JEFF SESSIONS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A lawyer for Attorney General Jeff Sessions defended on Monday [9-10-18] his client’s congressional testimony about a Trump campaign meeting in March 2016 where an adviser proposed that the candidate meet with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia. The aide, George Papadopoulos, said recently in an interview and court filings that Mr. Sessions, an early and influential adviser to Mr. Trump’s campaign, welcomed the idea. His description of the meeting contradicted accounts by Mr. Sessions and another foreign policy adviser in the room, J. D. Gordon. A lawyer for Mr. Sessions, Chuck Cooper, said in a statement on Monday that his client ‘has publicly testified under oath about his recollection of this meeting, and he stands by his testimony.’ A Justice Department spokeswoman declined to comment. The conflicting accounts pit Mr. Sessions, who has repeatedly recalibrated his recollections of any campaign contact with Russians, against Mr. Papadopoulos, who was sentenced last week to two weeks in jail for lying to investigators in the Russia inquiry.”
–Katie Benner, “Sessions’s Lawyer Defends His Account of Trump Campaign Meeting, “The New York Times online, September 11, 2018