Sunday, June 17, 2018

"Trump doesn't pay for anything"

Former Trump campaign adviser Roger Stone said that he met with a Russian man during the 2016 campaign who wanted President Trump to pay $2 million for damaging information on Hillary Clinton.

The Washington Post reported Sunday that Stone met with the man in May 2016, in a meeting set up by Trump campaign aide Michael Caputo. The meeting was previously unreported.

Stone told the Post that the man had requested Trump pay $2 million for dirt on Clinton, but that Stone rejected the offer.

“You don’t understand Donald Trump,” Stone said he told the man. “He doesn’t pay for anything.”

Special counsel Robert Mueller is now investigating the meeting, Caputo told the Post.

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The Post noted that the meeting means that at least 11 Trump officials or associates have admitted to contacts with Russians during the 2016 campaign or transition.

  The Hill
Rudy Giuliani said Sunday he doubts President Trump knew that his longtime adviser, Roger Stone, met during the 2016 campaign with a Russian man who offered dirt on Hillary Clinton.

  The Hill
Innocent Trump had no idea that all those people around him were colluding with the Russians. That's believable.
“I doubt it. I certainly didn’t know about it. It’s news to me,” the president’s lawyer said on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
Let's think about this, Rudy. Why would anyone tell you anything?
“It seems to me, however, whatever the differing recollections about this, it sort of gets resolved that Stone did nothing about it,” he continued. “He came to the conclusion, according to The (Washington) Post that it was a waste of time.”

“I can’t imagine anything got back to the then presidential candidate that was of any substance,” he added.
This is one of my favorite attempts at a defense they trot out from time to time - we tried, but we didn't get anything. I tried to rob a store, but they'd already shipped their day's take to a bank. Lucky me, or I'd go to jail.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

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