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{UAH} Ocen//Carry your own cross, Secret Service tells Team Trump

Folks;

As the extent of their collusion with Russia continues to widen and deepen, Team Trump has thrown all sorts of theories to divert attention elsewhere. Their latest defense is that if the Russian lawyer was that bad, how could the Secret Service have cleared her to meet with the president son, Donald Jr.

The response, from the Secret Service, is succinct and biting: Donald Jr. was not under the protection of the Secret Service, and therefore, the Service had no business vetting whomever he desired to meet.

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The U.S. Secret Service pushed back on an assertion one of President Donald Trump's lawyers made today on ABC News' "This Week" that the agency should have prevented Russians from meeting last year with the president's eldest son.
"I wonder why the Secret Service, if this was nefarious, why the Secret Service allowed these people in," attorney Jay Sekulow said this morning of the meeting Donald Trump Jr. arranged with a Russian lawyer during the 2016 campaign. "The president had Secret Service protection at that point, and that raised a question with me."
But the Secret Service rejected Sekulow's comment in a statement to ABC News.
"Donald Trump Jr. was not under Secret Service protection in June 2016," according to the statement. "Thus we would not have screened anyone he was meeting with at that time."
The president had Secret Service protection but it would not have included vetting people who met with members of his campaign staff.
Donald Trump Jr. released emails last week revealing that he had arranged to meet with a Russian lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya, with the hopes of receiving potentially damning information about Trump's election rival, Hillary Clinton.
The meeting came under additional scrutiny Friday with the revelation that additional people with connections to the Russia government attended the meeting, including a long-time lobbyist.
Sekulow's comment about the Secret Service was met with criticism on Twitter today, including from Frances Townsend, the former homeland security adviser to President George W. Bush, and Richard W. Painter, Bush's ethics lawyer.

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