President Trump denied on Friday that he was aware of any meeting between his eldest son Donald Trump Jr. and Russians in June 2016.
“NO, I did NOT know of the meeting with my son, Don Jr.,” Trump tweeted Friday morning. “Sounds to me like someone is trying to make up stories in order to get himself out of an unrelated jam.”
Trump said he was repeating himself because he didn’t want the “fake news” to waste his time with “dumb questions.”
….,the only Collusion with Russia was with the Democrats, so now they are looking at my Tweets (along with 53 million other people) – the rigged Witch Hunt continues! How stupid and unfair to our Country….And so the Fake News doesn’t waste my time with dumb questions, NO,….
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 27, 2018
…..I did NOT know of the meeting with my son, Don jr. Sounds to me like someone is trying to make up stories in order to get himself out of an unrelated jam (Taxi cabs maybe?). He even retained Bill and Crooked Hillary’s lawyer. Gee, I wonder if they helped him make the choice!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 27, 2018
Despite Trump’s claims, his former lawyer Michael Cohen said that Trump knew in advance that Don Jr. was planning a meeting with Russians in the hopes of obtaining negative intel regarding Hillary Clinton and her campaign.
According to people who spoke with Cohen, he said he is willing to make that statement to special counsel Robert Mueller, who is investigating Trump and his campaign for possible collusion with Russia to win the 2016 presidential election.
However, Trump still maintains that Mueller and his “gang of 13 Angry Democrats” cannot find any collusion between him and Russia, and claims that is why they have resorted to looking at his tweets.
Arrived back in Washington last night from a very emotional reopening of a major U.S. Steel plant in Granite City, Illinois, only to be greeted with the ridiculous news that the highly conflicted Robert Mueller and his gang of 13 Angry Democrats obviously cannot find Collusion…
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 27, 2018
