{"id":1602,"date":"2017-07-11T03:08:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-11T03:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/democrats.org\/blog\/2017\/07\/11\/dnc-statement-on-donald-trump-jr\/"},"modified":"2024-05-23T20:19:09","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T20:19:09","slug":"dnc-statement-on-donald-trump-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/dnc-statement-on-donald-trump-jr\/","title":{"rendered":"DNC Statement on Donald Trump Jr."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In response to tonight&rsquo;s&nbsp;<a data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/07\/10\/us\/politics\/donald-trump-jr-russia-email-candidacy.html?hp%26action%3Dclick%26pgtype%3DHomepage%26clickSource%3Dstory-heading%26module%3Dspan-ab-top-region%26region%3Dtop-news%26WT.nav%3Dtop-news&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1499979743334000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFoEXlLKDFfSQeM5TRKKRrWFYQ4jw\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/07\/10\/us\/politics\/donald-trump-jr-russia-email-candidacy.html?hp&amp;action=click&amp;pgtype=Homepage&amp;clickSource=story-heading&amp;module=span-ab-top-region&amp;region=top-news&amp;WT.nav=top-news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">report<\/a>&nbsp;that&nbsp;Donald&nbsp;Trump&nbsp;Jr. was told that the Russian government was behind an effort to provide damaging information about Hillary Clinton and help his father&rsquo;s campaign,&nbsp;DNC&nbsp;deputy communications director Adrienne Watson issued the following&nbsp;statement:<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This isn&rsquo;t just smoke anymore.&nbsp;Donald&nbsp;Jr. was willing to accept the help of a hostile foreign government to sway the election. In the ensuing months, the&nbsp;Trump&nbsp;family watched as news of the Kremlin&rsquo;s hacking campaign developed and they did nothing but celebrate and encourage it to continue.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It is time for&nbsp;Donald&nbsp;Trump, his family, and his team to stop lying and come clean about their contacts with Russia, what they knew about the Kremlin&rsquo;s effort to help them, and when they knew it.&rdquo;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In response to tonight&rsquo;s&nbsp;report&nbsp;that&nbsp;Donald&nbsp;Trump&nbsp;Jr. was told that the Russian government was behind an effort to provide damaging information about Hillary Clinton and help his father&rsquo;s campaign,&nbsp;DNC&nbsp;deputy communications director Adrienne Watson issued the following&nbsp;statement: &ldquo;This isn&rsquo;t just smoke anymore.&nbsp;Donald&nbsp;Jr. was willing to accept the help of a hostile foreign government to sway the election. In the <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>DNC Statement on Donald Trump Jr. - Democrats<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/dnc-statement-on-donald-trump-jr\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Democrats\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2017-07-11T03:08:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-05-23T20:19:09+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Claire DePree\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Claire DePree\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/dnc-statement-on-donald-trump-jr\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/dnc-statement-on-donald-trump-jr\/\",\"name\":\"DNC Statement on Donald Trump Jr. - 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