Former George W. Bush aide Karl Rove on Monday said he would not have taken a meeting with a Russian lawyer the way Donald Trump Jr. according to Politico.
Speaking at an off-the-record corporate conference, Rove said any campaign that receives an email offering opposition research as aid from a foreign government should not take the meeting and should notify the FBI, Politico Playbook reported.
Rove said staffers on a presidential campaign often receive offers of opposition research, which he said are often unfruitful and should be passed on to opposition researchers.
Trump Jr. last week tweeted email messages surrounding a meeting with a “Russian government attorney” after he was offered damaging information on Hillary Clinton as part of a Russian state effort to aid his father’s campaign. Questions arising from his disclosure have since metastasized to ensnare his brother-in-law Jared Kushner and father President Donald Trump as well.
Not even KARL ROVE???
Any question about the propriety of the meeting has now been answered, finally and conclusively.
When it’s too unethical for Ham Rove, you know you’re in pretty deep.
It’s not that he’s that ethical, he’s just not that fucking stupid.
There are very few instances where I would credit Karl Rove with spontaneously speaking the unvarnished truth, but this is one of them.
Even Rove can smell which way the wind is blowing.