The following article by Maggie Haberman was posted on the New York Times website July 17, 2017:
WASHINGTON — He ran on a promise to end politics as usual.
But on Monday morning, President Trump posted a defense on Twitter of his son’s meeting with a Russian lawyer promising sensitive government information that could be damaging to Hillary Clinton by saying that it was simply politics as usual.
In Mr. Trump’s newest tweet about his eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., and a meeting on June 9, 2016, at Trump Tower, he described the gathering as routine and something almost anyone in politics would have wanted to attend. Continue reading “Trump Tweets ‘That’s Politics!’ About Son’s Meeting With Russian Lawyer”