Showing posts with label Gordon. Show all posts
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Saturday, March 4, 2017

Trump said no one from his campaign met with Russia, but at least four people did

President Donald Trump, Vice President Mike Pence, and White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus have for months claimed that no one from the Trump campaign had communications with Vladimir Putin's regime in Russia. It is now clear that these claims were false....
https://thinkprogress.org/trump-lied-about-campaign-russian-contacts-9a3e8e464f63#.ub60qfca8


RNC Delegate Knocks Trump Ally Who Confirmed He Altered Platform On Ukraine (TPM)

Until Thursday, the Trump campaign team's official line was that it played no role in softening language regarding Ukraine in the GOP platform during the Republican National Convention last summer in Cleveland.

But then J.D. Gordon, the Trump campaign's national security policy representative at the RNC, told CNN that he had personally advocated for altering an amendment on Ukraine, providing vindication to the Republican delegate who initially proposed it. ...
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/diana-denman-jd-gordon-gop-ukraine-platform

Trump Ally Drastically Changes Story About Altering GOP Platform On Ukraine

In a significant reversal, a Trump campaign official on Thursday told CNN that he personally advocated for softening the language on Ukraine in the GOP platform at the Republican National Convention, and that he did so on behalf of the President.

CNN’s Jim Acosta reported on air that J.D. Gordon, the Trump campaign’s national security policy representative at the RNC, told him that he made the change to include language that he claimed “Donald Trump himself wanted and advocated for” at a March 2016 meeting at then-unfinished Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C....
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/jd-gordon-change-story-gop-platform-ukraine-amendment









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