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Trump’s Lawyer Just Came Up With A Creative Reason Why The Trump Jr.-Russia Meeting Was No Big Deal

Joshua Yasmeh

President Trump’s personal lawyer, Jay Sekulow, now appears to be blaming the United States Secret Service for Donald Trump Jr.’s meeting with Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya.

Resorting to verbal contortions to defend the seemingly indefensible, Sekulow, who also serves as Chief Counsel for the American Center for Law & Justice (ACLJ), made his rounds on the Sunday morning talk show circuit to reframe Trump Jr.’s infamous meeting in every way imaginable. In other words, he offered every defense at his disposal just to see what stuck. But his most absurd rhetorical offensive reared its head on ABC News’ This Week.

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