The misleading statement may become evidence of obstruction of justice.
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And, as it turns out…this is not a misleading statement.
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The misleading statement is but one aspect of Mr. Mueller's investigation.
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And to be sure, not every misleading statement is equally meaningful.
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It soon emerged that the President apparently had dictated the misleading statement.
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Asked if he's ever heard the president make a misleading statement, Rep.
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And this misleading statement, we now know, was crafted by President Trump himself.
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That misleading statement was dictated by Trump himself, according to The Washington Post.
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" The misleading statement the president crafted read: "It was a short introductory meeting.
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Now The Washington Post reported Monday evening that the President dictated the misleading statement.
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No, the president did not dictate a misleading statement released in his son's name.
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The president's lawyers initially said he had no role in drafting his son's misleading statement.
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"If (Sessions) were the prosecutor, he would go after somebody" who provided a similarly misleading statement.
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RELATED: WaPo: Trump helped come up with misleading statement on Jr.'s meeting Jay Sekulow, one of the attorneys representing Trump in the Russia investigation, previously denied on CNN that his client was involved with crafting a misleading statement about Trump Jr.'s June 2016 meeting.
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Why did Trump dictate a misleading statement on Air Force One about the nature of the meeting?
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That initial, misleading statement was the work of President Trump himself, the Washington Post reported on Monday.
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On Air Force One, Trump helped his son, Don Jr., prepare a misleading statement about the meeting.
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Hicks reportedly helped draft Trump Jr.'s initial misleading statement about his meeting with a Russian lawyer.
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But we don't know what the president knew when he drafted the misleading statement for his son.
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They said they "disagreed" with the Senate report's claim that they had put out a misleading statement.
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Klobuchar: OK. So, what if a president drafted a misleading statement to conceal the purpose of a meeting?
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Papadopoulos pleaded guilty in 2017 to a misleading statement about his knowledge of facts in the Russia case.
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Trump's attorney Jay Sekulow initially claimed that Trump was not involved in crafting Trump Jr.'s misleading statement.
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Later, it was reported that this misleading statement by the president's son was crafted by the president himself.
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He may have played a role in the misleading statement from Mr. Trump about the Trump Tower meeting.
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The President's spokespeople initially denied he was involved in crafting his son's first, misleading statement to The Times.
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However, a misleading statement is not a crime in itself — or half of Washington would be serving time.
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President Trump oversaw the drafting of a misleading statement about the meeting that said it didn't concern campaign issues.
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This is an outdated and misleading statement based on a letter from the staff association written in 2016. Sorry.
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The White House also said the president later "weighed in" on his son's initial misleading statement about the meeting.
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His campaign released a misleading statement on April Fool's Day claiming that Handel had dropped out and endorsed Gray.
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A meeting he denies knowing about in advance, and initially crafted a misleading statement about, was perfectly legal anyway!
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Earlier Monday, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders declined to explain the contradictory positions offered about the misleading statement.
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We know that Donald Trump dictated Trump Jr.'s original misleading statement when the news of the meeting broke.
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Mueller has maintained that any intentional false or misleading statement to investigators constitutes a crime under 18 U.S.C. 85033.
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Earlier this week, The Washington Post reported that Trump dictated Trump Jr.'s initial misleading statement on the meeting.
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Harvard Professor Laurence Tribe stated that the dictating of a misleading statement about the meeting could constitute witness tampering.
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Later, the report affirms that Trump himself dictated a misleading statement to the press saying the meeting was about adoption.
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It clear that Wade was not arrested after his selection as a candidate, so this misleading statement should be retracted.
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Tribe previously argued that Trump could be charged with witness tampering for dictating a misleading statement on the Trump Tower meeting.
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Air Force One Rather than taking the obvious path of making full disclosure, Trump Jr. issued a misleading statement about the meeting.
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President Trump's advisers eventually said the president dictated the misleading statement put out in his son's name, after initially denying his involvement.
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Hicks reportedly helped draft Trump Jr.'s initial, misleading statement about the meeting, claiming he met with her to discuss Russian adoptions.
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The November filing signed by Ross had indicated that intentionally false or misleading statement in the form is a violation of law.
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Some have argued that Trump may have been trying to throw investigators off the trail of the meeting with the misleading statement.
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The Washington Post later reported that Trump "dictated" the initially misleading statement his son put out after he was contacted about the story.
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The DOJ in its letter pointed out that Puerto Ricans are US citizenship by birth, asking that the "potentially misleading" statement be removed.
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The investigative team is reportedly interested in speaking with those who were witnesses or involved in how the misleading statement came to be.
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We know that on Air Force One a year later, Trump helped his son, Don Jr., prepare a misleading statement about the meeting.
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Cohen told Congress last week that Sekulow had helped him craft a misleading statement about efforts to build a Trump tower in Moscow.
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Trump's involvement in drafting the misleading statement isn't a revelation, but Corallo's alleged information about a previously undisclosed call is a new development.
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This isn't the standard-issue deception or misleading statement; this is a lie that has implications well beyond just the lack of truth.
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" Washington Post Fact Checker's Glenn Kessler said in his analysis of the op-ed that "almost every sentence contained a misleading statement or falsehood.
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Though Democrats have used this number to deride the bill and claim that it only helps the rich, this is a shamefully misleading statement.
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Trump Jr. initially responded to the first revelations about the meeting by releasing a misleading statement claiming the meeting primarily concerned Russian adoption policy.
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" That "wide leeway" allowed Trump to produce a column in which, according to Kessler, "almost every sentence contained a misleading statement or a falsehood.
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An alleged false or misleading statement by McCabe could rekindle questions about how the Justice Department addresses alleged false statements within its own ranks.
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Minutes before the New York Times publishes its story about the misleading statement, Trump Jr. tweets images of the email exchange obtained by the newspaper.
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There are the things like a misleading statement about his son&aposs meeting with the Russians in June of 2016 that the president helped draft.
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Questions have also emerged over an initial, misleading statement about the meeting issued by Trump Jr. after the Times first reported on the meeting's existence.
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Mueller is also trying to establish Trump's involvement in drafting a misleading statement about the meeting and the subsequent release of Don Jr.'s emails.
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Numerous White House aides and lawyers for the president aggressively denied at the time that the president had been involved in drafting the misleading statement.
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Sources told NBC that the special counsel's investigators are largely interested in why Trump helped draft a misleading statement regarding the meeting one year later.
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Tornetta says cops then provided a misleading statement to investigators -- saying he punched the horse -- when in fact, he never intentionally struck anyone ... human or equine.
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When The Times found out about the meeting, Mr. Trump helped draft a misleading statement in his son's name, omitting the true purpose of the meeting.
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Hicks was aboard Air Force One when the initial misleading statement about Donald Trump Jr.'s meeting with a Russian lawyer at Trump Tower was crafted.
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"Almost every sentence contained a misleading statement or a falsehood," Glenn Kessler of The Washington Post's Fact Checker said in his analysis of the president's op-ed.
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The White House has said the President weighed in on a misleading statement his son issued after the meeting became publicly known, more than a year later.
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In helping to draft a misleading statement, the president put concern for family ahead of his duty to those whose interests the president was elected to serve.
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But gradually, White House allies anonymously leaked what they claimed was a rationale for this baldly misleading statement — Durbin, and the Post's sources, was one syllable off.
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Nielsen had tweeted: "We do not have a policy of separating families at the border," a misleading statement that also contradicted other Trump officials speaking the same day.
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Pro tip, kids: Next time you need help writing a misleading statement to the press about your meeting with a Kremlin-backed lawyer, ask your dad for help.
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Last July, the Washington Post published a report claiming that President Trump instructed his son Donald Trump Jr. to release a misleading statement about the Trump Tower meeting.
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Mueller report: After news broke of Donald Trump Jr.'s meeting with Russians at Trump Tower, the president dictated a misleading statement that characterized the meeting as about adoptions.
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The plea deal included Lewis' admission that he had given a misleading statement to police by initially telling them he was not present at the scene of the crime.
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Revelations the President may have personally dictated a misleading statement given to The New York Times about his son's meeting with a Russian lawyer is the latest example why.
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On that same flight that he called Sanger, Trump also "dictated" a misleading statement given to the Times about his son's controversial 2016 meeting with Russians at Trump Tower.
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The meeting, which Trump later helped craft a misleading statement defending, was a key event investigated by former special counsel Robert Mueller in his probe of Russia's election interference.
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Fact Check WASHINGTON — President Trump has accused his predecessor of "doing nothing" in response to Russia's interference in the 2016 election — a misleading statement that contradicts his previous comments.
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We know that Mueller is investigating the June 2016 meeting, and Trump's helping to draft a misleading statement for his son is evidence that Mueller will undoubtedly find informative.
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A lie is a more malicious concealment, rarer than the garden-variety "misleading statement," but that's plainly what his lie about terrorism was: A conscious effort to mislead the public.
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The report recounts how in July 2017, Trump directed Hicks to issue a misleading statement to the press saying only that the Trump Tower meeting had been about Russian adoption.
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Trump Jr. also said he spoke to Hope Hicks, and not directly to his father, about crafting the misleading statement he released when the story was first breaking, according to CNN.
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" The claims Trump made were also widely debunked by various fact-checkers, including Politifact, and the Washington Post, which found that "almost every sentence contained a misleading statement or a falsehood.
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They include a 2016 meeting at Trump Tower between campaign officials and a Russian lawyer offering damaging information on Hillary Clinton and the drafting of a misleading statement about the meeting.
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In a report by The Washington Post on July 31, it was revealed that Donald Trump personally dictated his son Donald Trump Jr.'s misleading statement about meeting with a Russian lawyer.
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Trump's involvement in creating the misleading statement isn't a revelation — but Corallo's information represents the latest development in the investigation into whether the president or his close aides attempted to obstruct justice.
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Although Hicks was not present for that meeting, she reportedly helped draft Trump Jr.'s initial, misleading statement about the meeting that claimed he met with the lawyer to discuss Russian adoptions.
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When news reports revealed the existence of the meeting in July 2017, a misleading statement was put out in Trump Jr.'s name that claimed the meeting was primarily about Russian adoptions.
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CNN reported that Trump Jr., in his testimony, said he did not directly speak with his father about his initial, misleading statement about the Trump Tower meeting in June 2016 with Veselnitskaya.
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Corallo left the campaign in July of last year, after the administration released a misleading statement on the 2016 Trump Tower meeting that has become a focal point of the election investigations.
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And in recent days, Sanders has been pressed with questions about a misleading statement drafted aboard Air Force One last summer regarding Donald Trump Jr.'s meeting in Trump Tower with Russian officials.
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Mr. Trump also personally dictated a misleading statement to The New York Times about a secret meeting that his son arranged with a Russian lawyer at Trump Tower during the 2016 presidential campaign.
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The story revealed that when news about Donald Trump Jr.'s meeting with a Russian lawyer broke earlier this month, the president himself "personally dictated" the extremely misleading statement his son released in response.
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On July 31st the Washington Post reported that last month he defied his counsellors and lawyers to dictate personally a misleading statement about a meeting with a Russian lawyer released under his son's name.
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In comments that appeared late on Saturday, Mr. Lu acknowledged that Longmay workers' wages were overdue and obliquely blamed subordinates for his earlier misleading statement, according to a report on a Heilongjiang government website.
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The Washington Post reported last July that during a flight home from Germany on Air Force One, the president "personally dictated" his son's initial, misleading statement claiming the meeting was to discuss Russian adoption.
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President Trump President Donald Trump dictated a misleading statement for his son in response to a news report that Donald Trump Jr. had met with a Russian lawyer during the campaign, the Washington Post reported.
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The Washington Post reported that Trump dictated — on Air Force One, no less — his son's misleading statement about that meeting with the Russian lawyer who promised dirt on Hillary Clinton during the 2016 U.S. election.
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The indictment alleges that Manafort and Gates concealed their scheme to avoid registering as a foreign agent in the United States by providing a "false and misleading" statement to two unnamed lobbying firms they retained.
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And a secret memo we obtained includes his lawyers' stark private acknowledgment of something his team publicly, repeatedly denied: that Mr. Trump had dictated a misleading statement about his son's meeting with a Russian lawyer.
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According to the report, Mueller and his investigative team want to speak with those involved in order to see if relevant details were purposefully left out and probe how the misleading statement came to be.
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He personally dictated a misleading statement, saying the meeting was about Russian adoptions without admitting that it was actually intended to accept Moscow's aid for his campaign, as emails obtained by The Times later documented.
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The White House admitted Tuesday that President Donald Trump "weighed in" on the misleading statement released by his eldest son in response to revelations that Donald Trump Jr. met with a Russian lawyer in June 2016.
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Now it appears that Mueller will look to McGahn for answers as to why Trump crafted a misleading statement about his son's meeting with two Russians — a lawyer and a lobbyist — at Trump Tower last June.
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Why it matters: This comes a day after Press Secretary Sarah Sanders confirmed that Trump helped craft Trump Jr.'s initial, misleading statement on the matter, after weeks of White House denials that Trump was involved.
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While Sanders denied in 2017 that Trump dictated a misleading statement to The New York Times regarding his son Donald Trump Jr.'s 2016 Trump Tower meeting with Russians, we now know Sanders' statement was false.
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And a secret memo we obtained includes his lawyers' stark private acknowledgment of something his team publicly and repeatedly denied: that Mr. Trump had dictated a misleading statement about his son's meeting with a Russian lawyer.
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House Intelligence Committee ranking member Adam Schiff said Hicks would not discuss, for instance, her role in drafting the misleading statement from Donald Trump Jr. about the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting with a Russian lawyer.
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"Simply put, if a state law purports to require food labeling to include a false or misleading statement, the FDA may decide to step in," he said, arguing that any such coffee label would violate federal law.
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Washington (CNN)In response to New York Times reporting that Donald Trump Jr. met with a Russian lawyer during the campaign, President Donald Trump dictated a misleading statement for his son, The Washington Post reported Monday evening.
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Johnson's most vulnerable moment as foreign secretary came when he was heavily criticised for making a misleading statement about Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a British-Iranian woman serving a five-year jail term in Iran for alleged spying.
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Donovan also questioned whether Twitter would actually enforce the fact-check policy in practice, particularly against prominent people, and asked how many times a prominent figure would be able to tweet a misleading statement before being banned.
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But The Washington Post reported later last year that President Trump had dictated the initial misleading statement for his son while flying back to Washington from the G-20 summit in Hamburg, Germany, aboard Air Force One.
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She may face questions about President Donald Trump's threats to stop making key Obamacare subsidy payments, the escalating tension with North Korea and reports about the president's role in a misleading statement his son gave last month.
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The President and his advisers, who were returning from a trip to Europe aboard Air Force One, prepared a misleading statement about the purpose of the meeting, asserting that it had been a harmless discussion of adoption policy.
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Mr. Ganek has said his inability to refute a misleading statement by law enforcement that he had some awareness of insider trading at the firm, Level Global Investors, ultimately forced him to close the hedge fund in 2011.
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FBI special counsel Robert Mueller wants to know what President Donald Trump was thinking when he fired James Comey as FBI director and helped craft a misleading statement about his son's meeting with Russians last year at Trump Tower.
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Schiff, the top Democrat involved in the House investigation into Russia's efforts to influence last year's election, characterized the news about Cohen's efforts on the potential Moscow project as "yet another" misleading statement from the Trump administration about Russia.
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Washington (CNN)White House press secretary Sarah Sanders refused again on Tuesday to correct her August statement that President Donald Trump wasn't involved in drafting a misleading statement about his son's meeting with a Russian lawyer at Trump Tower.
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Much of the information that the witnesses told the committee has been unearthed by the media already, such as the promise of "dirt" from Russian government sources and the President's involvement in the drafting of his son's misleading statement.
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Washington (CNN)Jay Sekulow, an attorney for President Donald Trump, said Sunday that he made a mistake by denying Trump was involved in a misleading statement last year on Donald Trump Jr.'s meeting at Trump Tower with a Russian attorney.
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First, this is not "fake news" but serious news created by Trump and his team in issuing a clearly misleading statement to the New York Times, then issuing a false statement denying that Trump drafted the statement to the media.
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CNN previously reported that Mueller's team approached the White House about questioning officials who were on Air Force One when the initial misleading statement was drafted about Donald Trump Jr.'s 2016 meeting with a Russian lawyer at Trump Tower.
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Though he has shied away from some of the Leave campaign's wilder claims—including Mr Johnson's misleading statement that the NHS would get £350m ($428m) a week of extra funding after Brexit—he has compared the EU to the Titanic.
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Also, Special Counsel Robert Mueller's team has approached the White House about interviewing staffers who were aboard Air Force One when the initial misleading statement about Trump Jr.'s meeting with the Russian lawyer was crafted, three sources familiar with the conversations said.
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Nine days later, CNN reports that they discussed four main topic areas: the June 203 Trump Tower meeting attended by Donald Trump Jr. and Russians, the President's role in crafting a misleading statement about that meeting and the dismissals of Comey and Flynn.
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Hicks appears to have firsthand knowledge of a number of key events that have shaped the first year of the Trump White House, including being on Air Force One when the initial misleading statement about Trump Jr.'s meeting with Russians was crafted.
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"I'm not going to get into a back-and-forth," the White House press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, said last month when confronted with her unequivocal, and false, denials that Mr. Trump had dictated his son's misleading statement about meeting with Russians.
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This confirms a New York Times report in July 2017 that disclosed that the president had helped draft the misleading statement made by his son Donald Trump Jr. and pushed for a version that did not reveal the true nature of the meeting.
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In a confidential memo to the special counsel, Mr. Trump's legal team admitted that the president, not his eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., drafted a misleading statement about a Trump Tower meeting in 2016 between a Kremlin-tied lawyer and campaign officials.
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Hicks appeared to have firsthand knowledge of a number of key events that shaped the first year of the Trump White House, including being on Air Force One when the initial misleading statement about Donald Trump Jr.'s meeting with Russians was crafted.
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So did a succession of spectacular charges in Wolff's book, including a report that Trump personally directed the misleading statement about the meeting of his son Donald Trump Jr. and other top advisers with Russians offering "dirt" on Hillary Clinton in June 2016.
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There might not be any SEC action this time, either, but it's only a matter of time before an executive gets accused of making a false or misleading statement on social media, said Kevin LaCroix, an attorney focused on management liability issues.
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In one of these answers, Dowd and Sekulow appeared to admit that the president had personally dictated a highly misleading statement that his son Don Jr. released about his Trump Tower meeting with a Russian delegation — something Sekulow had repeatedly denied last year.
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" Following the announcement, Trump lawyer Alan Futerfas told CNBC, "Contrary to the NYAG's misleading statement issued earlier today, the Foundation has been seeking to dissolve and distribute its remaining assets to worthwhile charitable causes since Donald J. Trump's victory in the 2016 Presidential election.
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Trump and his allies have sharply attacked the California lawmaker for giving a misleading statement on whether he'd been in contact with the whistleblower before the complaint was filed, and for exaggerating what Trump had said in the July 25 phone call during a hearing.
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From drafting a misleading statement for the White House about Jr.'s shady meeting or defending Porter after he was credibly accused of domestic abuse by three women, Hicks has shown exactly where her interests lie — and that's with protecting the Trump administration and herself.
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Hicks was a key player in crafting a misleading statement about the infamous June 2016 Trump Tower meeting, in which Trump claimed a meeting between a Kremlin-linked lawyer and Donald Trump Jr. — first reported by the New York Times — was about Russian adoptions.
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The White House struggled to explain why press secretary Sarah Sanders and one of the President's top lawyers had insisted the President had nothing to do with drafting a misleading statement about a meeting in Trump tower involving a Russian delegation before the 2016 election.
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A former Trump legal team spokesman has reportedly hired a pair of Washington, D.C.-based lawyers after he was tied in a new book to the creation of a misleading statement about the 2016 Trump Tower meeting between Trump campaign leaders and Russian officials.
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Staff members have been working long hours answering Mr. Mueller's request for 13 categories of documents, including records related to Mr. Comey's firing and Mr. Trump's role in drafting a misleading statement about a June 2016 meeting between campaign officials and Russian-born visitors.
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But Hicks will not exit the White House unstained, having drawn the scrutiny of special counsel Robert Mueller over her role in crafting the misleading statement about Donald Trump Jr.'s meeting with a Russian lawyer promising dirt on Hillary Clinton during the 2016 campaign.
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After the New York Times broke news about the Trump Tower meeting in the summer of 2017, Donald Trump dictated a misleading statement for his son that claimed "a program about the adoption of Russian children" was the reason his campaign met with Russians.
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A federal judge on Friday threw out a lawsuit by former GFI Group Inc shareholders, who said a single misleading statement by its chairman caused them to prematurely sell their shares at a lower price than if they had waited for a bidding war to ensue.
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The 62-year-old lawyer has been a strong defender of the President since joining his team, notably providing false statements during multiple media interviews about the President's involvement in a misleading statement about Donald Trump Jr.'s controversial 2016 meeting with Russians at Trump Tower.
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Former Trump legal spokesman Mark Corallo said on an ABC News podcast that Hope Hicks, who previously served as White House communications director, told him that "nobody's ever going to see" the documents about the drafting of a misleading statement on the infamous 2016 Trump Tower meeting.
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Three sources familiar with the conversation told CNN that the special counsel has approached the White House about interviewing staffers who were aboard Air Force One when the initial misleading statement about Donald Trump Jr.'s meeting with a Russian lawyer at Trump Tower was crafted.
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Mueller's team has approached the White House about interviewing staffers who were aboard Air Force One when the initial misleading statement about Donald Trump Jr.'s meeting with a Russian lawyer at Trump Tower was crafted, three sources familiar with the conversations told CNN last month.
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White House press secretary Sarah Sanders later admitted last year that Trump "weighed in" on the initial misleading statement about the Trump Tower meeting, and Trump's legal team sent a letter to special counsel Robert Mueller in January acknowledging that Trump had "dictated" the initial statement.
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And he dismissed the importance of a misleading statement he dictated last year about a Trump Tower meeting with Russians during the 2016 campaign, a statement that his lawyer and spokeswoman at first denied he had dictated even though his legal team later admitted that he had.
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WASHINGTON — The White House confirmed on Tuesday that President Trump was involved in drafting a misleading statement issued by his son about a meeting with a Russian lawyer last year, contradicting the president's lawyer who repeatedly denied that Mr. Trump had anything to do with the statement.
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In its inquiry, the Financial Conduct Authority said that it had found that Tesco put out a misleading statement in August 2014 about its expected profit in the first half of the year and relied on information provided to it by Tesco Stores Limited in doing so.
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Special Counsel Robert Mueller's team has asked the White House about interviewing staffers who were on Air Force One when President Trump helped his son draft a misleading statement about the purpose of his meeting with a Russian attorney, CNN reports citing three sources familiar with the conversations.
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Washington (CNN)Special Counsel Robert Mueller's team has approached the White House about interviewing staffers who were aboard Air Force One when the initial misleading statement about Donald Trump Jr.'s meeting with a Russian lawyer at Trump Tower was crafted, three sources familiar with the conversations said.
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Regarding the now infamously misleading statement that Trump Jr. released after news of the June 2016 meeting broke -- that the participants had "primarily discussed a program about the adoption of Russian children" -- his testimony reveals that his account of what happened diverges materially from reporting by the Washington Post.
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Mr. Cobb and several White House lawyers have spent weeks reviewing documents related to numerous subjects, including Mr. Trump's firing of Mr. Comey, and his role in July in drafting a misleading statement to The New York Times about Donald Trump Jr.'s meeting with a Russian lawyer in June 2016.
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In two weeks' time, one of Trump's lawyers has been proven a liar for repeatedly claiming that Trump had not been involved at all in the drafting of the misleading statement that his son Donald Jr. issued about his now-infamous meeting with Russians in Trump Tower during the presidential campaign.
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Hicks was interviewed over two days in December as part of the probe into whether the Trump campaign aided Russia in meddling in the 2016 election, and her role in crafting a misleading statement about the Trump Tower meeting between Trump's eldest son and a Russian lawyer continues to draw scrutiny.
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The source said that several topics did not come up during Wednesday's interview included the initial misleading statement crafted on Air Force One about the Trump Tower meeting and the hush money payments Cohen facilitated in the run up to the 2016 election to silence allegations that Trump had affairs with two women.
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EDT This article has been updated to include the fact that a link in the op-ed leads to an article which pointed out the president's claim was false as well as a link to the Washington Post which claims almost every sentence in Trump's op-ed included a misleading statement or falsehood.
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But his advocacy for Trump in the court of public opinion was not without its stumbles; in July 2017, Sekulow told CNN and other news outlets that the President was not involved in crafting a misleading statement about a Trump Tower meeting his son, son-in-law and campaign manager held in 2016.
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What, if anything, Donald J. Trump knew about the Trump Tower meeting as a presidential candidate — and his role in drafting a misleading statement about it once he was president and it became public — are key questions for the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, who is investigating Russian interference in the election.
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Hicks has also been present for key moments of interest to Russia investigators, including an Air Force One flight last July on which Trump and his advisers and family members crafted a misleading statement about a June 2016 meeting at Trump Tower with a Kremlin-connected Russian lawyer promising dirt on Hillary Clinton.
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She reportedly helped draft Donald Trump Jr.Donald (Don) John TrumpDick Cheney to attend fundraiser supporting Trump reelection: report House chairman warns foreign governments to 'cease and desist' spending money at Trump properties Chris Cuomo: 'I should be better than the guys baiting me' MORE's initial misleading statement about his meeting with a Russian lawyer.
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She reportedly helped draft Donald Trump Jr.Donald (Don) John TrumpDick Cheney to attend fundraiser supporting Trump reelection: report House chairman warns foreign governments to 'cease and desist' spending money at Trump properties Chris Cuomo: 'I should be better than the guys baiting me' MORE's initial misleading statement about his meeting with a Russian lawyer.
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Mueller has questioned her about a meeting on Air Force One as Trump returned from a July trip to Europe, in which Trump, his aides and family members crafted a misleading statement about a June 2016 Trump Tower meeting organized by his son, Donald Trump Jr., with a Russian lawyer offering dirt on Hillary Clinton.
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Hicks was blocked from answering questions about Trump's potential obstructive conducted outlined in the Mueller report, including the firing of FBI director James Comey, efforts to fire the special counsel, attempts to get Attorney General Jeff Sessions to "unrecuse" himself, the drafting of a misleading statement about the infamous June 2016 Trump Tower meeting, and more.
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The White House communications director is a crucial witness for the investigation because of her close ties to President Trump and the Trump family throughout the campaign, transition and presidency, and her involvement in drafting a misleading statement about the infamous June 2016 meeting at Trump Tower between a Russian lawyer and top Trump campaign aides.
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The misleading statement, issued in July 2017 to The New York Times, obfuscated the true nature of the June 2016 meeting at Trump Tower, which was attended by Donald Trump Jr., then-Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner, who is now a senior White House adviser, and a group of Kremlin-tied Russians.
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"The meeting -- and the subsequent drafting of a misleading statement on Air Force One -- has become one of the most important focal points of the Russia investigations, both on Capitol Hill and within Mueller's team, because it provides one of the clearest indications that the Trump campaign was willing to entertain collusion with Russians," the report said.
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There was nothing unlawful about the meeting, yet Flynn was charged by special counsel Robert MuellerRobert (Bob) Swan MuellerTrump calls for probe of Obama book deal Democrats express private disappointment with Mueller testimony Kellyanne Conway: 'I'd like to know' if Mueller read his own report MORE with a false or misleading statement under 18 U.S.C. 1001.
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While the investigation was extensive with some 500 interviews, Mueller's investigators did not get to talk to some key figures, including the President and his son, Donald Trump Jr., who would have had insights into both the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting and also how the misleading statement to the press about the meeting was crafted.
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Mr. Bannon has limited firsthand knowledge about two key issues within Mr. Mueller's purview — the president's firing of James B. Comey as F.B.I. director, a decision made without Mr. Bannon present, and the drafting of a misleading statement about the subject of the June 2016 meeting with Russians, in which they promised damaging information about Hillary Clinton.
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Why it matters: The meeting — and the subsequent drafting of a misleading statement on Air Force One — has become one of the most important focal points of the Russia investigations, both on Capitol Hill and within Robert Mueller's team, because it provides the closest thing that exists to evidence that the Trump campaign was willing to entertain collusion with Russians.
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Among them were his dismissal of James B. Comey as F.B.I. director, attempts to fire Mr. Mueller, efforts to pressure the attorney general at the time, Jeff Sessions, not to recuse himself from the inquiry and then to reverse that decision and retake control of the inquiry, issuing a misleading statement about a meeting with Russians and potentially trying to influence witness testimony.
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White House communications director Hope Hicks, whose role in drafting a misleading statement about Donald Trump Jr.'s meeting with a Russian lawyer at Trump Tower has drawn Mueller's scrutiny, obtained a full Top Secret and sensitive compartmented information, or SCI, security clearances -- the highest levels of access -- in November or earlier, according to information obtained by CNN from a US government official.
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"In cases where people have gone to the media with statements that are incorrect or misleading which are printed or broadcast, we are able under the Social Services Act to release information about the person for the purposes of, I quote, 'correcting a mistake of fact, a misleading perception or impression, or a misleading statement in relation to a welfare recipient,'" he said in parliament Tuesday.
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The Washington Post in July reported that President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE had played a role in crafting the initial, misleading statement aboard Air Force One.
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President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE reportedly dictated a misleading statement about his son's meeting with a Russian lawyer that was ultimately issued to The New York Times by Donald Trump Jr., The Washington Post reported Monday evening.
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She was a key witness for Mueller, offering information about major moments including Trump's role in crafting a misleading statement about the Trump Tower meeting in 2016 during which Donald Trump Jr.Donald (Don) John TrumpPETA billboard in Baltimore calls Kushner a 'rich pest' Dick Cheney to attend fundraiser supporting Trump reelection: report House chairman warns foreign governments to 'cease and desist' spending money at Trump properties MORE was expected to receive dirt on Clinton from a Kremlin-linked lawyer.
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She will likely face questions about any contacts between Trump associates and Moscow, as well as the White House's involvement in writing a misleading statement about Donald Trump Jr.Donald (Don) John TrumpDick Cheney to attend fundraiser supporting Trump reelection: report House chairman warns foreign governments to 'cease and desist' spending money at Trump properties Chris Cuomo: 'I should be better than the guys baiting me' MORE's meeting with a Russian lawyer in Trump Tower during the campaign.
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Trump personal counsel Jay Sekulow was criticized for going on the air to insist that the president "didn't sign off" on Donald Trump Jr.Donald (Don) John TrumpDick Cheney to attend fundraiser supporting Trump reelection: report House chairman warns foreign governments to 'cease and desist' spending money at Trump properties Chris Cuomo: 'I should be better than the guys baiting me' MORE's misleading statement about his meeting in Trump Tower with Russian representatives; it turned out that Trump dictated the statement on Air Force One.
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Hicks was prevented from answering questions about Trump's direction that former White House counsel Don McGahn have Mueller removed; the resignation of onetime national security adviser Michael Flynn; Trump's firing of FBI Director James ComeyJames Brien Comey3 real problems Republicans need to address to win in 85033 Barr predicts progressive prosecutors will lead to 'more crime, more victims' James Comey shows our criminal justice system works as intended MORE; and Trump's involvement in the crafting of a misleading statement about the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting, among other topics.
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Author Michael Wolff wrote in his book "Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House" that Corallo quit over concerns about a misleading statement that Trump helped to write about the meeting with the Russian lawyer that included Donald Trump Jr.Donald (Don) John TrumpDick Cheney to attend fundraiser supporting Trump reelection: report House chairman warns foreign governments to 'cease and desist' spending money at Trump properties Chris Cuomo: 'I should be better than the guys baiting me' MORE "Mark Corallo was instructed not to speak to the press, indeed not to even answer the phone," Wolff wrote.
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In the book, Wolff states that the former spokesman quit after helping Trump to write a misleading statement about Donald Trump Jr.Donald (Don) John TrumpDick Cheney to attend fundraiser supporting Trump reelection: report House chairman warns foreign governments to 'cease and desist' spending money at Trump properties Chris Cuomo: 'I should be better than the guys baiting me' MORE's 2016 meeting with a Russian lawyer who he'd been told could offer dirt on Democratic presidential nominee Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Anti-Trump vets join Steyer group in pressing Democrats to impeach Trump Republicans plot comeback in New Jersey MORE.
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Donald Trump Jr.Donald (Don) John TrumpDick Cheney to attend fundraiser supporting Trump reelection: report House chairman warns foreign governments to 'cease and desist' spending money at Trump properties Chris Cuomo: 'I should be better than the guys baiting me' MORE told lawmakers he does not know whether his father, President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE, had a role in drafting his initial, misleading statement about a June 2016 meeting at Trump Tower, according to transcripts released Wednesday by the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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Investigators working for Robert MuellerRobert (Bob) Swan MuellerTrump calls for probe of Obama book deal Democrats express private disappointment with Mueller testimony Kellyanne Conway: 'I'd like to know' if Mueller read his own report MORE want to ask Trump about a highly scrutinized 2016 Trump Tower meeting between Russians and several Trump campaign officials, his involvement in a misleading statement about his son's role in the meeting, and his firing of both his national security adviser Michael Flynn and FBI Director James ComeyJames Brien Comey3 real problems Republicans need to address to win in 2020 Barr predicts progressive prosecutors will lead to 'more crime, more victims' James Comey shows our criminal justice system works as intended MORE, sources familiar with the situation told CNN.
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