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applegrove

(119,395 posts)
Fri Mar 3, 2017, 08:48 PM Mar 2017

It looks like another Trump adviser has significantly changed his story about the GOP's dramatic [View all]

shift on Ukraine

http://www.businessinsider.de/jd-gordon-trump-adviser-ukraine-rnc-2017-3?r=US&IR=T

Natasha Bertrand, Business Insider

"SNIP............


Diana Denman, the GOP delegate who proposed amending the Ukraine platform to include the "lethal weapons" language, contradicted Gordon's version of events in an interview with Business Insider in January. She said Gordon and another Trump campaign representative asked the cochairmen of the subcommittee to table the amendment after she read it aloud.

"Two men sitting over to the side of the room — I had no idea who they were but later found out they were Trump representatives — jumped up and tore over to get behind the three cochairmen," she said.

Gordon then left the room to make a phone call, Denman said. Equal parts confused and angry over her proposal being scuttled, Denman said she confronted Gordon about whom he was calling.

"I'm calling New York," Gordon replied, according to Denman.

"I work for Mr. Trump, and I have to clear it," she recalled him saying, apparently in reference to the amendment.


..............SNIP"

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