FOX: note a crime to put out a misleading statement - but advisers "worried"

[factfinder_77]

[FSogol]

1. LoL, abuse of power or obstruction of justice?

You make the call!

[Towlie]

2. That's like saying it's not a crime to have a bloody knife.

[uponit7771]

8. +1

[hedda_foil]

3. Hello...that's the same thing i heard on Rachel's show with Joy Reed just now.

Has the worm begun to turn or was the statement made by one of the Fox tame liberals?

[TomSlick]

4. They should be worried.

It is not a crime to lie to the media or the public. However, the false press release does demonstrate a consciousness of guilt. The only plausible explanation is that Trump KNEW what the meeting with the Russians was about and KNEW there were at least potentially impeachable (if not criminal) offenses. If Trump knew the purpose of the meeting at the time of the false press release, it is at least possible he knew about the meeting, and its purpose, at the time of the meeting.

What did the President know and when did he know it?

[creeksneakers2]

5. If Trump knew the Russians were backing him

and he almost certainly found out about the E-mail saying that, Trump was colluding when he spread doubt about the Russians being the hackers.

[TomSlick]

6. Exactly

Yet more consciousness of guilt.

[unblock]

7. In fairness, they were equally forgiving when bill Clinton said he didn't have sexual relations

with "that woman".

Oh wait, no, I think I might be misremembering things a little. Covfefe might have been a tad different in that case, what was it, hmmmm....