UPDATED - Trump: I did not know about Trump Tower meeting

[DonViejo]

Source: The Hill

BY ALICIA COHN - 08/25/18 08:39 AM EDT

President Trump on Saturday maintained he “did NOT know about” the 2016 Trump Tower meeting between his campaign officials and a Kremlin-connected lawyer.

Trump has long denied knowing about the meeting during his campaign, but his tweet followed a month of controversy over allegations that his former attorney, Michael Cohen, was claiming Trump had prior knowledge of the meeting.

Link to tweet

CNN reported last month that Trump's longtime "fixer" was claiming that the president knew the meeting was taking place during his campaign. The meeting, which took place in June 2016 at Trump Tower, is reportedly a focal point of Robert Mueller's investigation into whether Trump officials colluded with Russians to influence the 2016 election for Trump.

Sources told CNN that Cohen said he was present during a meeting between Trump and his son, Donald Trump, Jr., when they discussed the offer from Russians of dirt on Trump's Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton. Trump then allegedly approved Trump, Jr., and his son-in-law Jared Kushner's decision to meet with the Russian lawyer.

Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/403574-trump-i-did-not-know-about-trump-tower-meeting

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UPDATE:

Trump Cites Lanny Davis, Reasserts He ‘Did NOT Know’ About Trump Tower Meeting

by Colby Hall | Aug 25th, 2018, 8:27 am

President Donald Trump’s cited Lanny Davis’s record correction this morning and restated he did NOT know about the infamous Trump Tower meeting that occurred months before the 2016 General Election. The meeting is at the center of the investigation into whether or not the Trump campaign worked with Russian efforts to interfere in the U.S. election as top Trump campaign officials Donald Trump, Jr., Paul Manafort and Jared Kushner all attended a meeting with Russian agents.

Lanny Davis, who has been representing former Trump Organization lawyer Michael Cohen, had previously claimed that his client knew that Trump as aware of the meeting, but has since clarified that Cohen is unaware of Trump’s foreknowledge of the meeting. This was the essence of Trump’s Saturday morning tweet:

Link to tweet

By any objective measure, last week was a disastrous news week for President Trump as his former campaign manager Manafort was found guilty of eight counts of bank and tax fraud, and his former attorney Cohen pled guilty to campaign finance crimes and directly implicated Trump as a co-conspirator. But neither of these items have come from the investigation led by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, who is specifically looking into alleged Russian collusion, an allegation that Trump and his allies have virulently rejected.

If Trump, in fact, knew that his top campaign officials were meeting with Russian agents who had promised dirt on Trump’s political foe, Hillary Clinton, that would be a difficult thing for Trump to explain, particularly after denying it for so long. The fact that Trump cited his legal and political foe Mr. Davis suggests Trump is perhaps grasping at any exculpatory straws.

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[brucefan]

1. The Target

is getting itchy

[Botany]

2. So he did not know about a meeting in a building that has his name on it, while he was in ...

... that building, and that meeting he had his son, son in law, and campaign chairman
attending? And with in a few hours of the end of that meeting he was tweeting and
speaking out about what was discussed during that meeting too.

[2naSalit]

9. +1

[Botany]

14. And don't forget that the FBI told Trump in the winter of 2016 to expect the Russians to reach ....

... out to his campaign and when they do contact the FBI ASAP. They did and Trump didn't do what the FBI
told him to do .... end of story.

[trusty elf]

3. "I just wanted to clarify that I meant that I didn't not know about the meeting,

sort of a double negative."

[Ligyron]

8. I'm stealing those images.

Imma post 'em online to see if any of my RW acquaintances discern the bone spur images.

I'm guessing they won't.

[2naSalit]

10. I didn't know until I saw our post! ...nt

[bitterross]

19. I think you got it.

Yep. That's what it was. Bad grammar.

[tanyev]

4. "It was purely by accident that I pushed a button on my phone that allowed me to listen in."

*Not intended to be an actual quote

[Sancho]

5. tRump did not know about the meeting until he knew about the meeting...

...and when he was told about the meeting, approved the meeting, and was on the speaker phone during the meeting...then he forgot that he knew about the meeting!

After all, it was an unimportant meeting about adoption, but ANYONE would have taken a meeting about adoption in order to get dirt on an opponent from the Russians to cheat on the election, but it was NOT a meeting about collusion...because tRump didn't know what he knew.

It was such an UNIMPORTANT meeting that tRump took an hour on Air Force One to dictate a memo about the meeting that he didn't know about and that Hope Hicks said the emails would never see the light of day.

[Botany]

13. Besides NOTHING HAPPENED @ the meeting HE DID NOT KNOW ABOUT

"It was such an UNIMPORTANT meeting that tRump took an hour on Air Force One to dictate
a memo about the meeting that he didn't know about and that Hope Hicks said the emails
would never see the light of day."

[forgotmylogin]

17. "and anyway COLLUSION IS NOT ILLEGAL WHEN THE PRESIDENT DOES IT"

"so says FOX NEWS and very intelligent person Rudy Ghoulani, who forgot that 911 happened during his mayorship."

[PatSeg]

6. Once again,

he has to throw in that nothing came out of the meeting, as if that matters. Actually, it sounds more like an admission of guilt. Keep digging Donald.

[Liberalagogo]

7. Translation:

I did know about Trump Tower meeting.

[NRaleighLiberal]

11. he is flapping in the hurricane force wind of Mueller!

[SayItLoud]

12. Three words

Rhona Graff knows

[Bayard]

15. Lordy, I hope there are recordings!

[Major Nikon]

16. So we are now supposed to believe a man who has lied numerous times about the meeting

A meeting that was evidently important enough for his son, his son-in-law, and his campaign manager to attend, and none of them said one word to him about it despite Trump's presence in the same building at the same time. Keep in mind this is the same guy who keeps repeating "no collusion" after those same people were cold hard busted colluding with Russians.

[Snellius]

18. Trouble with being a serial liar: No one believes you. Even when telling the truth.

He's repeated this about 100 times now.

[bitterross]

20. There is an inverse correlation between his tweets and truth.

The more he tweets he didn't know/didn't do something, the more it turns out to be the opposite is true. At least, so far that is how it has worked out.

And, by the way, there is only one truth.

[B Stieg]

21. The meeting was just a coffee boy for the The President*

"And for a "very short period of time," just like Papadopoulos.

REGISTER and VOTE!

[SergeStorms]

22. Is there a single reason to believe you, Little Donnie?

You lie to the people of this country around 8 times per day. Considering your only interaction with the people is via twitter, and you average about 12 tweets per day, 2/3 of your tweets will contain lies. That's not a very good record, Little Donnie. So take your lying tweet and shove it up your grotesquely bulbous ass.

[Snellius]

23. So whose restricted number did Junior make the phone call to? Before and after.

Curious minds need to know.