A Blow to Trump’s Cred: Junior’s Digging Expedition
THE ISSUE: President Trump’s admission that his son met with a Russian lawyer to get intel on Hillary Clinton.
President Trump has twisted himself into a pretzel (“Don: Yes, my son wanted dirt on Hill,” Aug 6).
The initial story was that the meeting between Donald Trump Jr. and a Russian lawyer centered on child adoptions. This quickly morphed into “legitimate research” on Clinton — along with insistence that Trump Sr. was totally unaware of such a meeting. This last claim has been contradicted by his former lawyer, Michael Cohen.
Knocked against the rope, the president then claimed “collusion” isn’t a crime. Caught with his sticky fingers in the cookie jar, he is now lashing out at the media. Jagjit Singh Los Altos, Calif.
Is there any question that the president is of questionable character? Let’s be honest here: If anything, Donald Jr. at least attempted collusion with a foreign government.
He went to the meeting with a Russian lawyer without any authority, or the approval of any US agency, with the purpose to win the election with the help of an adversarial foreign government. To what unethical, illegal or un-American lengths would the Trump campaign go to win?
As a registered Republican (a McCain Republican), I have been totally disgusted with Trump’s Republican Party. Michael Costagliola Monroe Township, NJ
The Post is very concerned about the meeting between Donald Jr and the Russian lawyer.
But don’t we have definitive proof that the Clinton campaign hired researchers who colluded with Russian sources to compile intel that was then used by our Justice Department to spy on Trump? Why aren’t the media interested in that? Matthew Toboroff Manhattan
Trump has said that his elder son’s meeting with the Russians to get dirt on his presidential opponent in 2016 was “totally legal.”
It wasn’t. He may be able to distort and twist other things and get away with it, but he can’t distort the law.
It is illegal to solicit or accept something of value (like information) from a foreign national as part of a presidential campaign.
Trump may have been able to get away with doing shady things as a businessman, but it is much more difficult to do it as a politician. Kenneth Zimmerman Huntington Beach