Trump Goes on Attack as Russia Revelations Appear to Take Toll
“You saw not only willingness, but actually glee from the president’s son, as well as involvement of the campaign manager
and the president’s son-in-law to say, in effect, yes, bring it on,” he said on CBS’s “Face the Nation.”
But the president tweeted his thanks to a former campaign adviser, Michael Caputo, “for saying so powerfully
that there was no Russian collusion in our winning campaign.”
On Friday, Mr. Caputo testified before a closed session of the House Intelligence Committee.
“This is about as clear of evidence you could find of intent by the campaign to collude with the Russians, to get useful information from the
Russians,” Representative Adam B. Schiff of California, the senior Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, said on ABC’s “This Week.”
Trump advisers have often insisted that the campaign had no contact with various Russian insiders — claims that were later proved false.
“HillaryClinton can illegally get the questions to the Debate & delete 33,000 emails
but my son Don is being scorned by the Fake News media?” he tweeted shortly before 7 a.m. Forty minutes later, he posted, “With all of its phony unnamed sources & highly slanted & even fraudulent reporting, #Fake News is DISTORTING DEMOCRACY in our country.”
In between those posts, Mr. Trump thanked people who had turned out to cheer him at the United States Women’s Open, which is being played at Trump National Golf Club despite calls from women’s groups for it to be moved
because of his record of degrading behavior toward women.
The top Democrats investigating Russian meddling in the 2016 election said
that emails that Donald Trump Jr. sent about the meeting appeared to confirm that members of the Trump campaign had intended to cooperate with Russian officials.
