WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Secret Service on Sunday denied a suggestion from President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer that it had vetted a meeting between the president’s son and Russian nationals during the 2016 campaign.
Donald Trump Jr. has acknowledged that he met in New York with Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya after he was told she might have damaging information about his father’s rival, Democrat Hillary Clinton.
“Well, I wonder why the Secret Service, if this was nefarious, why the Secret Service allowed these people in. The president had Secret Service protection at that point, and that raised a question with me,” Jay Sekulow, a member of the president’s legal team, said on Sunday on the ABC news program “This Week.”
Trump legal team member Jay Sekulow on Russia meeting: “If this was nefarious, why’d the Secret Service allow these people in?” #ThisWeek pic.twitter.com/8O2N312XQc
— ABC News (@ABC) July 16, 2017
In an emailed response to questions about Sekulow’s comments, Secret Service spokesman Mason Brayman said the younger Trump was not under Secret Service protection at the time of the meeting, which included Trump’s son and two senior campaign officials.
“Donald Trump, Jr. was not a protectee of the USSS in June, 2016. Thus we would not have screened anyone he was meeting with at that time,” the statement said.
According to emails released by Trump Jr. last week, he eagerly agreed to meet Veselnitskaya, who he was told was a Russian government lawyer. Veselnitskaya has said she is a private lawyer and denies having Kremlin ties.
He’s such a scheming devil….
https://twitter.com/Zac_Petkanas/status/887423320345497600
https://twitter.com/thehill/status/887420733906989056
But as with all pea-brained schemers, the joke will be on him in the end…
It’s only a matter of time..
All will come to light, sooner or later…
All will be told in the end…there are no secrets in this god-forsaken world…no permanent loyalties either…
Sooner or later, everyone squeals…
Money laundering, y’all
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/887426572126482432
https://twitter.com/grantstern/status/887406367547510790
Former Obama Official Interviewed By Senate Intelligence Amid Russian Probe
http://tiny.cc/kc3imy
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama’s chief of staff has been interviewed by the Senate intelligence committee amid its investigation into Russian meddling in the U.S. election.
Denis McDonough declined to discuss the meeting as he left an interview with committee staffers Tuesday, but said he was “happy to come up.”
The panel is interviewing several former Obama administration officials this week. Panel staff met with former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper on Monday and will also interview former National Security Adviser Susan Rice.
https://twitter.com/MSNBC/status/887409854134071296
https://twitter.com/3ChicsPolitico/status/887412652628209668
These tools are just throwing excuses against the wall and hoping they stick. I’ve lost the accurate count, but I’m thinking this is probably the fifth or sixth excuse Trump & Co. has peddled. Trump Jr. is no kid, and neither is Kushner and Manafort, so Sekulow’s latest excuse makes no sense. I guess their next excuse will involve portraying Trump Jr. as a little kid who needs someone else to protect himself from his own flawed decisions.
This is clown school!
https://twitter.com/RVAwonk/status/886639881094561792
https://twitter.com/JuddLegum/status/886631577098256384
https://twitter.com/RWPUSA/status/886674744254312448
https://twitter.com/4everNeverTrump/status/886581788126060544
https://twitter.com/ThisWeekABC/status/886572631943553024
https://twitter.com/girlsreallyrule/status/886664129074700288
https://twitter.com/girlsreallyrule/status/886665104074211328
https://twitter.com/girlsreallyrule/status/886665924186562561
https://twitter.com/BeSeriousUSA/status/886642559153352704
https://twitter.com/thehill/status/886589516496195584
https://twitter.com/RVAwonk/status/886699928818515968
https://twitter.com/thehill/status/886691284198588416
https://twitter.com/MalcolmNance/status/886671428086628356
https://twitter.com/DandelionDollar/status/886670227391430656
https://twitter.com/tedlieu/status/886619014444621824
https://twitter.com/ThisWeekABC/status/886572631943553024
https://twitter.com/PalmerReport/status/886698056372150274