The 5 key questions on Trump's role in his son's statement on the Russia meeting
Here's the one that really piques my interest -
3. How did Trump construct such a carefully-worded statement?
Here's the full statement Don Jr. put out in response to the New York Times' initial reporting about the June 2016 meeting:
"It was a short introductory meeting. I asked Jared and Paul to stop by. We primarily discussed a program about the adoption of Russian children that was active and popular with American families years ago and was since ended by the Russian government, but it was not a campaign issue at the time and there was no follow up. I was asked to attend the meeting by an acquaintance, but was not told the name of the person I would be meeting with beforehand."
There's a whole lot of misleading done in that statement. But, no actual lying. The use of the word "primarily" to describe the main focal point of the meeting doesn't preclude the fact that other things came up. And, it's true that Russian adoption policy was "not a campaign issue at the time" -- nor did it become one. What the statement conveniently leaves out is that the reason for the meeting was a promise via Goldstone of Russian-supplied negative information about Clinton. Which is a big thing to leave out.
That Trump a) did dictate the statement and b) was totally clueless about the nature of the June meeting simply doesn't wash. No one with such limited knowledge of what actually happened in the meeting could come up with a statement so nuanced and careful.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2017/08/01/politics/donald-trump-emails/index.html
"No one with such limited knowledge of what actually happened in the meeting could come up with a statement so nuanced and careful.-"
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How did we end up like this?? Remember when President Obama wore a tan suit - Oh! And chewed gum?? 
