During his 2016 campaign for President, Donald Trump neither agreed to nor rejected the idea of meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, CNN reported Wednesday.
CNN reported, citing an unnamed source in the room when Trump met with foreign policy advisers in March 2016, that Trump “didn’t say yes and he didn’t say no” when his former campaign adviser George Papadopoulos floated the idea.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions, then the chairman of Trump’s national security team and a Republican senator, firmly rejected the idea, according to CNN’s report.
Papadopoulos pleaded guilty earlier in October to making false statements to the FBI about his contacts with Russian nationals.
He regularly informed other members of the Trump campaign about those communications, according to court documents unsealed Monday, and introduced himself at the campaign’s foreign policy meeting in March 2016 by saying “he had connections that could help arrange a meeting between” Trump and Putin.
White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders told CNN on Wednesday that Trump did not recall what specifically took place in the meeting.
“Again, it was a brief meeting that took place quite some time ago,” she told CNN. “It was the one time that group ever met.”
This creates a problem for Sessions. Because unlike a lot of other people who have said that there was no discussions, ever, in the campaign about contacting Russia…Sessions said it under oath.
No, no , no…CNN. He didn’t say yes, nor did he say no to the creamer. That “excellent guy” was merely the coffee boy…let’s keep our story straight here, shall we?
Besides, as we all recall, the “I love it” part came a bit later, with Trump Jr.
Based on Sanders veracity standards, I would say this means the group met weekly for 90 minutes each time.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions, then the chairman of Trump’s national security team and a Republican senator, firmly rejected the idea [of Trump meeting with Putin].
Why? Did Sessions think it would attract too much attention to the collusion and Russian cyber attack interference in the campaign and election?
I’m too indecisive to be a crook.