"Truth isn't truth" wasn't the only alternative fact Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani spun on Meet the Press Sunday. He also tried to sell the nation on the lie that Trump campaign chiefs Don Jr., Jared Kushner, and Paul Manafort didn't know Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya was Russian or that she was a representative of the Russian government.
"She didn’t represent the Russian government, she’s a private citizen," Giuliani told Chuck Todd. "I don’t even know if they knew she was Russian at the time. All they had was her name."
Todd responded, "I think they knew she was Russian, but okay."
"Well, they knew it when they met with her, not when they set up the meeting," Giuliani shot back. "They didn’t know she was a representative of the Russian government and indeed, she’s not a representative of the Russian government. So, this is much ado about nothing."
Right. Another lie. Here's what Rob Goldstone told Don Jr. in the email to set up the meeting—which Jr. later publicly released himself!
The Crown prosecutor of Russia met with his father Aras this morning and in their meeting offered to provide the Trump campaign with some official documents and information that would incriminate Hillary and her dealings with Russia and would be very useful to your father. This is obviously very high level and sensitive information but is part of Russia and its government's support for Mr. Trump
That's when Jr. famously responded, "if it's what you say I love it." Even by Giuliani’s own declaration that “they knew it when they met with her,” they still should have contacted the FBI immediately. That never happened. They contacted no one and then lied about the meeting when reporters started sniffing around. Between Trump, Don Jr. and now Rudy, it’s nearly impossible to track all the times that they have lied about the Trump Tower meeting. And that’s the truth.