President 'applauds' Trump Jr for releasing emails: 'My son is a high-quality person'
Source: RawStory
BRAD REED
11 JUL 2017 AT 14:36 ET
President Donald Trump on Tuesday defended his eldest son and said he was proud of him for releasing emails that showed he knew the Russian government was trying to feed him damaging information about Hillary Clinton.
My son is a high-quality person, and I applaud his transparency, Trump said, in a statement read aloud by White House Deputy Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders.
Trump Jr. on Tuesday morning released email correspondence that he had with music publicist Rob Goldstone, who offered to set up a meeting between the eldest Trump son and Russian attorney Natalia Veselnitskaya to discuss potentially damaging information about Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.
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Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2017/07/11/donald-trump-jr-emails-russia-meeting-240408
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Trump Backs Donald Jr. Amid Scandal: My Son Is A High-Quality Person
By MATT SHUHAM Published JULY 11, 2017 2:46 PM
President Donald Trump defended his son on Tuesday amid dramatic revelations that Donald Trump Jr. met in 2016 with a Kremlin-connected lawyer who promised dirt on Hillary Clinton as part of a Russian government effort to aide Trumps candidacy.
My son is a high-quality person and I applaud his transparency, Trump said in a statement that was read by White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders during an off-camera press briefing, Link to tweet
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The White House did not immediately respond to TPMs request for comment.
On Tuesday, just as the New York Times was publishing its own version of the story, Donald Trump Jr. published emails showing that he accepted a meeting in June 2016 with an then-unnamed Russian lawyer and he brought Jared Kushner and Paul Manafort along after a family acquaintance promised that the lawyer would share damaging information about Hillary Clinton that was part of a Russian government effort to aide Donald Trumps campaign.
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rzemanfl
(29,565 posts)When can we break out the pitchforks and torches?
Pacifist Patriot
(24,653 posts)rzemanfl
(29,565 posts)Pacifist Patriot
(24,653 posts)ashling
(25,771 posts)now not so much
Aviation Pro
(12,169 posts)...is going to the crowbar motel, père, where he may learn some manners. Now go finish up your date with your kitten paw, fuckhead.
dalton99a
(81,513 posts)LudwigPastorius
(9,150 posts)He only made a couple of million off his treason.
Robert Hanssen? ...a low energy traitor. He only outed about 50 or 60 Soviets who were spying for the U.S., he didn't sell out the whole country, like Junior.
Sad.
FM123
(10,053 posts)milestogo
(16,829 posts)ResistantAmerican17
(3,809 posts)class acts. All of them.
PatSeg
(47,482 posts)That's what he said about his wife too. Who calls people, especially relatives "high quality"? His use of the English language is so strange.
maxsolomon
(33,345 posts)nothing exists independently.
PatSeg
(47,482 posts)Its like he's talking about a car or a camera.
spiderpig
(10,419 posts)which we knew translated as "very cheesy".
PatSeg
(47,482 posts)healthcare "beautiful". He even called the dead babies in Syria "beautiful". He talks like an alien from outer space trying to behave like a human.
Judi Lynn
(160,542 posts)PatSeg
(47,482 posts)I'd never heard that.
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,182 posts)Tanuki
(14,918 posts)then changing the story day after day until finally publishing the e-mails right before the NYT was about to do so anyway.
babylonsister
(171,066 posts)indicates just the opposite to me.
C_U_L8R
(45,002 posts)Junior's been sitting on this info for almost a year
despite all the hullabaloo and it wasn't until
he found out that the NYTimes was going
to publish the emails that he released them.
That's no transparent... that's chickenshit.
That's complicit. Treason and perjury
are exactly the words to use.
beastie boy
(9,363 posts)his son implicating himself, Manafort and Kushner in treason.
vkkv
(3,384 posts)Leghorn21
(13,524 posts)"The president was aggravated by the news of the meeting, according to one person close to him less over the fact that it had happened, and more because it was yet another story about Russia that had swamped the media cycle."
Chemisse
(30,813 posts)Sociopaths do not have deep feelings, not even for their own children.
Kaleva
(36,307 posts)Supposedly high quality but in reality a cheaply made knock off.
trueblue2007
(17,223 posts)lock them all up.
French Revolution punishment ..... they used the Guillotine.
Yonnie3
(17,442 posts)Hieronymus
(6,039 posts)randr
(12,412 posts)The lsos will wail like a baby that he was fooled by all the rules and never understood how Governin worked.
lib-ruhl
(127 posts)SHS to lie...deflect and place blame on someone else.
procon
(15,805 posts)Trump speaks like he's referring to an object, "My Son Is A High-Quality Person."
My Steaks Are High-Quality Beef.
My Hotels Have High-Quality Rooms.
My Golf Courses Are High-Quality Venues.
Doitnow
(1,103 posts)only knows swamp types.
Blue Idaho
(5,049 posts)For a kid who's just a chip off the old scumbag.
Virtual Burlesque
(132 posts)Provided we are comparing sleazy, semi-competent, detestable traitors.
Amongst that group of personages, Junior rates bigly, even bigly bigly.