Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA), the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, said Tuesday that there are “no excuses” for Donald Trump, Jr.’s shifting story about a meeting he attended during the 2016 campaign with the knowledge that he would be offered damaging information about his father’s likely presidential opponent as part of a Russian government effort to help the Trump campaign.
“This is black and white: Trump officials at the highest levels knew Russia was working to aid Donald Trump & welcomed Russia’s interference,” Warner tweeted.
He added that “there are no excuses for what we’ve seen in the last 24 hours.” Warner did not mention Trump Jr. by name, but appeared to be referring to reports published over the weekend about the eldest Trump son’s meeting with Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya.
“Lying is not a rookie mistake,” Warner wrote. “We now know the denials of contacts with Russians that we’ve heard during the campaign, transition & administration are all patently false.”
This is black and white: Trump officials at the highest levels knew Russia was working to aid Donald Trump & welcomed Russia's interference.
— Mark Warner (@MarkWarner) July 11, 2017
There are no excuses for what we’ve seen in the last 24 hours. Lying is not a rookie mistake.
— Mark Warner (@MarkWarner) July 11, 2017
This investigation will move forward in a bipartisan way. We need to follow the facts wherever they lead.
— Mark Warner (@MarkWarner) July 11, 2017
In the Trump Temple, lying is a sacrament … to create an America friendlier to conservatives, by washing itself of its atheist Satan-worshiping browns, libs, “defectives” and the democrat party in a thousand year rule.
When it is in your DNA lying is pathological.
Go for it Senator. Maybe someday the people who elected our whack-job “President” will come to realize that he and his kin are all pathological liars and con-men, . . . and, oh yes, con-women.
In Jr’s fleece padded world, lying has always worked before. Has he ever been held accountable for his actions? Has anyone in the family? The yes people this family surrounds itself with have always bought their BS. The cold shower of reality may truly be a shock to this sorry excuse for a man.
And they have been lying for months and months and months…