Trumplandia: Serious Legal Jeopardy Looms With Confirmation That Trump DID Plan Strategy For Handling Don Jr Meeting Reveal

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Based on Tuesday's acknowledgement by White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, it seems that there's lot of truth in the Washington Post's new assertion that the president was deeply involved in writing the particulars of a statement about his son Donald Trump Jr's meeting with a Kremlin-connected lawyer  “primarily discussed a program about the adoption of Russian children”.

Trump's involvement in planning the strategy on how to handle the media on the breaking story was vehemently denied on all five Sunday news shows, by one of his attorneys Jay Sekulow.

Misleading the public or the news media is not a crime, but advisers to Trump and his family told The Washington Post that they fear any factual information that suggests the president is seeking to hide information about interactions between his campaign and Russians almost inevitably will draw additional scrutiny from special counsel Robert Mueller III.

In spite of hiring an expanding roster of lawyers, Trump, is increasingly acting as his own lawyer, strategist and publicist, often disregarding the recommendations of the professionals he has hired, reports multiple sources to WaPo.

“He refuses to sit still,” the presidential adviser said. “He doesn’t think he’s in any legal jeopardy, so he really views this as a political problem he is going to solve by himself.” In his own eyes, he is innocent of any wrongdoing so his actions can't possibly boomerang against him. 

Trump has said that the Russia investigation is “the greatest witch hunt in political history,” calling it an elaborate hoax created by Democrats to explain why Clinton lost an election she should have won.

Secret Service Debunks Trump Lawyer Jay Sekulow's Lie That They Should Have Vetted Trump Jr. Russians Meeting

In the blithering nonsense that rolls from tongues in Trumplandia, President Trump's personal lawyer had a new argument on the ever-changing Donald Trump Jr. meeting with the Russians, one he expressed on his marathon-man appearances on all five Sunday news talk shows.

Trump's lawyer Jay Sekulow argued that it was the fault of the US Secret Service that Donald Trump's Jr.'s mishap meeting happened in the first place -- b-e-c-a-u-s-e it was the responsibility of the Secret Service to vet the meeting with Russians at Trump Tower. Game over. 

The Secret Service quickly shot down the assertion, much as the Dept. of Homeland Security slammed Trump's assertion that former Attorney General Loretta Lynch had personally issued the US visa to Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya.

“Donald Trump, Jr. was not a protectee of the USSS in June, 2016. Thus we would not have screened anyone he was meeting with at that time,” Secret Service spokesman Mason Brayman said in a statement.

After the inauguration, Trump's kids do indeed have Secret Service protection, as they do Trump family deals all over the world. But there was none during the 2016 presidential campaign. 

Handmaids News: Digesting Cardinal George Pell Sex Abuse Charges, Vatican Reels Over Msgr. Luigi Capozzi's Gay Sex Orgy

It's been a rough couple of weeks at the Vatican, and Pope Francis is not amused. The Daily Beast reveals the latest scandal, one in which the Vatican's Swiss Guards were called to "break up a drug-fueled gay orgy in Pope Francis' backyard'.  Last week's blockbuster found Australian Cardinal George Pell, the Vatican's de facto finance chief, according to the New York Times, charged with sexual assault. Pell is due in court in Melbourne, Australia on July 18. He has testified previously before Australia's Royal Commission Into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse about charges that he "had sexually abused minors himself beginning early in his priesthood and continuing until he became archbishop of Melbourne." Cardinal Pell insists that he's innocent of all charges and will return to Australia, as soon as possible, to clear his name following advice and approval by his doctors who will also advise on his travel arrangements,” according to a statement issued by the Archdiocese of Sydney. 

With Rome reeling from the Pell charges, the Vatican's Swiss Guards were called to a ruckus in the so-called Ex Sant'Uffizio Palace, owned by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, charged with investigating charges of clerical sex abuse within the church, and formerly occupied by Joseph Ratzinger, aka Pope Benedict XVI. Countless high-ranking cardinals live in the palatial building, whose 'Ratzinger' quarters had been given to Monsignor Luigi Capozzi, the secretary for Cardinal Francesco Coccopalmerio, who heads the Vatican’s Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts, charged with deciphering and clarifying various points of canon law. 

When the Swiss Guards showed up, an orgy was in progress, with numerous naked men allegedly writhing around the floor with Capozzi and his guests, apparently under the influence of hard drugs according to the Italian newspaper Il Fatto Quotidiano which broke the story.

Catholic Culture confirms that indeed the event did occur, noting as well that it's not clear how Msgr. Capozzi landed an apartment there, a plum not normally accorded to his rank. 

Msgr. Capozzi had access to a car with Vatican license plates: again a sign that he had influential friends. Those license plates made him virtually exempt from searches by the Italian police, and could have facilitated the transportation of illegal drugs. The location of his residence—in a building with one door leading onto Vatican territory, the other onto the streets of Rome—was also ideal for someone avoiding police oversight.