President Donald Trump’s attorney Jay Sekulow on Sunday questioned the importance of a June 2016 meeting between Donald Trump Jr. and a Russian lawyer.
The special counsel Robert Mueller is investigating the meeting as part of the probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election and the Trump campaign’s possible involvement.
Sekulow’s comments come after media reports that Trump was worried about his son’s potential legal troubles because of the meeting, which the president dismissed in a Sunday morning tweet.
President Donald Trump’s attorney Jay Sekulow questioned the importance of a June 2016 meeting between Donald Trump Jr. and a Russian lawyer that reportedly has Trump worried about his son.
In an appearance on ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday, Sekulow expressed doubt over the legal violations that are in question for the meeting between top Trump campaign officials who met with the Russian lawyer and other Kremlin-linked individuals at Trump Tower in June 2016.
“The question is how would it be illegal,” Sekulow said to host George Stephanopoulos. “You have to look at what laws, rules, regulations, statutes are purportedly violated here.”
“Well, they’ve actually pointed to several, including conspiracy to defraud the United States,” Stephanopoulos shot back. “That would be one of the possible charges, aiding and abetting conspiracy.”
The special counsel Robert Mueller is investigating the meeting as part of the probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election and the Trump campaign’s possible involvement.
Shifting statements
Stephanopoulos also pressed Sekulow on his contradicting past statements about the meeting, including initially denying that the president partially crafted a statement on behalf of Trump Jr about the meeting.
The White House later admitted that Trump had dictated the statement.
Sekulow, who said he had just joined Trump’s legal team at the time, shrugged the mistake off as a result of “bad information.”
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Source:: Business Insider