Mr Trump Jr released e-mails last month that showed he eagerly agreed previous year to meet a woman he was told was a Russian government lawyer who might have damaging information about Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton as part of Moscow's official support for his father. The younger Trump also called on Paul Manafort, the overall manager of candidate Trump's campaign at the time, and Jared Kushner, Trump's son-in-law and a close adviser, to join the meeting in NY with Veselnitskaya and her Russian associates.
"The statement that was issued was true", Sanders said, "and there were no inaccuracies".
"The president weighed in as any father would based on the limited information that he had".
"He certainly didn't dictate", she added when pressed further on the issue, "but he weighed in, offering suggestions, like any father would do". Trump Jr. responded with a statement claiming the meeting was "primarily" about adoption and its relation to USA sanctions on Russian Federation under the Magnitsky Act.
The Post said the president dictated the statement to his son while on a flight home from the G20 summit in Germany.
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It later emerged that during that fateful June 2016 meeting, Trump's eldest son, his son-in-law Jared Kushner and then campaign manager Paul Manafort met with a Russian government attorney who an intermediary claimed had incriminating information about Trump's rival Hillary Clinton.
"It wasn't a directive", Sanders said of the president's comments. "There was no follow-up".
The Post, citing multiple people with knowledge of the situation, said the original plan in response to the Times' reporting was to issue a truthful statement ahead of the story, but then Trump personally made a decision to have the statement say Trump Jr. had met with the lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya, to discuss adoption of Russian children by people in the US. "It was a disclosed to the proper parties", she said. The story was later confirmed by ABC News.
"The Democrats want to continue to use this as a [public relations] stunt", the White House press secretary said, "and they're doing everything they can to keep this story alive and in the papers every single day".
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