When one only lies–continuously–to the American public this is what happens.
Recall that flying home from Germany on July 8 2017 aboard Air Force One, Trump personally dictated a statement in which Trump Jr. said that he and the Russian lawyer had “primarily discussed a program about the adoption of Russian children” when they met in June 2016. The statement, issued to the New York Times as it prepared an article, emphasized that the subject of the meeting was “not a campaign issue at the time.”
Trump said the meeting was about adoptions. Was he telling the truth then–or now? And how can we tell?
Donald Trump said on Sunday that a Trump Tower meeting between top campaign aides and a Kremlin-connected lawyer was designed to “get information on an opponent” — the starkest acknowledgment yet that a statement he dictated last year about the encounter was a lie.
Trump made the comment in a tweet which was intended to be a defense of the June 2016 meeting and the role his son, Donald Trump Jr., played in hosting it.
But the tweet also served as an admission that the Trump team had not been forthright when Donald Trump Jr. issued a statement in July 2017 saying that the meeting had been primarily about the adoption of Russian children.
That statement is being scrutinized by the special counsel, Rober Mueller, who is examining a broad array of Trump’s tweets and public statements to determine whether he made them as part of an effort to deceive investigators.
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