Donald Trump: “This was a meeting to get information on an opponent. Totally legal…”

On the recordAugust 5, 2018

This was a meeting to get information on an opponent. Totally legal and done all the time in politics, and it went nowhere. I did not know about it.

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Donald Trump defends the Trump Tower meeting as legal and asserts he was unaware of it.

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