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As mentioned when the news of the report being submitted broke, I have maintained the possibility of Trump not being in any significant legal jeopardy from the underlying conduct of the Russia investigation but still being the kind of guy dumb enough to incriminate himself and try to obstruct that investigation regardless.
I also said that if anything, that still makes his behavior and actions deeply disturbing. In that case, Trump would have put himself in a compromising position for...what?
Let alone the mess his associates got themselves into. They lied to the FBI about contacts with Russia, lied to Congress about contacts with Russia, obstructed a congressional investigation into those Russian contacts, ...
Not once did any of these people come clean and just admit that there was a meeting, or admit right away what the purpose of that meeting was.
When news of the Trump Tower meeting broke, Trump dictated a deeply misleading statement aboard Air-Force 1 that claimed the meeting was just about "adoptions."
Trump later said in a NYT interview that he discussed "adoptions" (Magnitsky sanctions) with Putin the day before the NYT report broke.
Of course Trump's dictated statement turned out to be at best deeply misleading. They later went on to admit that the meeting was advertised to Trump Jr as an offer of dirt on Hillary by the "Crown prosecutor of Russia" and "as part of Russia and its government's support for Mr. Trump."
That's just one example of Trump & co immediately coming up with a false cover story rather than even considering not lying.
Even long before he even became a subject in the Russia investigation (not long after Comey firing), Trump had already spent months repeatedly lying about the contacts and business dealings between him and his associates and Russia.
Everyone else went along, time and again. From no contacts with Russia by anyone, all the way to at least 100 contacts with 16 Trump associates including Trump himself.
In most of these instances of lying, whether to the public or to the FBI and Congress, the Russians would have been well aware of those lies.
I also said that if anything, that still makes his behavior and actions deeply disturbing. In that case, Trump would have put himself in a compromising position for...what?
Let alone the mess his associates got themselves into. They lied to the FBI about contacts with Russia, lied to Congress about contacts with Russia, obstructed a congressional investigation into those Russian contacts, ...
Not once did any of these people come clean and just admit that there was a meeting, or admit right away what the purpose of that meeting was.
When news of the Trump Tower meeting broke, Trump dictated a deeply misleading statement aboard Air-Force 1 that claimed the meeting was just about "adoptions."
Trump later said in a NYT interview that he discussed "adoptions" (Magnitsky sanctions) with Putin the day before the NYT report broke.
Of course Trump's dictated statement turned out to be at best deeply misleading. They later went on to admit that the meeting was advertised to Trump Jr as an offer of dirt on Hillary by the "Crown prosecutor of Russia" and "as part of Russia and its government's support for Mr. Trump."
That's just one example of Trump & co immediately coming up with a false cover story rather than even considering not lying.
Even long before he even became a subject in the Russia investigation (not long after Comey firing), Trump had already spent months repeatedly lying about the contacts and business dealings between him and his associates and Russia.
Everyone else went along, time and again. From no contacts with Russia by anyone, all the way to at least 100 contacts with 16 Trump associates including Trump himself.
In most of these instances of lying, whether to the public or to the FBI and Congress, the Russians would have been well aware of those lies.
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