Former Watergate prosecutor: Trump Jr.'s statement 'a fake sick note'

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Metro


The president and his son took a page out of elementary school, says Jill Wine-Banks.
By
Michael Martin
Published : August 03, 2017

A former Watergate special prosecutor has no patience for Donald Trump Jr.'s original statement about his meeting with a Russian lawyer linked to the Kremlin, saying it reminded her of a "fake sick note."

In an interview on MSNBC, Jill Wine-Banks said it looked like Donald Trump was making excuses for his son. Trump Jr. originally said that he met with Natalia Veselnitskaya in Trump Tower last June to discuss Russian adoption. He later changed his story after an email thread emerged in which Trump Jr. was aware that Veselnitskaya was proffering damaging information about then-presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.

Last week it emerged that President Trump had dictated his son's original misleading statement.

Wine-Banks said that in doing so, the president was "acting in totally reckless disregard of the truth or he deliberately lied by knowing the truth."

Read more: http://www.metro.us/president-trump/jill-wine-banks-watergate-prosecutor-russia-statement

[Kingofalldems]

1. Funny. Poor little rich boy got a note from daddy.

[SwissTony]

2. I don't get it. Why would he agree to meet with this woman to discuss adoption?

What's his expertise in the subject? What's hers? Is Russian adoption a major problem in the US?

This whole story is covered in a deep layer of BS.

[volstork]

4. Adoption was the ostensible reason.

Putin shut down American adoption of Russian children after the Magnitsky act was signed by Obama.

Here is a link that is helpful in understanding the story: https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/07/magnitsky-act-kremlin/535044/

[calimary]

12. Seriously, though, I cannot fathom, for the life of me, how Donnie Junior would give

a flea's ass about American adoptions of Russian children. He's just NOT that altruistic OR philanthropic. Same for that whole selfish, thoughtless, and greedy family.

[volstork]

13. That's just it--

NONE of it is about adoption per se. Putin closed American adoption of Russian children after the magnitsky act was signed as punishment for the signing. The act was part of sanctions put on Russia, so any discussion of "adoption" is REALLY a discussion of sanctions, and therefore, collusion. Their goose is cooked. Well-done. With ketchup.

[Quanta]

7. Anytime they say adoption, they are talking about the sanctions.

[mobeau69]

11. LOL. That's all there is to it. Adoption equals Sanctions.

[Honeycombe8]

8. The adoption issue became related to the sanctions at some point.

1. Americans adopt a lot of Russian children. Often they are very ill or disabled.

2. U.S. issued sanctions against Russia (not sure which sanctions or when they were passed).

3. Putin was so angry about those sanctions, he retaliated in part by stopping the adoption of Russian children by Americans. What this means, sadly, is that those children have horrible lives in front of them, since Russia doesn't take care of them or provide for them. They house them in big institutions with not nice surrounding and little health care.

So if someone were discussing with Russians the "adoption" issue, then that would mean they are really discussing the SANCTIONS.

It's unclear to me if Putin had stopped the adoptions at that time (summer 2016). If he had, I don't see where saying the topic was adoptions gives Jr. a way out, since that would mean they would be discussing the sanctions.

We know, though, that they were there to get dirt on Clinton.

[VermontKevin]

9. Adoption means Sanctions.

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

[dixiegrrrrl]

14. There are those who suspect "adoption" was code for snactions

Since it was the sanctions, and Putin's subsequent ban on adopting russian children.

[louis-t]

3. Signed: Epstein's mother.

[monmouth4]

5. Love it..

[eppur_se_muova]

15. That was the ultimate giveaway. nt

[Akamai]

6. She has been great on the Rachel Maddow show. Serious, pleasant very knowledgable. Very much

a class act!

[rurallib]

10. How can we expect Junior to grow up to be a responsible citizen

if his father is always trying to buy his way out of trouble?
Seems like the rich are often not good parents.

Hopefully Junior can out grow his father's bad influence by the time he gets out of high school.
But he better quit running around with that Kushner kid.

[FakeNoose]

16. I think it's already too late for Junior

He's in way over his head, and so is Jared Kushner.

These kids have been drinking the koolaid for as long they can remember.