Trumplandia: Serious Legal Jeopardy Looms With Confirmation That Trump DID Plan Strategy For Handling Don Jr Meeting Reveal

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Based on Tuesday's acknowledgement by White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, it seems that there's lot of truth in the Washington Post's new assertion that the president was deeply involved in writing the particulars of a statement about his son Donald Trump Jr's meeting with a Kremlin-connected lawyer  “primarily discussed a program about the adoption of Russian children”.

Trump's involvement in planning the strategy on how to handle the media on the breaking story was vehemently denied on all five Sunday news shows, by one of his attorneys Jay Sekulow.

Misleading the public or the news media is not a crime, but advisers to Trump and his family told The Washington Post that they fear any factual information that suggests the president is seeking to hide information about interactions between his campaign and Russians almost inevitably will draw additional scrutiny from special counsel Robert Mueller III.

In spite of hiring an expanding roster of lawyers, Trump, is increasingly acting as his own lawyer, strategist and publicist, often disregarding the recommendations of the professionals he has hired, reports multiple sources to WaPo.

“He refuses to sit still,” the presidential adviser said. “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.” In his own eyes, he is innocent of any wrongdoing so his actions can't possibly boomerang against him. 

Trump has said that the Russia investigation is “the greatest witch hunt in political history,” calling it an elaborate hoax created by Democrats to explain why Clinton lost an election she should have won.