Before Donald Trump was talking about how “transparent” his son Donald Jr. has been, this happened:
As Air Force One jetted back from Europe on Saturday, a small cadre of Mr. Trump’s advisers huddled in a cabin helping to craft a statement for the president’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., to give to The New York Times explaining why he met last summer with a lawyer connected to the Russian government. Participants on the plane and back in the United States debated how transparent to be in the statement, according to people familiar with the discussions.
Ultimately, the people said, the president signed off on a statement from Donald Trump Jr. for The Times that was so incomplete that it required day after day of follow-up statements, each more revealing than the last.
So Senior’s advisers wrote and he signed off on the totally non-transparent statement before days of new revelations (and lies) finally led to something like transparency, at least about that one specific meeting with a Russian lawyer.
But trust them!