Donald Trump Jr. hires a lawyer: Russia scandal worms its way into First Family
WASHINGTON — A Washington law professor answered with nary a nanosecond’s hesitation when asked what advice he’d offer President Donald Trump’s eldest son Monday, as the Russia scandal inched its way through the First Family.
”I would tell him that he should get a lawyer,” said Paul Berman of George Washington University.
He made that suggestion in an interview just before 3 p.m. Within the hour, Donald Trump Jr. confirmed in a statement that he had, in fact, retained legal counsel in this mushrooming controversy.
It followed Trump Jr.’s own admission over the weekend that he met a Russian lawyer with ties to the Putin government during the last election, in the hope of gaining dirt on Hillary Clinton.