{"id":317556,"date":"2017-07-16T04:31:53","date_gmt":"2017-07-16T03:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/slow-leak-of-russia-news-flooding-white-house\/"},"modified":"2017-07-16T04:31:53","modified_gmt":"2017-07-16T03:31:53","slug":"slow-leak-of-russia-news-flooding-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/slow-leak-of-russia-news-flooding-white-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Slow leak of Russia news flooding White House"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/wireStory\/analysis-slow-leak-russia-news-flooding-white-house-48654140\"><strong>AP<\/strong><\/a><br \/>July 15, 2017<\/p>\n<p><strong>As Air Force One flew home from Europe, news was set to break about a meeting that Donald Trump\u2019s eldest son had with a Kremlin-connected lawyer, promising yet another round of unwelcome headlines about the president and Russia. And that happened twice within a week.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The day-after-day drip-drip-drip of revelations over the past week about Donald Trump Jr.\u2019s contact with the Russian lawyer in 2016 underscores the White House\u2019s inability to shake off the Russia story and close the book on a narrative that casts a shadow over Trump\u2019s presidency. No matter how presidential Trump may have looked on his back-to-back trips to Europe in recent days, the persistent questions about connections between Trump\u2019s team and Russia prevent him from savoring a public relations victory and building momentum for his stalled legislative agenda.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo successful crisis management model works the way they are doing things,\u201d said Lanny Davis, who worked as special counsel to President Bill Clinton during his impeachment hearings. \u201cIf your mission is to control a story or try to end a story, you need to tell it early, tell it all and tell it yourself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump Jr.\u2019s account of his Trump Tower meeting has seemingly changed on an almost daily basis. At first, the meeting was said to be about a Russian adoption program. Then, it was to hear information about campaign rival Hillary Clinton. Finally, Trump Jr. was forced to release emails \u2014 mere moments before The New York Times planned to do so \u2014 that revealed he had told an associate that he would \u201clove\u201d Russia\u2019s help in obtaining negative details about the Democratic nominee.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/wireStory\/analysis-slow-leak-russia-news-flooding-white-house-48654140\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p>      <!-- END CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p style=\"color:#333; font-size:11px;\">This article was posted: Saturday, July 15, 2017  at  9:04 am<\/p>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/><!-- share and follow --><br \/>\n      <!-- end of share and follow --><\/p>\n<div class=\"print_sub\">\n<h3 class=\"sub_titles\">&#13;<br \/>\n        \t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/slow-leak-of-russia-news-flooding-white-house.html\/print\/\" title=\"Print\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"WP-PrintIcon\" src=\"https:\/\/hw.prisonplanet.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-print\/images\/printer_famfamfam.gif\" alt=\"Print\" title=\"Print\" style=\"border: 0px;\"\/><\/a><br \/>\nPrint this page.<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<p>        <!--\n      \n\n<div class=\"nextpage\">\n              <\/div>\n\n \n...\n<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/slow-leak-of-russia-news-flooding-white-house.html\">Read more<\/a>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>APJuly 15, 2017 As Air Force One flew home from Europe, news was set to break about a meeting that Donald Trump\u2019s eldest son had with a Kremlin-connected lawyer, promising yet another round of unwelcome headlines about the president and Russia. And that happened twice within a week. 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