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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump attorney Sekulow: Secret Service allowed Don Jr. meeting, which proves it wasn't "nefarious."
One of President Donald Trumps personal lawyers defended a meeting that the presidents son had with Russian nationals during the 2016 campaign, suggesting the fact that the Secret Service allowed the meeting showed it was not nefarious.
Well, I wonder why the Secret Service, if this was nefarious, why the Secret Service allowed these people in. The president had Secret Service protection at that point, and that raised a question with me, Jay Sekulow, a member of Trumps legal team, said on Sunday on the ABC news program This Week.
Trumps son, Donald Trump Jr., acknowledged meeting with a Russian lawyer in New York City during the 2016 presidential campaign after he was told she might have damaging information about his fathers rival, Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton.
According to emails released by Trump Jr. last week, he eagerly agreed to meet the woman, who he was told was a Russian government lawyer. The woman, Natalia Veselnitskaya, said she is a private lawyer and denies having Kremlin ties.
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/07/trump-lawyer-defends-don-jr-meeting-and-blames-secret-service-for-allowing-it/
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Trump attorney Sekulow: Secret Service allowed Don Jr. meeting, which proves it wasn't "nefarious." (Original Post)
Miles Archer
Jul 2017
OP
so according to sekulow, the SS determines what policy can be discussed in meetings ????
spanone
Jul 2017
#5
This lawyer is just throwing garbage at the wall. He'd best be careful what he wishes for, as the
WinkyDink
Jul 2017
#6
greatauntoftriplets
(175,749 posts)1. I've never thought that the SS were babysitters.
greymattermom
(5,754 posts)2. So what is the secret service's job again?
Just to make sure the folks allowed in weren't armed? More than that?
mnmoderatedem
(3,729 posts)4. part of their job is to carry the nuclear suitcase
that is, when trump is not outing them while they are doing so.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,836 posts)10. No, a military guy does that, not Secret Service
roamer65
(36,747 posts)3. Sekulow is a fucking scumbag.
spanone
(135,874 posts)5. so according to sekulow, the SS determines what policy can be discussed in meetings ????
i did not know that...
sinkingfeeling
(51,473 posts)9. +1000
elehhhhna
(32,076 posts)11. Supposed to protect these dimwits from themselves
Lmao
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)6. This lawyer is just throwing garbage at the wall. He'd best be careful what he wishes for, as the
main task of the S.S. is to track down FINANCIAL FRAUD.
DetlefK
(16,423 posts)7. Okay, I started a fight in the club. But it wasn't nefarious: The bouncers had let me in.
MFM008
(19,818 posts)8. Smarmy
Smirking arrogant bitches.
Warpy
(111,339 posts)12. Uh, no, asshole. Good that they're picking incompetent lawyers, though.
SS are bodyguards, not advisors and not regular cops. They're around to make sure daddy's little boy didn't get mugged, murdered, or even kidnapped. That is the full extent of the job.
I can't believe somebody who made it through law school is this stupid. Or maybe he's a Trumper who thinks everybody else is stupid enough to buy this line of total bullshit.