https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/donald-tr ... -1.4764004
Trump tweet wrote:.....I did NOT know of the meeting with my son, Don jr. Sounds to me like someone is trying to make up stories in order to get himself out of an unrelated jam (Taxi cabs maybe?). He even retained Bill and Crooked Hillary’s lawyer. Gee, I wonder if they helped him make the choice!
That is in response to Michael Cohen saying Trump Senior knew about the meeting before it happened.
CNN reported Thursday Trump's former lawyer, Michael Cohen, claims Trump knew in advance about the meeting. CNN cited unidentified sources saying Cohen was willing to share that information with special counsel Robert Mueller, who is investigating possible collusion between Trump's campaign and Russia.
A person familiar with the meeting confirmed the CNN report to The Associated Press, speaking on condition of anonymity because the person wasn't authorized to speak publicly.
I checked Trump's twitter... here are the two preceding tweets:
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1022805381440069632 wrote:Arrived back in Washington last night from a very emotional reopening of a major U.S. Steel plant in Granite City, Illinois, only to be greeted with the ridiculous news that the highly conflicted Robert Mueller and his gang of 13 Angry Democrats obviously cannot find Collusion...
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1022808452677160960 wrote:....,the only Collusion with Russia was with the Democrats, so now they are looking at my Tweets (along with 53 million other people) - the rigged Witch Hunt continues! How stupid and unfair to our Country....And so the Fake News doesn’t waste my time with dumb questions, NO,....
I am guessing the "Fake News doesn't waste my time with dumb questions" is about the administration not allowing a CNN reporter to attend an event because she asked questions.
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/ ... an-collins
A CNN reporter has been excluded by the White House from a press event after asking Donald Trump about Vladimir Putin’s postponed visit and the Michael Cohen tapes.
The ban on White House reporter Kaitlan Collins sparked outcry from traditional rival Fox News and the White House Correspondents Association, which called the decision “wrong-headed, and weak”.
*record scratch*
Yup - that's right; Fox News. Perhaps, maybe, kinda, outside of their prime-time entertainment hosts, there are actual reporters who understand that where CNN access goes, so does Fox (reporters - the ones who aren't always ready and willing to 'entertain' Trump - yeah, that's you, Tucker and Sean).
CNN said in a statement that Collins was told by White House communications director Bill Shine and press secretary Sarah Sanders that her questions had been “inappropriate” and that she could not attend an event during which Trump and Juncker announced a joint working dialogue on trade.
Bill Shine, you say, formerly of Fox News, who was ousted for his efforts to help cover-up rampant sexual harassment by entertainers like Bill O'Rielly and executives like Roger Ailes? That Shine? He used the word "inappropriate"? Maybe he has some sort of deeply intellectual take on what that word means, because he seems to have struggled, for quite some time, with the definition common-folk use.
http://thehill.com/homenews/administrat ... bill-shine
Larry Klayman, a vocal supporter of President Trump who founded the conservative activist group Judicial Watch, is urging the Department of Justice (DOJ) to investigate former Fox News president and current White House communications official Bill Shine.
Klayman, who also founded the organization Freedom Watch, wrote in a letter Thursday that Shine, who joined the White House last month as deputy chief of staff for communications, should be investigated for his reported role in covering up allegations of sexual misconduct at Fox News.
Yeah, that Shine. It's almost as though there are people at Fox News who don't like Shine, or something... allegedly.
Getting back to the liar-on-liar verbal violence, if Trump Senior did, indeed, know about Trump Junior's meeting with zee Russians beforehand, that's kind-of starting to sound like collusion. Perhaps failed collusion, as was discussed back when the news about the meeting first broke, and then broke again, and again, as Trump Senior attempted to control the message and the New York Times reported differently, about a meeting he totally didn't know about, in is building, with his son, and his campaign manager, and son in-law, with a heavily connected Russian lawyer who promised dirt on Lock-her-up Clinton... wait, this is starting to sound like it could be bad...
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/201 ... agram.html
Natalia V. Veselnitskaya, a Russian lawyer who met with Trump campaign officials in June 2016 on the premise that she had damaging information on Hillary Clinton, admitted to acting as an informant for a top Kremlin official. She had long insisted she is a private attorney, not a Russian operative trying to meddle in the presidential election.
Whoops, that article is from late April, 2018.
https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2018 ... cials.html
The Moscow lawyer said to have promised Donald Trump’s presidential campaign dirt on his Democratic opponent worked more closely with senior Russian government officials than she previously let on, according to documents reviewed by The Associated Press.
Scores of emails, transcripts and legal documents paint a portrait of Natalia Veselnitskaya as a well-connected attorney who served as a ghostwriter for top Russian government lawyers and received assistance from senior Interior Ministry personnel in a case involving a key client.
Well, technically, she is a private attorney, and she wasn't trying to meddle in in the presidential election, because she was merely representing the interests of those who were meddling in the presidential election.
In any case, this could be bad. It would seem as though it's a liar-on-liar pile-up, except for that one tidbit:
"A person familiar with the meeting confirmed the CNN report to The Associated Press, speaking on condition of anonymity because the person wasn't authorized to speak publicly."
There are people who know what went-down, not just Michael Cohen.
On the other hand, every time I figure Trump is really deep in the shit, he squirms out. I am, however, starting to feel as though that squirming is getting a lot greasier. If politicians can be best judged by their willingness to be greased, and greasily squirm out of ownership of a sinking ship, this is interesting:
https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/26/politics ... index.html
House Speaker Paul Ryan said Thursday he does not support House conservatives' efforts to impeach Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein as the House Freedom Caucus leaders backed down -- for now.
Ryan's comments opposing the impeachment of Rosenstein, who supervises special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation, came as Freedom Caucus leader Mark Meadows, a North Carolina Republican, said an agreement was reached to give the Justice Department and the FBI "one more chance" to turn over documents to Congress, but has not specified what materials have been improperly withheld.
Ryan made clear at his weekly news conference that he thought impeachment was a step too far.
Uh-huh, impeach Rod Rosenstein, because he is making the unprecedented move of not providing documents of the sort which have very rarely, if ever, been demanded of the DoJ in the past; those being documents about an ongoing investigation.
I smell a grease fire....