“This was a meeting to get information on an opponent, totally legal and done all the time in politics - and it went nowhere,” Trump said of Donald Trump Jr.’s meeting in Trump Tower with a Kremlin-linked attorney in June 2016.
Trump’s tweet follows recent reports that he is worried about possible legal trouble for his eldest son.
Fake News reporting, a complete fabrication, that I am concerned about the meeting my wonderful son, Donald, had in Trump Tower.
This was a meeting to get information on an opponent, totally legal and done all the time in politics - and it went nowhere.
A day later, he admitted that he’d agreed to sit down with Veselnitskaya after being offered dirt on his father’s political opponent, Hillary Clinton.
The Times reported last July that Trump signed off on his son’s first response about the meeting.
Leah Millis / Reuters President Donald Trump is seen before boarding Air Force One to Ohio at the Morristown Airport in Morristown, NJ, on Saturday. »