Trump Lawyer Jay Sekulow Cites ‘Bad Information’ Over Erroneous Trump Tower Meeting Denial
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Jay Sekulow on Sunday commented on the Trump Tower meeting during an ABC News appearance.
President Trump's attorney Jay Sekulow has admitted that "bad information" led him to initially deny the president's involvement in crafting a misleading statement about a controversial meeting Donald Trump Jr. had with a Russian lawyer during the campaign.
"I had bad information at that time and made a mistake in my statement," Sekulow said. "I've talked about that before. That happens when you have cases like this."
He made the comment on ABC News' "This Week" Sunday during a discussion prompted by a tweet the president had posted that morning.
"Fake News reporting, a complete fabrication, that I am concerned about the meeting my wonderful son, Donald, had in Trump Tower. This was a meeting to get information on an opponent, totally legal and done all the time in politics - and it went nowhere. I did not know about it!" Trump wrote.
After Sekulow defended the legality of the interaction, he was confronted by a video clip of himself from July of last year asserting that the statement released after the meeting was spearheaded by Trump Jr., adding, "The president wasn't involved in that."
Claims made in the statement--that the meeting was supposed to be about adoptions--have since been revised to acknowledge that there was an "offer of allegedly damaging information on [Hillary] Clinton and the Democratic Party," reports CNN.
The White House has also since admitted that President Trump "weighed in" on the initial statement.
Nevertheless, the president has continued to deny wrongdoing. On Sunday, he called the investigation into his campaign's possible ties to Russia a "Rigged Witch Hunt."
President Trump's attorney Jay Sekulow has admitted that "bad information" led him to initially deny the president's involvement in crafting a misleading statement about a controversial meeting Donald Trump Jr. had with a Russian lawyer during the campaign.
"I had bad information at that time and made a mistake in my statement," Sekulow said. "I've talked about that before. That happens when you have cases like this."
He made the comment on ABC News' "This Week" Sunday during a discussion prompted by a tweet the president had posted that morning.
"Fake News reporting, a complete fabrication, that I am concerned about the meeting my wonderful son, Donald, had in Trump Tower. This was a meeting to get information on an opponent, totally legal and done all the time in politics - and it went nowhere. I did not know about it!" Trump wrote.
After Sekulow defended the legality of the interaction, he was confronted by a video clip of himself from July of last year asserting that the statement released after the meeting was spearheaded by Trump Jr., adding, "The president wasn't involved in that."
Claims made in the statement--that the meeting was supposed to be about adoptions--have since been revised to acknowledge that there was an "offer of allegedly damaging information on [Hillary] Clinton and the Democratic Party," reports CNN.
The White House has also since admitted that President Trump "weighed in" on the initial statement.
Nevertheless, the president has continued to deny wrongdoing. On Sunday, he called the investigation into his campaign's possible ties to Russia a "Rigged Witch Hunt."