The WH is putting the focus on junior to divert it from Kushner, who has greater legal vulnerability because of his position. IOW, throwing him under the bus.

the "cheel-dren". Their father is a maniac. And it's so obvious Sr's shining star
is Ivanka - and by default Kushner. I imagine the boys have tried all their lives
to please him - to make him like them as much as he loves Ivanka.

yes their dad is a sociopath and a buffoon but the kids have long prospered using the family name and they PIMPED TO HIM INSTALLED INTO THE WHITE HOUSE

For losing a playoff series then we will know that the Saddam Hussein family has been reincarnated

he was born in Queens.

Baseball is probably too American for him.

...he is not subject to the same laws as Jared, with Jared considered part of his Cabinet.

If Don Jr takes the hit, then Jared would be less exposed?

If I were a bettin' man, I would bet a Franklin that Donald knows about it all?

sniffed out a pretty lawyer

his entourage

Was Don Jr's half-confession part of a plan?

Doubt it.

He's just dumb and devious.

I'm not sure how this is Donnie Jr. "taking the hit" for him.

It seems like they're both sitting in the same pile of shit.

Claude Taylor? @TrueFactsStated 6h6 hours ago

A source with knowledge of the investigation tells me that IC had "ears on" Russian lawyer. The meeting was recorded. Donald, Jr is toast.

there would be nothing to stop various allied foreign intelligence services from doing so.

not - know telling what he would do with that info

He is incapable of understanding what is wrong.

Like the kid who was too wealthy to understand about drinking and driving.

Noblesse oblige is an alien concept to these people.

I seriously doubt that Jr got Kushner and Manefort to attend the meeting without them knowing what is going on. This family is not one that knows how to keep their mouths shut. I imagine that as soon as Jr got the email he went running to the rest of the family. No way that Sr didn't know what was going on either. Non one in that family has ever been forced to face serious consequences for anything they have done in their lives. It is easy to believe that they assumed that they could play with the Russians and never get caught.

suspicious that she made a point to say Kushner left early and Manafort was reading his phone the whole time. Kind of bolsters the idea that they are in cahoots and that Jr was to take fall. why else would she even throw that in? unless they manufactured a story

Junior released the emails thinking along the lines of: "If I'm guilty, why would I personally release emails that show I'm guilty? Nobody would be that stupid! Therefore, I must not really be guilty!"

Simple, no?

like a plant." How does that change or not change your view??

That non-supportive, robotically unemotional statement from #45 sounds like they're throwing Junior to the wolves, perhaps in the hope that such a maneuver will take the heat off Senior. Offload the entire blame onto the shoulders of an "inexperienced son" whose only desire was "to help dad make America great again," or some such fabrication.

Wouldn't be the first time someone's taken the fall for Dad.

of the story. It wasn't just that it was coming out in the Times. They knew Kushner was updating his security clearance forms and he was turning over the information about the meetings anyway. The knuckleheads thought they could control the narrative with their usual bull.