Updated 8/6/2018 12:18 PM PDT
1/ Trump admitted that the 2016 Trump Tower meeting between top campaign aides and a Russian lawyer was to get dirt on Hillary Clinton. "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!" Trump's tweet contradicted Trump Jr.'s original statement about the meeting – which was dictated by Trump – that the the meeting was to discuss the adoption of Russian children. (New York Times / New Yorker / NBC News / NPR)
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/2018/08/06/day-564/