Like father like son: Donald Trump Jr took to Twitter on Monday (July 10) to defend his meeting last year with a Russian lawyer who promised damaging information about Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.<br /><br />Initially he said the meeting focused on adoptions and he didn’t even mention the Clinton angle. Now he’s unapologetic about it – but says the meeting was basically pointless.<br /><br />“Obviously I’m the first person on a campaign to ever take a meeting to hear info about an opponent…went nowhere but had to listen,” Trump Jr. said on Twitter.<br /><br />“No inconsistency in statements, meeting ended up being primarily about adoptions. In response to further Q’s I simply provided more details,” he added.<br /><br />The latest comments further back up a New York Times report claiming that when Trump Jr met last June with Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya, he expected to collect dirt on his father’s rival.<br /><br />According to the newspaper, Trump’s campaign manager Paul Manafort tagged along, as well as his son in law Jared Kushner.<br /><br />The meeting is bound to further fuel ongoing federal investigations into whether the Trump campaign colluded with Russia to win the presidential election.<br />
