Donald Trump: Trump Jr's meeting 'opposition research'

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

WASHINGTON – President Trump on Thursday defended his son's meeting with a Russian lawyer whom he believed had political dirt on Hillary Clinton – calling it a normal practice during a U.S. presidential campaign.

"It's called opposition research, or even research into your opponent," Trump said at a joint news conference with French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris. "Politics is not the nicest business in the world, but it's very standard where they have information and you take the information."

Earlier this week, Donald Trump Jr. revealed email correspondence showing he was told the potentially incriminating information about Clinton would be coming from the Russian government, before he arranged the June 2016 meeting with Kremlin-linked lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya in Trump Tower.

As some lawmakers and legal experts questioned whether his namesake broke campaign finance laws or improperly colluded with Russia, President Trump stressed that his son's meeting was not a formal Russian government official. He also insisted that it was a "short meeting" and the lawyer did not provide any information on Clinton.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/president-trump-trump-jrs-meeting-opposition-research/ar-BBEm4QU?li=BBnbcA1&ocid=edgsp

[Goonch]

1. opposition research

[D_Master81]

2. clearly

clearly this is an answer for his base. anyone with a functioning brain knows you dont do opposition reasearch w/ people representing a foreign gov't w/ info from that said gov't. But his "walking dead" base, they will say, "yeah this is just normal politics".

[BigmanPigman]

3. Is that the newest term for "treason"?