But now, more than a year later, a recent statement from the Justice Department suggests Trump’s assertion was misleading. In other words, I believe the president was lying not merely about the underlying facts but also about his own Justice Department. When Wittes didn’t receive a response to his FOIA request from the Justice Department by August 2017, he filed a lawsuit against the DOJ. In February, he received 57 pages from the Justice Department’s National Security Division. And neither was it true about the Justice Department.”The White House did not immediately return HuffPost’s request for comment.

Source: Huffington Post August 01, 2018 22:04 UTC