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Shep Smith explodes over Russian meeting: 'The deception... is mind-boggling!
Shepard Smith decried the lies he said were coming from the Trump administration about a meeting with a Russian lawyer during the election in June 2016. (Image Source: YouTube screenshot.)

Shep Smith explodes over Russian meeting: 'The deception... is mind-boggling!

Shepard Smith blew up at the Trump administration during his show when another revelation about the Russian meeting in June 2016 broke into the headlines, apparently contradicting Donald Trump Jr.'s that the whole story was out. He made the comments Friday on Fox News while speaking with Chris Wallace.

"The emails, well in fact, this was supposed to be," Wallace said, "and what the Trump folks took the meeting to accomplish was the Russian government trying to give information about Hillary Clinton as part of an effort to swing the election to Donald Trump. So, you know you're exactly right, we've been told a variety of stories. We've gotten - and who knows if we've even gotten to the end of the story, we've only got to the end of the story with the emails."

"I know that we haven't," Smith said, "I know that we haven't because there's news breaking at this moment, Chris."

"Fox News can now confirm," Smith said dramatically turning to the camera. "New, more, Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner, Paul Manafort, the lawyer from Russia, the interpreter, this new guy we found about today, and a mystery person. John Roberts confirms there was an eighth person in that meeting."

"We don't know there may have been more but there was an eighth," he added.

"Jared Kushner filled out his form, I think it's an F-86," Smith explained, "saying who he had met with and what he'd done. Very important stuff, you can go to prison for messing it up, y'know, intentionally."

"He went back and added one hundred names and places," he continued. "None of these people made it. They - we're still not clean on this, Chris, if there's nothing there, and that's what they tell us, they tell us there's nothing to this, nothing came of it, there's a nothing-burger, it wasn't memorable, didn't write it down, didn't tell ya about it because it wasn't anything so I didn't even remember it!"

"With a Russian interpreter in the room at Trump Tower," he added sarcastically.

"If all of that, why all these lies?" Smith demanded. "Why is it lie after lie after lie? If you're clean, come on clean! Y'know?"

"My grandmother used to say, 'Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive,'" he said, paraphrasing a Shakespeare verse.

"The deception, Chris, is mind-boggling!" He exclaimed. "And there are still people out there who believe we're making it up. And one day they're gonna realize we're not, and look around and go, where are we and why are we getting told all these lies."

"You know, I don't know what to say," Wallace responded, almost speechless. I think there's a lot of truth to everything that you've said."

On Friday it was discovered that the meeting in June 2016 with Trump Jr. and other Trump associates with a Russian lawyer also included a Russian-born lobbyist who is said to have had counter-intelligence experience in Russia, and two unidentified persons. Critics have taken this to show that Trump Jr. had not being completely upfront about all the details of the controversial meeting.

President Trump said that he was proud of the transparency of his son for divulging the emails about the meeting.

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