring questions about whether offers of political assistance from potential agents of foreign governments should be reported to the FBI.
Actually that is NOT true and has not been true for campaigns in the past.
Trump also sort of fogged over the other two people in this meeting, who for the record were his son-in-law/campaign adviser Jared Kushner, and his campaign manager at the time Paul Manafort.
And for both of them this could be a much bigger problem than it might be for Junior.
To be clear what Trump said in this answer is that he finds it perfectly acceptable to allow a foreign agent, from an unfriendly nation, to give you potentially stolen classified information that can be used to harm your opponent's chances of winning the election.
This is a man with literally NO ethics and NO respect for the rule of law.
Nor will he accept that he might have done something wrong or even that the Russia story is legitimate, as he essentially spells out in a recent interview with Reuters:
"The only frustration is that this Russia story is a hoax made up by the Democrats as an excuse for losing an election that they should have won because it’s almost impossible for a Republican to win the Electoral College.”
"There was zero coordination. It’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard. There’s no coordination, this was a hoax, this was made up by the Democrats."
"This is the greatest con job in history, where a party sits down the day after they got their ass kicked, and they say, 'Huh, what’s our excuse?'”
"It just continues and continues, and honestly it’s a disgrace, and it’s very bad for our country. And the Russians must be laughing, because this narrative is so bad for us as a country."
If the Russians are laughing it because their hand picked president is obfuscating just as they expected him to do in response to the findings by American intelligence agencies.
Which of course undermines people's faith in those agencies and allows Russia much more leeway in their next attacks on our democracy.
By the way Trump has also announced that he is "open" to inviting Putin to the White House.
Courtesy of NBC News :
President Donald Trump would invite Russian President Vladimir Putin to the White House "at the right time," according to White House-released excerpts of an off-the-record conversation with reporters aboard Air Force One Wednesday night that was later released.
"I don't think this is the right time," the president said of the hypothetical White House invitation, "but the answer is yes, I would. Look it's very easy for me to say absolutely, I won't. That's the easy thing for me to do, but that's the stupid thing to do. Let's be the smart people not the stupid people."
Yes let's be "the smart people" and invite the guy who just hacked out election to walk right into the White House.
Hell why not?
After all it's not like his spies have no already been there.
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