Secret Service Debunks Trump Lawyer Jay Sekulow's Lie That They Should Have Vetted Trump Jr. Russians Meeting

In the blithering nonsense that rolls from tongues in Trumplandia, President Trump's personal lawyer had a new argument on the ever-changing Donald Trump Jr. meeting with the Russians, one he expressed on his marathon-man appearances on all five Sunday news talk shows.

Trump's lawyer Jay Sekulow argued that it was the fault of the US Secret Service that Donald Trump's Jr.'s mishap meeting happened in the first place -- b-e-c-a-u-s-e it was the responsibility of the Secret Service to vet the meeting with Russians at Trump Tower. Game over. 

The Secret Service quickly shot down the assertion, much as the Dept. of Homeland Security slammed Trump's assertion that former Attorney General Loretta Lynch had personally issued the US visa to Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya.

“Donald Trump, Jr. was not a protectee of the USSS in June, 2016. Thus we would not have screened anyone he was meeting with at that time,” Secret Service spokesman Mason Brayman said in a statement.

After the inauguration, Trump's kids do indeed have Secret Service protection, as they do Trump family deals all over the world. But there was none during the 2016 presidential campaign.