Mueller Weighed Charges Against Trump Jr. Over Tower Meeting
- Report cites lack of evidence of knowing violations of law
- Meeting had been cited by Democrats as evidence of collusion
Photographer: Albin Lohr-Jones/Pool via Bloomberg
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Special Counsel Robert Mueller said he considered charging President Donald Trump’s eldest son and other participants in a June 2016 Trump Tower meeting with campaign-finance violations but chose not to because of a high bar to prove they intended to break the law.
Mueller’s decision not to charge Donald Trump Jr. or anyone else at the gathering, including Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner, was based in part on a lack of evidence about their state of mind when they agreed to meet a Kremlin-linked lawyer who promised dirt on Hillary Clinton, the special counsel said in his report released Thursday.