White House defends president’s effort to help write Trump Jr. statement

Source: The Hill | August 1, 2017 | Jordan Fabian

The White House on Tuesday defended President Trump’s decision to help write his eldest son’s statement about his election-year meeting with a Russian lawyer, calling it “something any father would do.”

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders disputed the fact that the statement to The New York Times contained inaccurate or misleading information, telling reporters it “is true.”

Her comments appeared to largely confirm a Washington Post report that the president was personally involved in drafting the statement, which could open him up to further legal scrutiny. 

But she appeared to deny that he dictated the statement to an assistant.

“He certainly didn’t dictate. But he weighed in, offered suggestions like any father would do,” she said.

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“Apart from being of no consequence, the characterizations are misinformed, inaccurate, and not pertinent,” attorney Jay Sekulow said Monday in a statement to the Post. 

In a July 16 interview with NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Sekulow said that “the president was not involved in the drafting of the statement and did not issue the statement.”

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