This morning President Donald J. Trump got on Twitter and posted a series of rants about the Media, Witch Hunts, Fake News, Tariffs, and then this happened…
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!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 5, 2018
Just in case somebody on the Trump legal team deletes it, below is a screenshot of the confession Tweet.
MSNBC posted this report describing President Trump’s Lawyer, Jay Sekulow’s reaction.
Trump lawyer Jay Sekulow weighs in on the president's tweet slamming report on Trump Tower meeting pic.twitter.com/W7Bou0GKNl
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) August 5, 2018
Jay Sekulow dug himself in deeper offered more on ABC.
Trump's lawyer Jay Sekulow: "There was investigations going on on Martin Luther King Jr. Do you think if President Kennedy would have gone to J. Edgar Hoover and said, 'Hey stop that,' that that would have been an obstruction of justice claim? Of course not." pic.twitter.com/9xE57OkANf
— Axios (@axios) August 5, 2018
Twitter reacted in kind
Here comes Kellyanne Conway to explain that Donald Trump committed alternative treason.
— Palmer Report (@PalmerReport) August 5, 2018
Your lede:
— David Frum (@davidfrum) August 5, 2018
President Trump today confessed that his son, son-in-law, and campaign chair met in June 2016 with Russian agents in hope of obtaining Russian intelligence to sway the 2016 election. Trump – who denies advance knowledge of the meeting – defends it as "totally legal."
I worked on the Obama campaign and we would never, ever, have held a meeting with a foreign power to "get information on an opponent." It doesn't happen "all the time in politics" – it's immoral, unpatriotic and part of a broader effort that was illegal. https://t.co/qKz8NcgwkB
— Ben Rhodes (@brhodes) August 5, 2018
Authors note: I an effort to remain somewhat balanced I tried to find any credible defence for Trump’s confession Tweet on Twitter, however there was none to be found. The usual Suspects, were tweeting about some Spy that drove Senator Dianne Feinstein around.
Legal Twitter showed up
I’ll just leave this here… pic.twitter.com/NZ9qeAsMrf
— Connie (@conniebaker10) August 5, 2018
Federal law, Section 30121 of Title 52, states that it is a crime for a foreign national to contribute money or other items of value to an American election, as well as making it illegal for an American to solicit such a contribution.
— Enough is enough – Kelsee Oliver❄??? (@YouGetaWish) August 5, 2018
For what it’s worth
My personal reaction was summed up nicely by Rick Wilson, one of my favorite follows.
Oh. My. God. https://t.co/xzJlzngoYH
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) August 5, 2018
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