[WBA-Josh]

Donald Trump has unintentionally thrown his son under the bus. Over the weekend he tweeted that Don Junior met with the Russian Natalia Veselnitskaya in 2016 to get information about Hillary Clinton from Russia. The meeting itself is very iffy legality wise.

Getting opposition research is fine, getting opposition research from a foreign country is not legal. If any information was passed over or an agreement was made for the future release of Clinton info (that would bring in Wikileaks and Julian Assange) then Junior and Kushner are in some legal jeopardy. It could even bring Trump into it if he gave the go-ahead for the meeting or was told after the meeting.

There is also Junior’s testimony to Congress. During it he said that his Dad didn’t know about the Russia meeting. If Mueller can corroborate Cohen’s claim that Trump did know about it when it happened, then Junior can be done for lying to Congress, which has a 5 year prison sentence, in addition to perjury.

As for the meeting, they always said that it was about adoption. That was always clearly bullshit but now Trump has proven that it was bullshit. I look forward to seeing his supporters try to defend it going forward.