“This is not normal,” MSNBC chief legal correspondent and ‘The Beat’ host Ari Melber said on Thursday after Donald Trump‘s Russia lawyer was busted for crashing the top-secret FBI informant meeting on Capitol Hill.
Not only did Trump criminal defense lawyer Emmet Flood attend the meeting – which he shouldn’t have – but Melber presented evidence that the White House tried to cover it up.
“This inappropriate meddling into the probe is actually so incriminating, the White House sought to hide it from ever being public,” the MSNBC host said.
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Melber was beside himself about the new development:
A new line crossed as the Trump administration’s controversial classified meeting on the Russia probe got even worse, because reporters caught Donald Trump‘s criminal defense attorney for the probe sneaking into the meeting. Let me tell you right up front, this is not normal. This is a breach. And tonight the White House is rushing out a spin that this breach was actually some kind of legitimate move and planned all along. That is false. This inappropriate meddling into the probe is actually so incriminating, the White House sought to hide it from ever being public. Let me show you exactly why we know that. Because of this evidence. It’s simple evidence right here. An unusual press release that the DOJ released 10:00 P.M. last night, and it states first, a second meeting was added with the gang of eight intelligence leaders, and second, this thing lists all the attendees. So it states who was supposed to go to this very formal, very important classified meeting. But today the Trump administration was busted and that makes the list untrue because it’s missing the one person who has no business being at this internal classified gang of eight meeting, but who was spotted entering the meeting right there, you see, the evidence. That’s Donald Trump‘s Russia attorney, Emmet Flood.
This is another effort by Trump to obstruct the Russia investigation
As Ari Melber noted on Thursday, this is another clear effort by the White House to meddle in the Russia investigation.
Even Rudy Giuliani, Trump‘s bumbling TV lawyer, admitted that the goal of sneaking the president’s criminal defense attorney into this sensitive meeting was “to see how the briefing went” so they could decide whether Trump will sit down for an interview with special counsel Robert Mueller.
As The Daily Beast pointed out a short time ago, “Flood’s presence fueled the perception that the White House was trying to monitor the investigation into the Trump campaign.”
The evidence of Trump obstruction was already solid. But in Thursday’s brazen attempt to meddle in the Russia probe, Robert Mueller was given another piece to add to his case.
Sean Colarossi currently resides in Cleveland, Ohio. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and was an organizing fellow for both of President Obama’s presidential campaigns. He also worked with Planned Parenthood as an Affordable Care Act Outreach Organizer in 2014, helping northeast Ohio residents obtain health insurance coverage.
