'Your honor, I move for a bad court thingy.'
Appearing on This Week immediately after Trump's morning tweets, Trump attorney Jay Sekulow tried his level best to avoid saying that Donald Trump directly lied to him about his involvement in crafting a statement downplaying the significance of the 2016 Trump Tower meeting between Russian government-sent intermediaries and the topmost members of the Trump campaign, a meeting that Trump now admits was set up as an effort to "get information on" his election opponent.
Trump, during his return trip from a 2017 G20 summit, helped craft a statement for his son Donald Jr. in which he, or they, dismissed the meeting as instead being about "the adoption of Russian children." Sekulow had denied at the time that Trump was involved, leading George Stephanopoulos to this morning ask the obvious question: When did you learn that that denial wasn't true?
Sekulow's answer was instructive.
Well, let me tell you two things on that one. Number one, as you know, George, I was in the case at that point, what? A couple of weeks. And there was a lot of information that was gathering and as my colleague Rudy Giuliani said, I had -- I had bad information at that time and made a mistake in my statement. I’ve talked about that before. That happens when you have cases like this.
As far as when did we correct it, the important part is the information that we’ve shared with the Office of Special Counsel -- I’m not going to get into the details -- but we were very clear as to the situation involving that trip and the -- and the statements that were made to the New York Times. So I think it’s very important to point out that in a situation like this, you have -- over time, facts develop.
Sekulow starts out distancing himself from the mess by saying that by golly, he had just gotten there when all this awkwardness took place. But his main personal defense to this charge of lying is that he "had bad information at that time", and there's only one place information about whether Donald Trump did or did not conspire to draft a misleading excuse for the Trump Tower meeting: His client, the Oval Office garbage fire.
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