Dumping personal emails to preempt a news cycle isn’t ‘transparency’

Published July 11, 2017 11:48pm ET



President Trump praised his eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., for releasing a batch of personal emails Tuesday showing he agreed in 2016 to meet with a woman who claimed she was a Russian government official with dirt on Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.

“My son is a high-quality person, and I applaud his transparency,” the president said Thursday through White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders.

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