Trump personally met with Russian ambassador during campaign - ThinkProgress [View all]

[Bill USA]

... if this was posted before, I completely missed it. Maybe others did too.....


[font size="3"]Trump has repeatedly denied meeting with any Russian officials as a candidate[/font]

https://thinkprogress.org/trump-personally-met-with-russian-ambassador-during-campaign-cc59ae305032

Donald Trump has claimed repeatedly that he has had no contact with Russian officials as a presidential candidate.

He was lying.

Trump personally met with the Russian ambassador on April 27, 2016, prior to a major foreign policy speech. The Wall Street Journal, in a report that was little-noticed at the time but was recently picked up by AMERICABlog News, reported the meeting last year.

A few minutes before he made those remarks, Mr. Trump met at a VIP reception with Russia’s ambassador to the U.S., Sergey Ivanovich Kislyak. Mr. Trump warmly greeted Mr. Kislyak and three other foreign ambassadors who came to the reception.

Kislyak, according to multiple contemporaneous news reports, was seated in the front row. It was an invitation-only event.
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