TPM - "It Took 3 Days For Don Jr. To Cop To Meeting Russian Lawyer For Clinton Dirt"

[NRaleighLiberal]

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/donald-trump-jr-shifting-accounts-veselnitskaya-meeting

By ALLEGRA KIRKLAND Published JULY 10, 2017 11:02 AM

Donald Trump Jr. has offered three different explanations over the course of three days for why he met with a Kremlin-linked Russian lawyer two weeks after his father secured the 2016 Republican presidential nomination.

That Trump’s eldest son took the meeting at Trump Tower, with his brother-in-law Jared Kushner and Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort in tow, in the hopes of digging up dirt on his father’s likely presidential opponent shows that some Trump campaign figures had no qualms about accepting help from a Russian national. The news comes as a special counsel, as well as four congressional committees, are probing Russia’s interference in the 2016 election and whether anyone associated with the Trump campaign colluded with Russian operatives.

When The New York Times first broke the news Saturday about the meeting, which took place on June 9, 2016, Trump Jr. offered no indication that it was related to the presidential campaign.

“It was a short introductory meeting,” he said in a statement to the newspaper. “I asked Jared and Paul to stop by. We primarily discussed a program about the adoption of Russian children that was active and popular with American families years ago and was since ended by the Russian government, but it was not a campaign issue at the time and there was no follow up.”


snip - lots more to read at the link

[TEB]

1. He had to think up a bullshit story it took awhile

[cyclonefence]

2. actually, the Russian adoption program

was ended in response to the sanctions placed on Russia by Barack Obama, so "meeting to discuss the Russian adoption program" isn't an innocent explanation either.