One of President Donald Trump’s private attorneys representing him in the Russia investigation previously said Trump had nothing to do with a statement his son Donald Trump Jr. released to answer questions about a 2016 campaign-trail meeting he had with a Kremlin-linked Russian lawyer.
According to a Washington Post report published Monday, the president was actually behind the adoption statement, which was quickly found to be misleading.
Jay Sekulow told news outlets earlier this month that the president “didn’t sign off on anything” and “wasn’t involved” in drafting the first statement Trump Jr. used to defend his meeting with the Russian lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya. The initial statement said only that the meeting centered on Russian adoptions.
It was revealed in the days after that statement, however, that Trump Jr. accepted the meeting on the premise that he would receive damaging information about Hillary Clinton that an email suggested was “part of Russia and its government’s support for Mr. Trump.”
Watch footage of Sekulow denying Trump’s involvement below: