Campaign adviser changes story and now contradicts Trump, says Donald ordered Ukraine change at RNC

[deminks]

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/03/03/1639775/-Campaign-advisor-changes-story-and-now-contradicts-Trump-says-Donald-ordered-Ukraine-change-at-RNC

Donald Trump is having a very, very bad week. As reports emerge that several of his key advisers, including Attorney General Jeff Sessions, met with the Russians the week of the RNC convention, one former adviser has now publicly changed his story to contradict his former boss. Members of the Trump campaign interfered with an RNC delegate proposal to attach language to the official Republican Party platform that would back Ukraine, militarily and otherwise, if Russia tried to invade. You can read the backstory here. It was the only issue the Trump campaign intervened on while delegates were voting on the party’s platform. In a July 31, 2016, interview with George Stephanopoulos, less than two weeks after the push to remove the Ukraine language, Trump said he had absolutely nothing to do with the Ukraine change.

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Here’s where it is getting prickly for Donald Trump. J.D. Gordon did an interview with CNN reporter Jim Acosta and Gordon’s comments directly contradict Donald Trump’s statement in that Stephanopoulos interview:

Gordon's remarks represent a dramatic shift from previous comments, and they come as Attorney General Jeff Sessions faces intense scrutiny over two previously undisclosed meetings with Russia's ambassador to the US — one of which was timed to the convention.

In January, Gordon told Business Insider that he "never left" his "assigned side table" nor spoke publicly at the GOP national security subcommittee meeting, where the amendment — which originally called for "providing lethal defense weapons" to the Ukrainian army to fend off Russian-backed separatists — was read aloud, debated, and ultimately watered down to "providing appropriate assistance" to Ukraine.

According to CNN's Jim Acosta, however, Gordon said that at the RNC he and others "advocated for the GOP platform to include language against arming Ukrainians against pro-Russian rebels" because "this was in line with Trump's views, expressed at a March national security meeting at the unfinished Trump hotel" in Washington, DC.

Emphasis added. They were directed to do so at a meeting with Donald Trump himself. And who presided over that meeting? Attorney General Jeff Sessions:

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Business Insider link:

http://www.businessinsider.com/jd-gordon-trump-adviser-ukraine-rnc-2017-3

Then Wikileaks released the Kraken in return. From Russia with Love.

[tblue37]

1. K&R for visibility. nt

[murielm99]

2. I second that.

K&R

[calimary]

28. Third!

[dhill926]

3. well well well....

[Hortensis]

30. Yes, indeed. Anyone know why Mr. Gordon stepped

forward at this time? Assuming trying to cover his own ass, perhaps a message to the FBI, but any more than that?

[wishstar]

36. GOP Delegate Diana Denman whose proposed amendment helping Ukraine got taken out contradicted Gordon

see this other DU thread from earlier today explaining more about this GOP delegate who said Gordon wasn't telling truth before.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=8742420

[Hortensis]

44. Thanks, Wishstar.

[Atticus]

4. KICK! KICK! KICK! nm

[Fast Walker 52]

5. yeah, it's freaking CRAZY... also treasonous

this guy is running the world's biggest scam --in broad daylight.

[Blue_Tires]

6. This is like the 4th time they've changed the story

[ewagner]

7. kickety kick kick

I don't know the reputation of THE BUSINESS INSIDER. COM but if this is accurate, it's a direct link to the Russian Contacts and Republican Foreign Policy....which, of course, is now U.S. Foreign Policy...

and incidentally...

illegal as hell.

[wordpix]

13. +10000

[Hortensis]

31. My first question. Fwiw, Talking Points Memo is quoting this,

but it's too new for any of the investigative heavyweights to publish. We already knew the GOP's Ukraine position was the only change the Trump people in the room as the platform was drafted requested.

[Mc Mike]

42. The only change in the platform. nt.

[BainsBane]

8. and that was the ONLY change he requested

It's obvious what is going on. The Russians own him.

[wordpix]

14. They own him and now

they're trying to distance themselves since we're opening up can of worms about Russian spying, corruption, and money laundering. I hope Russian people are watching but of course, Pooty controls the media.

It's a bit different here with our First Amendment and all.

[Mc Mike]

41. Yep. The ONLY change in the repug platform from dRumpf co. nt

[lagomorph777]

9. Ouch.

That's going to sting.

[sarah FAILIN]

10. this has been my question for a long time

Who was responsible fot this change. This guy will talk if the right people get to him before Trump

[Borchkins]

11. K&R

[2naSalit]

12. K&R

[Lucinda]

15. KNR

[NoMoreRepugs]

16. so many little bits and pieces - if and when someone puts the puzzle together

it will be the biggest shitstorm EVER

[gademocrat7]

17. K&R!

[annabanana]

18. This is very significant. I remember when

it happened. The collusion was evident from the beginning.

[vlyons]

19. The plot thickens -- Dum De Dum Dum

[ffr]

20. Mega K&R to the Daily KOS for their reporting on this.

[Alice11111]

21. Yes, it was, but if DT goes down, Putin goes down. Demon

Demonstrations are already happening in Russia, and they take incredible risks to protests. Very brave people.
Maybe Putins goons will take care of him, but im sure that would be very hard, even for them, especially since the DT administration is keeping their distance from Russia now.
Putin obviously wants to shut this up. He didnt count on DT and team being so incompetent and ignorant. He didnt think that half of America was.so ignorant.

[secondwind]

22. K&R for the orange turd

[Ligyron]

23. K to the R!

[kentuck]

24. It sounds like a quid pro quo.

Putin assures Trump that he will continue to be able to get Russian financing for his buildings and real estate empire and Trump assures Putin that he will change the American policy of supporting the Ukraine against the pro-Russian rebels. As a bonus, Trump assures Putin that he will withdraw the sanctions and, with the assistance of the new Secretary of State, begin construction on the $800 billion oil deal in the Arctic, in partnership with Exxon.

[KingCharlemagne]

38. This is ezxacy why we need a Special Prosecutor - nt

[SunSeeker]

25. K & R

[bettyellen]

26. And trumps senying Page was an advisor, when he offered up his name himself when

Asked who was advising him- he said Carter Page, PHD.
LOL.

[JustAnotherGen]

27. Keeping it kicked up

[NewJeffCT]

29. wow, another lie from Team Trump

Will they ever tell the truth about anything?

[NastyRiffraff]

32. Another big fat KICK

It's no longer news that Dump is lying, but this adds to the drip, drip, drip.

[truebluegreen]

33. There goes one rat...

[JudyM]

34. K&R. Building the case for the extinction of the orange crested bloviator.

[nocalflea]

35. oh ! The rats arestarting to leave the sinking

ship.That didn't take long. Page is starting to lose it. Cohen's nervous.
I would love to be a fly on the wall in the Kushner home right now. Your husband or your father Ivanka ?

[ProudProgressiveNow]

37. K&R nt

[dalton99a]

39. Kick.

[grantcart]

40. I told you so, I told you so, I told you so

Oh yeah, I might have already mentioned it, lol.

We connect the dots 2 weeks before it hits the media

They went to the mat at the convention for a radical and surprising reversal of sanctions against Russia. There was no electoral advantage in making the change. They were sending a signal that they would bring the bacon home after the election.

Still, Republican delegates at last week’s national security committee platform meeting in Cleveland were surprised when the Trump campaign orchestrated a set of events to make sure that the GOP would not pledge to give Ukraine the weapons it has been asking for from the United States.

[Ilsa]

43. This needs to be in the downloadable document

with the people and timelines.

[MadLinguist]

46. Can you still access that document?

I had it in my browser tab for a few days, but now I get an error saying this:
We're sorry. You can't access this item because it is in violation of our Terms of Service.

[Martin Eden]

45. For once in his life ...

... Donald Trump actually paid for services rendered.

The question is whether this was just a down payment.

[spanone]

47. the so-called president has been compromised. a russian agent.