Article snippet: Posted at 8:30 pm on July 31, 2017 by Joe Cunningham Just as the dust had begun to settle on the Russian meeting scandal – where Donald Trump Jr. was forced to admit he did meet with a Russian lawyer during the campaign – the Washington Post has a new story out this evening that does not look good for President Donald Trump. One of the more controversial aspects of the original story was that Trump Jr. claimed the meeting was about a Russian child adoption program. Later news reports proved that Jr.’s statement was misleading at best. The Post’s story now puts blame of the misleading statement squarely on the shoulders of the President himself. For a story which was actually much more a story of unethical practices than law-breaking ones, the President seems to have weighed the two options – tell the truth or lie – and come to the conclusion that another lie wouldn’t hurt. This is especially vexing, given that the administration leaks like an old boat with termite damage. After all, where do you think tonight’s story came from? To be clear, this is yet another story which in no way proves something illegal happened. It is, however, a story that shows that honesty and integrity are nowhere near the aims of the President’s moral code. Let’s be honest: the media will have a field day over this story, which is based on anonymous sources and could very well be a misinterpretation of something else. But, given how the story originally played out, with more and more... Link to the full article to read more