Updated at 8:03 a.m. ET
It was a tweet that set off a storm. Was President Trump admitting to collusion between his campaign and Russia? Was he stipulating that the now notorious June 2016 Trump Tower meeting arranged by his son Donald Trump Jr. really was all about getting dirt on Hillary Clinton from a Kremlin-linked Russian lawyer and not adoption issues as President Trump had earlier claimed?
“This was a meeting to get information on an opponent, totally legal and done all the time in politics – and it went nowhere,” the president tweeted early Sunday.
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