I believe their modus operandis is to always deny first and give an 'alternative fact' later, if people discover. As I have mentioned, Trump Jr. changed what he had said to the Russians four times (!) in less than 5 days. Pretty much like "no I did not" to "yes but I did not tell daddy". So yes he did travel all the way to Russia, meets with a lot of people to whom he shouldn't even be talking to and when The New York Times asked him what were his comments, as they were going to run his emails on the following day, he goes ahead and displays everything as if he had done it because he is so honest. He knew the paper was going to write about him, so jumped in and tried to change his story.
It's impressive how Trump's supporters had immediately said that at least he had the courage of divulging all emails. No, it was not courage, and no wasn't going to! He simply knew that it was going to be in the papers on the following day so he tried to take advantage of the situation and did it poorly, changing the history every minute. Why didn't he inform that when they were asked to. And to think that Trump had made all that noise about everyone being paranoid and all the news making fake news about him and Russia. So hypocrite. Lies, lies, and deception.