DT revealed that he condoned Jr.'s meeting with the Russian when he said,

[pnwmom]

"many people would have held that meeting" and refused to criticize Junior.

Many of DT's people probably DID hold meetings with Russia. Russia sought out those meetings and DT himself clearly wasn't opposed.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-people-held-sons-russia-meeting/story?id=48599758

President Donald Trump said he did not know of his son's meeting with a Russian attorney in which Donald Trump Jr. expected to hear incriminating information about Hillary Clinton until "a couple of days ago," echoing the claim made by Trump Jr. in his recent defenses of the encounter.

In an interview with Reuters Wednesday, Trump Sr. seemed to dismiss the controversy swirling around his eldest son. After The New York Times first reported last weekend that Trump Jr. met with Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya in June 2016, he released screenshots of emails Tuesday that showed the organization of the meeting, including his interest in damaging information about Clinton.

"I think many people would have held that meeting," said the president to Reuters while maintaining that he was unaware of its occurrence at the time.

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[customerserviceguy]

1. I'm telling you

he thinks Junior did nothing wrong. If the legal system disagrees after a trial and a set of appeals, there's going to be a pardon of Don Jr. Same goes for Kushner if he can't get his ass out of any of this. Trump will be happy to use the power of the pardon to spare his family members from any legal consequences if he's convinced that they didn't do anything against him, whether it was legal or not.

Even if Trump resigns for some other reason, expect pardons to pour out of the Oval Office on the last day. And he's got Pence signed up for that eventuality, too, if his last day comes unexpectedly.