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Secret Service: Donald Trump Jr. didn't have agency's protection at time of meeting
Secret Service: Donald Trump Jr. didn't have agency's protection at time of meeting
http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/16/politics/donald-trump-jr-jay-sekulow-secret-service/?iid=ob_lockedrail_topeditorial
Updated 1:39 AM ET, Mon July 17, 2017
Secret Service responds to Sekulow's comments
Story highlights
Trump Jr., a Russian lawyer and top members of Trump's campaign took part in the meeting
The President has maintained having no knowledge of the meeting
Washington (CNN)The Secret Service is pushing back on President Donald Trump's attorney's remarks Sunday that there was nothing questionable going on at a meeting last summer between Trump's eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., a Russian lawyer and top members of Trump's campaign.
"Well, I wonder why the Secret Service, if this was nefarious, why the Secret Service allowed these people in," Jay Sekulow said on ABC's "This Week." "The President had Secret Service protection at that point, and that raised a question with me."
After Sekulow's comments aired, the Secret Service responded that it wouldn't have checked out the participants of the meeting because Trump's eldest son wasn't in their charge.
"Donald Trump Jr. was not a protectee of the USSS in June, 2016," the agency told CNN in a statement. "Thus we would not have screened anyone he was meeting with at that time."..........................
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Secret Service: Donald Trump Jr. didn't have agency's protection at time of meeting (Original Post)
riversedge
Jul 2017
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still_one
(92,204 posts)1. Why would he need it, the KGB was protecting him
Marcuse
(7,487 posts)2. Sekulow may have inadvertently admitted that Trump, Sr. was in the meeting with "these people".
Well, I wonder why the Secret Service, if this was nefarious, why the Secret Service allowed these people in," Jay Sekulow said on ABC's "This Week." "The President had Secret Service protection at that point, and that raised a question with me."
mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)3. That's a reasonable reading of the situation ...
Probably more likely though just further obfuscation, knowing the knuckle-dragging cultists will hear that and ASSUME that if DJT was under USSS protection, then Jr. would've been, too ... even though that wasn't actually said by Suckulow. And Faux won't cover this USSS denial, so ... mission accomplished!