Jeffrey Lord: Democrats meeting with DREAMers same as Trump Jr. meeting with Russia

Lord: “They are foreign nationals...every Democrat out there has had these kind of meetings.”

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From the July 17 edition of CNN's Anderson Cooper 360:

JEFFREY LORD: In doing some research today, I found something very interesting. There is a website called LawNewz, which is part of Dan Abrams' --

ANDERSON COOPER (HOST): Mediaite

JEFFREY LORD:  Right. And the headline from a lawyer over there who's a constitutional [lawyer], his name is Robert Barnes, he's a constitutional criminal and civil rights lawyer. The headline  says, “If Trump Jr. is guilty, so is every Democrat who takes information from DREAMers.” And he goes on to use the phrase that –

CHRISTINIE QUINN: You mean like DREAMers the students?

LORD: Correct, correct, because they are –

QUINN: Oh, that’s ridiculous.

LORD: Because they are, in the words of the FBI director that we just saw, “non-state actors.”

QUINN: Oh that is aburd.

LORD: They are foreign nationals, and every Democrat out there –

QUINN: Oh Jeffrey, that’s offensive, you need to stop, that’s ridiculous and offendive.

LORD: They are non-state actors.

QUINN: That is asinine.

LORD: They are not American citizens, that’s the charge here.

QUINN: Oh please, please, this is yet a new and offensive spin from Trump attacking immigrants.

LORD: This guy to the best of my knowledge has no connection with Donald Trump. My point is his point is a very serious one that every Democrat out there has had these kind of meetings.

Previously:

To right-wing media, Donald Trump Jr.'s meeting with a Kremlin-connected lawyer is a “nothingburger”

Reporter debunks right-wing attempts to use his article to peddle a Ukrainian collusion narrative

Fox's Shepard Smith slams Trump lies over Russia meeting: The deception “is mind boggling”