Donald Trump’s position is looking shakier by the day

Here we go again. NBC News is reporting that Donald Trump Jnr. somehow forgot to mention that a former Soviet counterintelligence officer was also present at his pow-wow with a Russian lawyer. The man in question, Rinat Akhmetsin, has denied ever being affiliated with Russian spy agencies. But as NBC politely put it, “the presence at the meeting of a Russian-American with suspected intelligence ties is likely to be of interest to special counsel Robert Mueller and the House and Senate panels investigating the Russian election interference campaign.”

Indeed it is. As former Obama administration ethics chief Norman Eisen, among others, suggests, it looks as though Moscow was probing to see whether or not the Trump campaign would be receptive to outside efforts on its behalf. If so, the response was certainly a thumbs up, at least to judge by the “I love it” ejaculation of Donald Jnr. No doubt Trump’s son is consistently maintaining that nothing of import happened at the meeting – a claim reiterated by his father at a joint news conference in Paris with president Emmanuel Macron.