Clinton calls Trump Jr.'s explanation of Russia meeting 'an absurd lie'
Source: Politico
By LOUIS NELSON 09/13/2017 09:39 AM EDT
The scramble to obfuscate the true nature of Donald Trump Jr.’s meeting last summer with a Russian attorney with ties to the Kremlin is “ridiculous” and “an absurd lie,” former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton said Wednesday morning.
Trump Jr. met last summer with a Russian attorney whom he had been led to believe was in possession of negative information about Clinton sourced from the Russian government. Trump Jr. initially said that the subject of the meeting had been the adoption of Russian children by Americans but was later forced to concede that he had taken the meeting because he had been promised damaging information about his father’s general election opponent.
“It's ridiculous. It's another absurd lie to cover up what really was going on which I hope we finally uncover and understand,” Clinton told NBC’s “Today” show in her first live TV interview since last November’s election.
Trump Jr. has said that he gleaned no useful information from the meeting, which was also attended by President Donald Trump’s then-campaign chairman Paul Manafort and Jared Kushner, the president’s son in law and a top White House adviser. The White House and those connected with the Trump campaign have insisted that there was no coordination between the president’s team and the Kremlin’s efforts to meddle in last year’s election.
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