President Donald Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani said the Trump team’s recollections about a statement made on an infamous Trump Tower meeting “keeps changing.”
“This is the reason you don’t let this president testify in the special counsel’s Russia investigation,” Giuliani told ABC News Chief Anchor George Stephanopoulos on “This Week” Sunday. “Our recollection keeps changing, or we’re not even asked a question and somebody makes an assumption.”
Giuliani was referring to Donald Trump Jr.’s initial statement last year about a meeting he had with a Russian lawyer during the presidential campaign.
President Trump personally dictated the first statement his son gave in response to reports of the June 2016 meeting at Trump Tower between Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner and Paul Manafort with a Russian lawyer and her associates, senior-level sources told ABC News in 2017.
The Washington Post was the first to report last July that the president dictated the statement that his son and Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya “primarily discussed a program about the adoption of Russian children” at the meeting.
The statement emphasized that the subject of the meeting was “not a campaign issue at the time,” the Post reported.
Trump Jr. later acknowledged that he took the meeting after being told that he would receive damaging information about Hillary Clinton at the meeting.
Reports that the president dictated his son’s initial statement were confirmed in a…
