Commentary: The meeting wasn't 'totally legal'
by Harry Litman And David Lieberman, Los Angeles Times
Aug 08, 2018
3 minutes
Exposing a long-standing lie blunt even by his standards, President Trump on Sunday confessed by tweet that the purpose of the June 9, 2016, Trump Tower meeting between his campaign and a Kremlin-linked lawyer was "to get information on an opponent, totally legal and done all the time in politics."
It was left to his lawyer Jay Sekulow to try to clean up the mess. Addressing whether the meeting constituted a criminal violation, Sekulow told George Stephanopoulos on ABC's "This Week" that "you
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