US President Donald Trump declared Wednesday that his eldest son was “open, transparent and innocent,” a day after Donald Trump Jr revealed his eagerness to hear damaging information about Hillary Clinton from the Russian government in a meeting last year with an attorney from Moscow. Defending his son’s conduct, the president again dismissed the ongoing Russia investigation as the “greatest Witch Hunt in political history.” Trump responded after Donald Trump Jr disclosed a series of emails on Tuesday that marked the clearest sign to date that Trump’s campaign was willing to consider election help from a longtime US adversary. Trump Jr released a series of emails on Tuesday that revealed he had eagerly agreed to meet a woman he was told was a Russian government lawyer who might have damaging information about Democratic rival Hillary Clinton as part of Moscow’s official support for his father. The email exchange posted to Twitter by Donald Trump Jr showed him conversing with a music publicist who wanted him to meet with a “Russian government attorney” who supposedly had dirt on Clinton as “part of Russia and its government’s support for Trump.” The messages reveal that Trump Jr was told the Russian government had information that could “incriminate” Clinton and her dealings with Russia. Trump Jr said the meeting “really went nowhere” and that he never told his father about it because there was “nothing to tell.”Clinton’s vice presidential running mate, Senator Tim Kaine, described the revelations as “potentially treason,” though experts downplayed the charge.

Source: Dhaka Tribune July 12, 2017 18:22 UTC