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But when approached by journalists, the younger Mr. Trump issued a statement that omitted all of that. Instead, the statement said that the meeting had primarily been about Russian adoption policy. When The Times reported that the president himself had �
�signed off on” the statement, Mr. Trump’s advisers pushed back hard.

“They’re incorrect,” Mr. Sekulow said on CNN.
“The New York Times is wrong?” he was asked.
“Yeah, I know, is that shocking that sometimes they make a mistake?” Mr. Sekulow said.

Then The Washington Post reported that Mr. Trump had not only approved it, but had personally dictated it. Mr. Sekulow responded, “Apart from being of no consequence, the characterizations are misinformed, inaccurate and not pertinent.”

The Times has since obtained a confidential memo to Mr. Mueller acknowledging that “the president dictated a short but accurate response to The New York Times article on behalf of his son, Donald Trump, Jr.” The memo adds that “this subject is a
private matter with The New York Times.”

Mr. Trump has for years held the view that fudging the facts with journalists is far from a federal offense, and has acknowledged as much in civil lawsuits. He has acknowledged practicing what he calls “truthful hyperbole,” and has waved away
outright falsehoods, dismissing them as smart public relations. Asked in court why he overstated his property sales on national television, Mr. Trump replied,
“We do want to put the best spin on the property.”

After his firing, Mr. Tillerson delivered a barely veiled criticism of his former boss’s trustworthiness, declaring that American democracy was threatened by a crisis of integrity. “When we as people, a free people, go wobbly on the truth even on
what may seem the most trivial matters, we go wobbly on America,” he said in a commencement address last month.

Mr. Mueller has told Mr. Trump’s lawyers that only by interviewing the president can prosecutors determine whether he had intended to obstruct justice. Mr. Trump has said he is eager to sit for an interview. He told reporters in January that he
expected to do so within “two to three weeks.”

That did not happen, and his lawyers are not sure it ever will.

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Back then (in January) I was already certain it would only happen
when either hell freezes over, or when everything became so insane
that Trump would have no choice but to be interviewed or impeached.
And that's still how I see it. :)

This article highlights only ONE of the dozens of diabolical things
Trump and his people have been doing continually: "deny facts,
attack news outlets and dismiss journalism as 'fake news.' "
And those are some of the tactics of authoritarian states.

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