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Girard442

(6,081 posts)
Tue Aug 1, 2017, 11:03 PM Aug 2017

Did Trump dictate false meeting statement? Or Putin?

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/did-president-trump-dictate-the-false-statement-or-was-it-president-putin

...But piecing together this timeline and based on President Trump’s own account, we can say that he knew his advisers were discussing how to respond to a press story about the June 2016 meeting. He had a secret conversation with President Putin at which they discussed the issue of Russian adoptions. Then hours later he dictated a false statement to be released in the name of his son in which he claimed that Russian adoptions were the topic of the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting. That is a highly troubling chain of events to put it mildly.


For a long time I've been a big fan of Josh Marshall over at Talking Points Memo. I'm in awe of the journalism done by him and his staffers. It's not his fault he's started to sound like Alex Jones: it's the FUBAR world we've woken up in.

Apologies if this was posted before and I missed it.
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Did Trump dictate false meeting statement? Or Putin? (Original Post) Girard442 Aug 2017 OP
Putin dictated it to the Republican draft dodger in chief Achilleaze Aug 2017 #1
Adoptions? Putin wouldn't suggest something so lame. oasis Aug 2017 #2
Putin understands the English language better than Dim Leader. Sneederbunk Aug 2017 #3
Putin Gothmog Aug 2017 #4

Achilleaze

(15,543 posts)
1. Putin dictated it to the Republican draft dodger in chief
Tue Aug 1, 2017, 11:06 PM
Aug 2017

Could very likely be true, it wouldn't surprise anyone

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