At issue was Trump Jr.'s June 2016 embrace of an offer of dirt ostensibly coming from the Russian government. While Trump almost certainly didn’t spend much time exploring Mueller’s findings, he clearly understood where the problem was. When, on July 25, Trump told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that he wanted Ukraine to dig into a derogatory theory Trump had about former vice president Joe Biden, Trump may not have been explicitly considering the legal ramifications. What Trump is doing now “doesn’t have the same problems of valuation Mueller found with the June 2016 Trump meeting,” Noble wrote. “And the Trump campaign invited them to come,” Bauer added.

Source: Washington Post October 03, 2019 18:45 UTC