Per Tweety, Trump Sr. wrote the "meeting about orphans" press release

[CatWoman]

[HipChick]

1. Plumber in chief

of all the leaks...

[CatWoman]

2. !!!

[meow2u3]

17. What a plumber!

Now he's clogged up the White House operations. WTG, Donald!

[malaise]

3. He's not just a pathological LIAR

he's beyond cynical - too late to try and cover this up - Tweety is correct

[HipChick]

7. Cover Up King....

I hope all this is keeping him up at night...

[malaise]

9. You betcha

He's in bad shape

[HipChick]

11. PutinLand?

When he starts dropping country names...

[Kingofalldems]

4. ?????

[CatWoman]

10. sorry

while returning from G20, Trump wrote the press release saying his son was meeting with the Russian atty to talk about Americans adopting Russian children.

[VermontKevin]

13. And incriminated his own son.

[Kingofalldems]

15. Ahh, thanks.

[VermontKevin]

5. So Sr. managed to incriminate Jr. on the sanctions issue. Perfect.

When the Kremlin Says ‘Adoptions,’ It Means ‘Sanctions’

The Interpreter

By AMANDA TAUB JULY 10, 2017

President Trump’s son Donald Trump Jr. initially defended his meeting with a Russian lawyer connected to the Kremlin during the 2016 presidential campaign by saying that it was primarily about adoption — a seemingly innocent humanitarian issue.

Reinstating American adoptions of Russian orphans certainly seems like a far less serious matter than a meeting about, say, the removal of United States sanctions on certain Russian officials.

But from the Russian perspective, whether the younger Mr. Trump and his associates knew it at the time or not, the issues of adoptions and sanctions are so inextricably linked as to be practically synonymous. (Mr. Trump said in a later statement that the lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya, had also promised to give him compromising information about Hillary Clinton.)

Understanding the connections between adoptions and sanctions offers a lens into the worldview and foreign policy goals of President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, and into how even a meeting that really did focus primarily on adoption would also have been about much more.

What connects the two issues? Leverage.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/10/world/americas/kremlin-adoptions-sanctions-russia.html

[flamingdem]

6. I'm beginning to like this guy

Right out of central casting... for the Sopranos!

[dhol82]

8. That.Is.Mindbending!

Heard him and did a jaw drop.

[Takket]

12. Donny Dumbass and the Russians were just...

discussing the program being put in place to provide kittens and puppies to kids in the hospital with chronic diseases.... OBVIOUSLY!!!!!!!

[Mr. Ected]

14. So apparently Trump is tacitly admitting that he was aware of the meeting after all

And came up with a lie about its subject matter as primary cover for what actually transpired.

Now if we could figure out a way to dissuade 50 million Americans from believing in this lie-a-minute traitor.

[Tanuki]

16. As Kremlin Kelly Conway said in another context,

"The irony is delicious!"

[Solly Mack]

18. Yep. His tiny hands are all over it.