Secret Service responds to Trump lawyer: Russian lawyer meeting not screened
By Julia Manchester - 07/16/17 03:46 PM EDT
The Secret Service responded on Sunday to President Trump’s personal lawyer Jay Sekulow’s claim that Donald Trump Jr.’s meeting with a Russian lawyer during the campaign would not have happened if the Secret Service had considered it “nefarious.”
“If this was nefarious, why'd the Secret Service allow these people in?” Sekulow asked on ABC’s “This Week.”
"The president had Secret Service protection at that point," he said. "That raised a question with me.”
However, that protection did not extend to Trump Jr. at the time, according to the Secret Service.
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