Jake Tapper Just Took Down Trump Jr And Associates In Brutal 3 Min Segment (Video)

CNN’s Jake Tapper isn’t playing games.

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Tapper on Monday blasted Donald Trump Jr. and other members of Donald Trump’s campaign after Trump Jr admitted to taking a meeting with a Russian lawyer with extensive ties to the Kremlin after being promised damaging information about Hillary Clinton.

Tapper said that Trump Jr.’s acknowledgment that he took the meeting after being “promised damaging information about Clinton” is “something of a reversal” from his original claim that the meeting was about a Russian adoption program.

Tapper then played a video of Trump Jr. during the campaign claiming that accusations of Russian meddling were “so phony.” Tapper also noted that Trump Jr. was “quite dismissive of Clinton’s campaign manager blaming Russia” even after he was offered opposition research against his father’s opponent.

“That is quite a bit of moral outrage from someone who just weeks beforehand had met with a Russian lawyer who claimed to have damaging information about Hillary Clinton,” Tapper said.

The CNN host then turned to Vice President Mike Pence and Trump who both insist that “to the best of their knowledge” no one from the campaign met with Russians.

“To the best of our knowledge, at least five former or current members of President Trump’s team have not only had some contact with the Russians, the have lied, changed their stories or not been forthcoming with information about those contacts with the Russians,” Tapper explained, naming former National Security Adviser Mike Flynn, former Trump advisor Carter Page, Attorney General Jeff Sessions, top White House advisor Jared Kushner and now, Trump Jr.

“If these contacts and conversations with Russians were so innocent—as is being claimed—the obvious question: Why so many lies about them?” Tapper asked.

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