People are freaking out over a key detail being changed by Trump lawyers in a letter to Mueller – this seems like the letter Trump was talking about yesterday.
From the New York Times:
The lawyers acknowledged that Mr. Trump dictated a statement to The Times about the 2016 Trump Tower meeting between some of his top advisers and Russians who were said to have damaging information about Hillary Clinton. Though the statement is misleading — in it, the president’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., said he met with Russians “primarily” to discuss adoption issues — the lawyers call it “short but accurate.”
So he lied to the American people when he said he had nothing to do with it. But unless they can find something illegal with this, it doesn’t matter. People just don’t care that Trump lies constantly.
Here’s Giulani downplaying what happened:
Asked about shifting explanations for statement on Trump Tower meeting, Rudy Giuliani tells @GStephanopoulos:
— This Week (@ThisWeekABC) June 3, 2018
"This is the reason you don't let the president testify. Our recollection keeps changing, or we're not even asked a question and somebody makes an assumption." pic.twitter.com/DLQsGbfGhA
While Preet Bharara is ready to impeach:
Bharara says “there’s a lot of problems with the legal argument” in letter from Trump’s lawyers: It “spends a long time talking about a particular ... obstruction statute,” but they don’t discuss “the more relevant and more recent statute” #CNNSOTU https://t.co/z5CasAOgVm
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) June 3, 2018
We have to admit, it looks bad when they have to change their story so drastically. But I don’t care because #MAGA!!