Trump silent as son walloped in Russia scandal

The president has been noticeably quiet as Donald Trump Jr. faces intensifying scrutiny for meeting with a Kremlin-linked lawyer during the campaign.

By NOLAN D. MCCASKILL 07/11/2017 10:05 AM EDT

President Donald Trump has been conspicuously silent about the growing firestorm involving his eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., who is facing more revelations about a meeting he held during the height of the campaign with a Russian lawyer promising damaging information about Hillary Clinton.

Trump has kept a light schedule since returning from the G-20 summit in Germany on Saturday, making no public appearances. He’s been active on Twitter, but his messages have ranged from railing against Democrats to bringing the Olympics to Los Angeles to defending his daughter Ivanka’s role at the G-20. But there have been no tweets about Trump Jr.

And on Monday night, as The New York Times dropped another harmful report about Trump’s eldest son — alleging that he was informed by email that the Clinton information was part of a Russian government effort to help his father — the president’s legal team just reiterated that Trump himself was not a part of it.

“The President was not aware of and did not attend the meeting,” said Mark Corallo, a spokesman for Trump’s legal team.

Trump Jr., who has hired New York criminal defense attorney Alan Futerfas as his personal attorney for Russia-related matters, took to Twitter to defend himself on Tuesday morning. "Media & Dems are extremely invested in the Russia story. If this nonsense meeting is all they have after a yr, I understand the desperation!" he wrote.

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