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The Note: The Trump emails heard round the world - ABC News

posted onJuly 13, 2017
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Article snippet: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW TODAY THE TAKE with ABC News' Rick Klein The space between "I love it" and "I probably would have done things a little differently" is room enough for Donald Trump Jr. to have blown a hole in a year's worth of representations put forward by the now-president and the team around him. It's enough to galvanize the special counsel's office and congressional investigations into Russian meddling and all that it appears to have triggered in the White House. It figures to dominate today's confirmation hearing for an FBI director nominee who was nowhere near the story but will have to grapple with the fallout inside the agency. President Trump is applauding his son's transparency. But it's transparency in a different sense that makes the already infamous email chain the single-most damning piece of evidence to emerge in the collusion probe. This was a see-right-through-it willingness, on the part of the president's son, to use damaging campaign information he was being told was being offered as "part of Russia and its government's support for Mr. Trump." Everything else in this investigation uses that as a baseline. This scandal has long been about what isn't known, about shoes that could still drop. But this, by itself, was a loud enough stomp to be heard for a long while. ENTER TRUMP'S PICK FOR FBI DIRECTOR Chris Wray was nominated to lead the FBI without fanfare. No Rose Garden ceremony or even a speech from the president. Th... Link to the full article to read more

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