Trump Sets Himself up for a Coverup Charge Aides Fear

[Pop23]

Interesting comment tonight on a news panel, it was said," Trump is so devoid from reality he could be guilty as hell and still pass a lie detector test.

And you thought they were talkin bout you.

Shucks, nearly famous!

 

[Reasonable]

Bush's ex lawyer: If Trump intentionally drafted a false statement for his son he should resign immediately..

Dude.... you're assuming Trump has a lick of integrity.

 

[Reasonable]

Interesting comment tonight on a news panel, it was said," Trump is so devoid from reality he could be guilty as hell and still pass a lie detector test.

And you thought they were talkin bout you.

Shucks, nearly famous!

Another low hanging fruit deplorable.

 

[Pop23]

Bush's ex lawyer: If Trump intentionally drafted a false statement for his son he should resign immediately..

Dude.... you're assuming Trump has a lick of integrity.

For drafting a false document?

Prisons gonna be mighty full of fiction writers.

 

[Pop23]

Interesting comment tonight on a news panel, it was said," Trump is so devoid from reality he could be guilty as hell and still pass a lie detector test.

And you thought they were talkin bout you.

Shucks, nearly famous!

Another low hanging fruit deplorable.

Hanging long and loose and fulla juice!

Yeehawwwwww

 

[whitehall]

While genuine fugitives and criminals employed by democrat operatives are arrested trying to flee to Pakistan and are alleged to have smashed evidence before an FBI raid, the Washington Post staff is busy manufacturing fake news about the President.allegedly dictating talking points. Who wooda thunk it?

 

[Reasonable]

Trump's lawyers must be pulling out their hair. They cannot defend a guy who won't take legal advice, who keeps tweeting about matters under investigation that can put him in legal jeopardy.

 

[Reasonable]

While genuine fugitives and criminals employed by democrat operatives are arrested trying to flee to Pakistan and are alleged to have smashed evidence before an FBI raid the Washington Post staff is busy manufacturing fake news about the President. Who wooda thunk it?

You wish it was fake news.
Nobody called the Washpo fake news back during Watergate.
I know you feel impotent that your nothing burger stories get no traction.

 

[Reasonable]

Bush's ex lawyer: If Trump intentionally drafted a false statement for his son he should resign immediately..

Dude.... you're assuming Trump has a lick of integrity.

For drafting a false document?

Prisons gonna be mighty full of fiction writers.

Presidents?
You don't know shit, drunk boy.

 

[Reasonable]

While genuine fugitives and criminals employed by democrat operatives are arrested trying to flee to Pakistan and are alleged to have smashed evidence before an FBI raid, the Washington Post staff is busy manufacturing fake news about the President.allegedly dictating talking points. Who wooda thunk it?

Whitehall: My stories real THEY ARE. It's big news. I promise. It's going to get traction any day now. Any day.

 

[Reasonable]

Richard Painter, Bush's exlawyer: Danger signs in any presidency: lots of generals in civilian posts, authoritarian rhetoric, disdain for judges.

 

[tinydancer]

So what is the crime here?

 

[Camp]

So what is the crime here?

Obstruction of Justice. Interfering with an FBI investigation. Tampering with a witness.

 

[my2¢]

I would have advised Donald Trump Jr. simply to say, "I did not have sex with that Russian," and leave it at that.

 

[Lakhota]

Trump is in deep legal shit.

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[Snouter]

Here is a vid about as relevant as this breaking fake news story.

 

[Lewdog]

Is it a coincidence that Trump Sr. told his son to say they talked about adoption... after HE said he talked to Putin at the G 20 Summit about adoption? Sounds to me like he was providing a background for what he was telling his son to lie about. That's not exactly a good sign.

 

[Lakhota]

I still can't believe this vulgar clown is the president.

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[oreo]

Breaking news: This story came from a source in the White House. I guess it can't be Reince Preibus. Ha!

Washington Post: Trump dictated son's misleading statement on meeting with Russian lawyer

• by Ashley Parker, Carol D. Leon

On the sidelines of the Group of 20 summit in Germany last month, President Donald Trump's advisers discussed how to respond to a new revelation that Trump's oldest son had met with a Russian lawyer during the 2016 campaign - a disclosure the advisers knew carried political and potentially legal peril.

The strategy, the advisers agreed, should be for Donald Trump Jr. to release a statement to get ahead of the story. They wanted to be truthful, so their account couldn't be repudiated later if the full details emerged.

But within hours, at the president's direction, the plan changed.

Flying home from Germany on July 8 aboard Air Force One, Trump personally dictated a statement in which Trump Jr. said he and the Russian lawyer had "primarily discussed a program about the adoption of Russian children" when they met in June 2016, according to multiple people with knowledge of the deliberations. The statement, issued to the New York Times as it prepared a story, emphasized that the subject of the meeting was "not a campaign issue at the time."

The claims were later shown to be misleading.

Over the next three days, multiple accounts of the meeting were provided to the media as public pressure mounted, with Trump Jr. ultimately acknowledging that he had accepted the meeting after receiving an email promising damaging information about Hillary Clinton as part of a Russian government effort to help his father's campaign.

The extent of the president's personal intervention in his son's response, the details of which have not previously been reported, adds to a series of actions that Trump has taken that some advisers fear could place him and some members of his inner circle in legal jeopardy.

As Special Counsel Robert Mueller investigates potential obstruction of justice as part of his broader probe of Russian interference in the 2016 election, these advisers worry that the president's direct involvement leaves him needlessly vulnerable to allegations of a coverup.

"This was . . . unnecessary," said one of the president's advisers, who like most other people interviewed for this story spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive internal deliberations. "Now someone can claim he's the one who attempted to mislead. Somebody can argue the president is saying he doesn't want you to say the whole truth."

Trump has already come under criticism for steps he has taken to challenge and undercut the Russia probe.

He fired FBI Director James Comey on May 9 after a private meeting in which Comey said the president asked him if he could end the investigation of ousted national security adviser Michael Flynn.

Director of National Intelligence Daniel Coats told associates that Trump asked him in March if he could intervene with Comey to get the bureau to back off its focus on Flynn. In addition, Trump has repeatedly criticized Attorney General Jeff Sessions for recusing himself from overseeing the FBI's Russian investigation - a decision that was one factor leading to the appointment of Mueller. And he has privately discussed his power to issue pardons, including for himself, and explored potential avenues for undercutting Mueller's work.

Although misleading the public or the press is not a crime, advisers to Trump and his family told The Washington Post that they fear any indication that Trump was seeking to hide information about contacts between his campaign and Russians almost inevitably would draw additional scrutiny from Mueller.

Trump, they say, is increasingly acting as his own lawyer, strategist and publicist, often disregarding the recommendations of the professionals he has hired.

"He refuses to sit still," the presidential adviser said. "He doesn't think he's in any legal jeopardy, so he really views this as a political problem he is going to solve by himself."

Trump has said that the Russia probe is "the greatest witch hunt in political history," calling it an elaborate hoax created by Democrats to explain Clinton losing an election she should have won.

Because Trump believes he is innocent, some advisers explained, he therefore does not think he is at any legal risk for a coverup. In his mind, they said, there is nothing to conceal.

The White House directed all questions for this story to the president's legal team.

Washington Post: Trump dictated son's misleading statement on meeting with Russian lawyer

In this article are a couple of good points.

1. Director of National Intelligence Daniel Coats can verify Comey's memo's--which Mueller would want verification from people Comey talked too.
2. You're right if he was involved in the misleading statements about this meeting at the Trump tower--it certainly does involve him into a coverup.
3. I imagine it was Reince Preibus that leaked this information because he was continually with Trump.

But for Obstruction of Justice, in my opinion, which Comey mentioned under testimony was that interview that Trump did with Lestor Holt on NBC--where he actually stated he fired Comey over the Russian investigation. You can watch the interview from this link.
Donald Trump admits 'this Russia thing' part of reasoning for firing Comey

 

[Reasonable]

Here is a vid about as relevant as this breaking fake news story.

Ya know the story doesn't go away just because you scream fake news.