Paul Manafort, Mr. Trump’s campaign chairman at the time, and Jared Kushner, Mr. Trump’s son-in-law and a key strategist, also attended. Only six months in, President Trump has compiled a record of dishonesty — ranging from casual misstatements to flat-out lies — without precedent in the modern presidency. If a culture of dishonesty takes root in an administration, how can Americans believe anything its officials say? Later, Mr. Trump made much the same claim on Twitter. On Monday, Donald Trump Jr. hired a lawyer, while maintaining on Twitter that he’d been forthright in answering questions about the meeting last year.

Source: New York Times July 11, 2017 07:18 UTC