Trump Lawyer Confirms Meeting Ukrainian, Denies Carrying Peace Plan
Source: MSN/NBC News
President Trump's personal lawyer has acknowledged to NBC News that he met privately in New York last month with a controversial Russian-born Trump associate and a member of Ukraine's parliament, but disputes a New York Times report that the men gave him a peace plan for Ukraine that he delivered to then-National Security Adviser Mike Flynn.
The episode is drawing scrutiny because of the intense interest in any dealings by Trump associates having to do with Russia or Russia-related issues.
The Times reported that the meeting was called to discuss a peace plan being pushed by a Ukrainian lawmaker, Andrey Artemenko, who is associated with a former Ukrainian leader backed by Russian president Vladimir Putin and advised by Paul Manafort, Trump's former campaign chairman.
Manafort is the subject of an FBI inquiry over his Ukraine dealings, and the FBI is also investigating whether any Trump associates colluded with the Russian campaign to interfere in the U.S. presidential election.
Read more: http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-lawyer-confirms-meeting-ukrainian-denies-carrying-peace-plan/ar-AAn9dwP?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=UE01DHP
Drip drip drip...Trump's lawyer now confirms NY Times reports of a meeting that Trump and company have been deriding as fake news...
livetohike
(22,163 posts)straight. Hope this all comes up together soon and we can be rid of all of them.
bucolic_frolic
(43,281 posts)they were pushing the #fakenews angle for a calculated reason
No better way to coverup than to have evidence disbelieved
George II
(67,782 posts)ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)I thought he already said he delivered it but didn't know what it was. WTF?
Is this the way it's going to be from now until 2020? Who's on first... Were we supposed to have been studying Russian literature so that we'd have experience keeping all the names and their relations to one another straight?
yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)"a Russian agent"?
SunSeeker
(51,689 posts)cstanleytech
(26,319 posts)involved also he specified documents but what if he delivered a usb drive with the deal on it? Technically he would not be "lying" he would claim but we all know its just misdirecting and still a lie.
FailureToCommunicate
(14,020 posts)orangecrush
(19,617 posts)Slowly the wheels of justice grind...
Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)Remember that it was two years between the Watergate break-in and Nixon's resignation.
It's unbelievable how fast this stuff is happening in just one month.
czarjak
(11,289 posts)and that's the truth", huh?
turbinetree
(24,720 posts)and since Manafort and this crowd are heavily involved in this sh**t, I just wonder how they can explain the deaths of people falling out of the sky and getting shot down needlessly, and on the ground needlessly, and the Fitash "guy", that the DOJ has been trying to get a hold of for over 3 years being in Austria.
As Maddow tonight, said he is the thread to this entire corruption scheme, and he knows
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)"... so as long as we only admit to just the meeting and deny everything else then they'll never be able to prove a thing. But we have to stick to our story Comrade."