Trump dictated son’s false story of meeting with Russian lawyer

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On Monday, the Washington Post reported that President Donald Trump dictated his son’s account of his meeting with a Russian lawyer, stepping into the planned response to the reports of the meeting.

“This was…unnecessary,” an anonymous source told the Post. “Now someone can claim he’s the one who attempted to mislead. Somebody can argue the president is saying he doesn’t want you to say the whole truth.”

–Donald Trump Jr. met with Russian lawyer over ‘damaging’ info about Clinton–

The report states that Donald Trump Jr. and the Trump team had initially planned to tell the truth about the meeting and state that Trump Jr. had gone to seek out damaging information against Hillary Clinton, a claim that the team did, eventually, admit to, but only after first claiming that the meeting was set up to talk about Russian adoption policy.

This despite the fact that, on June 16, Trump lawyer Jay Sekulow insisted, “I do want to be clear, that the President was not involved in the drafting of the statement and did not issue the statement.”

What’s more, the Post reported, advisers in the White House are worried that Trump will continue to step into the investigation.

“He refuses to sit still,” an adviser told the Post. “He doesn’t think he’s in any legal jeopardy, so he really views this as a political problem he is going to solve by himself.”