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August 6, 2018

Trump Tweet Reveals He Lied Last Year About Son's 2016 Meeting with Russian Lawyer
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President Trump has admitted that the purpose of a June 2016 meeting in
Trump Tower between a Kremlin-connected lawyer and Trump's son, Donald
Trump Jr., was to get dirt on Hillary Clinton. On Sunday, Trump tweeted,
"Fake News reporting, a complete fabrication, that I am concerned about
the meeting my wonderful son, Donald, had in Trump Tower. This was a
meeting to get information on an opponent, totally legal and done all
the time in politics–and it went nowhere. I did not know about
it!" Trump's tweet reveals that he lied last year when he personally
dictated a statement, released by his son, Donald Trump Jr., which
claimed the meeting was mostly about U.S. adoption of Russian children.


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