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"Anyone would have taken that meeting..."
Trump didn't dismiss idea when adviser suggested setting up Putin meeting - CNNPolitics

 

Mueller schedules interview with Hope Hicks

 

His daughters for sure know.

 

Freudian slip.

“I think the reaction of the Administration is let the legal justice system work, everyone’s innocent until—presumed innocent—and we’ll see where it goes,” John Kelly, the White House chief of staff, told Fox News’s Laura Ingraham on Monday night.

 

@YankeeFan is Sarah Sanders' spirit animal.

“Papadopoulos is an example of actually somebody doing the wrong thing while the president's campaign did the right thing,” Sanders said. “All of his emails were voluntarily provided to the special counsel by the campaign, and that is what led to the process and the place that we’re in right now is the campaign fully cooperating and helping with that. What Papadopoulos did was lie, and that’s on him and not on the campaign, and we can’t speak to that.”

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment about when the documents in question had been turned over. Papadopoulos was initially interviewed as part of the FBI’s probe into Russian election meddling on Jan. 27. He was arrested in July.

The Washington Post reported that Trump’s campaign handed over emails implicating Papadopoulos to the special counsel in August — after he had already been arrested.

White House wants credit for Papadopoulos arrest

 

"The situation called for that rarest of events: a government body saying the clear truth about something everybody already knew."


Paul Manafort and the Case of the $250,000 Antique-Rug-Store Bill

 

It really is amazing how this administration is not only WRONG on everything, but finds a way to be completely and totally at odds with the truth every time someone speaks.

“My understanding is there wasn’t encouragement,” Sanders said.

But according to the plea deal, the official who has been identified as Clovis wrote, “I would encourage you … [to] make the trip … if it is feasible.”

 

Trump is living inside a Springsteen song.

 

The problem with black Africans is they don't compromise enough -- amirite, board Republicans?

 

Outing Alert: Starman was Donald Trump.