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08-02-2017, 09:02 AM
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Pick and issue, or any subject, and our President can make up a lie !
"President Donald Trump personally "dictated" a misleading statement about his son Donald Trump Jr.'s meeting with a Russian lawyer last year, The Washington Post reported Monday, a move experts say could put the White House at fresh legal risk.
The White House press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, told reporters on Tuesday that "the president weighed in as any father would based on the limited information he had."
But Trump's lawyer, Jay Sekulow, told CNN in the days after the meeting became public that Trump did not play a role in crafting his son's initial statement. The statement, which said Trump Jr. and the Russian lawyer primarily "discussed a program about the adoption of Russian children," did not mention that Trump Jr. had been offered compromising information about Hillary Clinton in exchange for taking the meeting or that the lawyer had been accompanied by the Russian-American lobbyist Rinat Akhmetshin.
While it is not illegal for a president to mislead the public or the press, legal experts say the episode will most likely be of interest to Robert Mueller, the special counsel leading the FBI's investigation into Russia's election interference and whether the Trump campaign has sought to cover up any interactions it had with Russians last year.
"If the reports are accurate, Trump didn't just help write a false statement for his son to release — he also then allowed his personal lawyer to falsely deny that Trump was involved in the drafting of the statement," said David Sklansky, a professor of criminal law at Stanford Law School.
Could Trump be in legal trouble after Donald Jr statement? - Business Insider
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