We are on Day 2 of White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders refusing to explain her false statement about the president’s own misleading statement on a 2016 Trump Tower meeting between Trump’s presidential campaign and a Russian lawyer. Here’s the background: Last summer, Sanders told reporters in a news briefing that President Trump “certainly didn't dictate" a misleading statement to the New York Times that claimed a 2016 Trump Tower meeting with a Russian lawyer was about adoptions. This Trump Tower meeting was already a key piece of evidence in the collusion investigation; legal experts have said that Trump Jr. and top Trump campaign aides even taking the meeting likely met the legal definition of collusion, or conspiracy with a foreign government. From the sidelines of the Group of 20 summit in Germany, Trump told his son to say the meeting about Clinton was really about something more benign. At one point, a reporter asked Sanders whether she was reluctant to talk about the Trump Tower statement because she, too, was being questioned by the special counsel.

Source: Washington Post June 05, 2018 21:04 UTC