The meeting is now one focus of several Washington investigations into Russian meddling in the election, with numerous congressional panels interviewing witnesses and scheduling hearings.
Special Counsel Robert Mueller, a former director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, is now heading a criminal investigation. He is probing contacts between Trump’s campaign and Russian interests and whether Trump obstructed justice by firing James Comey, then the FBI director who was leading the agency’s Russia investigation before Mueller took over.
A new Washington Post-ABC News poll said that 60 percent of those it surveyed believe the younger Trump’s meeting with the Russian lawyer was inappropriate.
President Trump on Sunday fumed at the American news media for its reporting on the meeting, accusing reporters of “distorting democracy.”
“Hillary Clinton can illegally get the questions to the debate and delete 33,000 emails, but my son Don is being scorned by the Fake News Media?” Trump wrote on Twitter.
“With all of its phony unnamed sources and highly slanted and even fraudulent reporting, Fake News is DISTORTING DEMOCRACY in our country,” he said in a separate tweet.
The White House Correspondents Association rejected the president’s assertions.
“A free and independent press is actually critical to democracy,” it said.
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