Trump Goes All In on the 'Collusion Is Normal' Defense
Donald Trump once promised voters he wasn’t a politician. Now he’s defending his campaign by saying it acted like every other politician.
by David A. Graham
Jul 17, 2017
4 minutes
After months of adamantly denying that investigators would find even a shred of evidence pointing to collusion between his campaign and Russia, President Donald Trump is aggressively embracing the view that his son’s cooperation with apparent Russian agents was entirely normal. On Monday, he acknowledged that his son, Donald Trump Jr., met with a Russian lawyer in the hopes of receiving damaging information about Hillary Clinton:
Most politicians would have gone to a meeting like the one Don jr attended in order to get info on an opponent. That's politics!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 17, 2017
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