Breaking News: Trump helped come up with misleading statement on Jr.'s meeting

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had met with the lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya, to discuss adoption of Russian children by people in the US. The Post reports that Trump dictated the statement while flying back to Washington from the G20 summit in Hamburg, aboard Air Force One. Wapo: Trump dictated initial misleading response to son's mtg One of Trump's advisers told the Post that Trump's move was "unnecessary" and warned that it opened Trump up to criticism that he was seeking to obfuscate the full truth about the meeting.Jay Sekulow, an attorney for the President, issued a statement, saying, "Apart from being of no consequence, the characterizations are misinformed, inaccurate, and not pertinent." Alan Futerfas, an attorney for Trump Jr., told the Post he had "no evidence" to support a theory about Trump's intervention in writing the statement and described the process of crafting it as "communal." CNN previously reported the involvement of White House aides in Trump Jr.'s response to the Times may have opened them up to more scrutiny from Mueller's probe. People briefed on the matter said some of Trump's aides helped craft the statement while in the air.