Trump Jr. lashes out over 'nonsense meeting' with Russian lawyer

[DonViejo]

Source: Politico


By DIAMOND NAGA SIU 07/11/2017 09:24 AM EDT

Donald Trump Jr. on Tuesday morning lashed out at the furor over his contact with a Russian lawyer during the height of the campaign, calling it a "nonsense meeting."

“Media & Dems are extremely invested in the Russia story,” he wrote. “If this nonsense meeting is all they have after a yr, I understand the desperation!”

Trump Jr. recently came under fire after the New York Times revealed the June 2016 meeting, in which the Kremlin-linked lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya, allegedly pledged to share damaging information about Hillary Clinton. He has denied any wrongdoing and has defended himself via Twitter multiple times since the story broke Saturday. However, his explanation about the circumstances of the meeting shifted over the weekend.

Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), the lead Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, said on "Morning Joe" on Tuesday that Trump Jr.'s various narratives about the meeting “does not inspire a lot of confidence” in his statements.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2017/07/11/donald-trump-jr-responds-russia-lawyer-240396

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Trump Jr.: Media Must Be Desperate If Meeting Is All They Have After A Year

By NICOLE LAFOND Published JULY 11, 2017 9:23 AM

Donald Trump Jr. took to Twitter Tuesday morning to slam the media for being “extremely invested” in the story of his father’s campaign potentially colluding with Russia to influence the 2016 election, following news that Trump Jr. met with a Kremlin-linked lawyer last year on the premises of getting information that would be helpful to the campaign.

Trump Jr., White House adviser Jared Kushner and then-campaign manager Paul Manafort met with Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya at Trump Tower not long after President Donald Trump secured the Republican nomination. The lawyer has since denied that she told Trump Jr. that she had promised compromising information on Hillary Clinton.

The President’s son attacked the media two days after the news broke, saying the press must be desperate to cover the Russia story if “this nonsense meeting is all they have” after a year.

Link to tweet

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http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/trump-jr-media-must-be-desperate-if-meeting-all-have

[GusBob]

1. Oh you poor stupid little jit! Maybe you should have been truthful

Didn't your parents teach you......oh never mind.

A congressional committee is going to wipe the floor with this fool. he is way out of his league

[ashredux]

2. He will take the 5th

[iluvtennis]

9. And like his father, Jr not taking advice of his lawyer to STFU.

[underpants]

3. invested ..... Russia

Dumbass links the basis of the whole thing in his own tweet.

[Freethinker65]

4. Please proceed, Junior

[KRISITNA]

5. All of 45s grandkids are going to be forced to visit their fathers in prison

[NastyRiffraff]

6. I guess his new lawyer can't control him

Just like his father. Any lawyer worth his or her salt would tell him to STFU, now.

Keep tweeting, Junior!

[TryLogic]

7. The Trumps may be learning that activities common in the world of business are illegal ...

Activities common in the world of business are illegal in government and in situations where ethics play a role. I have often said that Republicans don't know the difference between a government and a business.

[ButSeeYa]

8. So, his defense is something like

I tried to rob a bank. Didn't get any money. What's the problem??

[murielm99]

10. He hasn't begun to understand desperation.

[True_Blue]

11. The rotten apple doesn't fall far from the rotten tree.