Trump Aides: Russia Flap Proves Don Jr. Is the 'Fredo' of the First Family

[DonViejo]

DADDY’S LITTLE HELPER?
Trump Aides: Russia Flap Proves Don Jr. Is the ‘Fredo’ of the First Family

Former Trump campaign officials said Trump Jr.’s role in the scandal involving a Kremlin-linked lawyer is just the latest in a series of mistakes by the president’s first-born son.

LACHLAN MARKAY
ASAWIN SUEBSAENG
07.09.17 8:15 PM ET

President Donald Trump’s worst campaign surrogate is back in the limelight, and reminding some former Trump campaign colleagues why he earned the nickname “Fredo.”

Donald Trump Jr., the president’s eldest son, is now at the center of events fueling scrutiny of the campaign’s contacts with individuals tied to the Russian government who, the New York Times reported on Sunday, offered to share damaging information about Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton with Trump Jr. and other senior campaign officials.

News of the meeting between Trump Jr. and a Russian lawyer with Kremlin ties has thrust Trump Jr. back into headlines—and revived the First Son’s haphazard practices that infuriated campaign operatives last year.

If the substance of the new revelations weren’t damning enough, Trump Jr. has invited additional scrutiny with public statements that only admitted the campaign was seeking damaging information about Clinton after media reports revealed additional details of the interactions.

People who worked and interacted with “Junior” during his father’s political rise in the Republican Party aren’t entirely surprised that the oldest Trump son would find himself in this mess. Current White House officials and former Trump campaign staffers recall Trump Jr. as a recurring liability and a chronic headache for the presidential campaign, prone to unforced errors and ill-advised activity on social media and elsewhere, and the precise “opposite of political savvy,” as one official put it.

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[gordianot]

1. So who will take him for a boat ride?

[tanyev]

2. So this moron and his moronic brother are now running Trump, Inc. without any assistance from Daddy?

Is that what we're supposed to believe?

[malaise]

3. Bullshit

The whole darn family is involved

[Fiendish Thingy]

4. And here all the time I thought it was Eric nt