Opinion: Donald Trump Jr. is acting like a guilty man
By Paul Waldman Paul Waldman Opinion writer covering politics Email Bio Follow Opinion writer May 9 at 12:32 PM Donald Trump Jr. has so far not been indicted for his actions in 2016, apparently because prosecutors decided he was too stupid to pull off an actual conspiracy with Russia to aid in their efforts to get his father elected president .
The subpoena is not new; it was issued at least a week ago, people familiar with the matter said. But a person close to Trump Jr. argued that no lawyer would allow him to go back to the panel for open-ended questioning. Not that there aren’t some circumstances in which even an innocent person wouldn’t want to answer questions. But Donald Trump Jr. isn’t some poor 16-year-old kid the cops are trying to coerce into making a false confession to robbing a liquor store. He’s a grown man with a team of high-priced lawyers who doesn’t want to face questions from the members of a congressional committee, half of whom have pledged their political loyalty to his father.
We know already that Don Jr. lied to the public about the infamous June 2016 meeting at Trump Tower that he attended in the eager expectation of receiving damaging information on Hillary Clinton supplied by the Russian government. The question is whether he also lied to the Intelligence Committee about it, which would be a crime. One outstanding unknown is whether he told his father about the meeting before it occurred.
Then the meeting turned out to be a bust, and the “major speech” about “all of the things that have taken place with the Clintons” never occurred.
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