Trump insists Trump Tower meeting ‘totally legal’

US President Donald Trump is renewing his attacks on two of his favorite targets: the special counsel Russia probe and the news media.

Trump, who is on a working vacation at his New Jersey golf club, begins the day with a series of searing tweets.

He defends calling the media “The Enemy of the People,” and says journalists “purposely cause great division & distrust” and can “cause War!”

Trump then goes after recent reporting about Robert Mueller’s probe into possible links between his campaign and Russian officials, particularly stories on how he may be concerned about his eldest son’s legal exposure.

Fake News reporting, a complete fabrication, that I am concerned about the meeting my wonderful son, Donald, had in Trump Tower. This was a meeting to get information on an opponent, totally legal and done all the time in politics – and it went nowhere. I did not know about it!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 5, 2018

And Trump once again defends the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting in which his son met with a Kremlin-connected lawyer, saying it was “totally legal” and that he didn’t know about it.

— AP