Trump Lied, He Met With Russian Ambassador During Campaign
Donald Trump and his team have said multiple times that Trump never had any contact with Russian officials during the campaign. Turns out those were lies. Trump in fact met with the Russian ambassador during the campaign.
And at least five members of his team also met with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak before Trump officially took office.
Until now Trump’s team has cast aside those meetings saying that the key issue is that Trump himself never met with the Russians. “The big point here is the president himself knows what his involvement was, and that’s zero,” Huckabee Sanders said on March 3. “And I think that he’s the primary person that should be held responsible, and he had no interaction, and I think that’s what the story should be focused on.”
But here’s the thing about that, it’s a lie. As AmericaBlog noted, a Wall Street Journal report from May 13 indicates that Trump met with the Russian ambassador on April 27, right smack dab in the middle of the campaign.
Here is what the Wall Street Journal reported, “I believe an easing of tensions, and improved relations with Russia—from a position of strength only—is possible, absolutely possible,” Mr. Trump said in a foreign-policy speech at Washington’s Mayflower Hotel in April. “Some say the Russians won’t be reasonable. I intend to find out.
“A few minutes before he made those remarks, Mr. Trump met at a VIP reception with Russia’s ambassador to the U.S., Sergey Ivanovich Kislyak. Mr. Trump warmly greeted Mr. Kislyak and three other foreign ambassadors who came to the reception.”
The White House says there is “no recollection” of the meeting between Trump and the Russian ambassador.
