Scarborough on Trump Jr. Tweets: 'I Guess It Runs in the Family'

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough on Tuesday slammed Donald Trump Jr.'s comments on Twitter in the wake of the reports of his meeting with a Russian lawyer who allegedly promised information about Hillary Clinton's campaign.

"How stupid of Don Junior? I mean, I guess it runs in the family to go on Twitter when he's clearly in legal jeopardy," Scarborough said Tuesday on his "Morning Joe" program.

"This time yesterday morning everybody knew he was clearly in legal jeopardy. He goes up on Twitter again yesterday, only to be undercut by The New York Times last night, because people inside his own White House, inside his own administration, are leaking on him," Scarborough added. 

On Monday, Trump Jr. tweeted:

Obviously I'm the first person on a campaign to ever take a meeting to hear info about an opponent... went nowhere but had to listen. https://t.co/ccUjL1KDEa

— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) July 10, 2017

Scarborough replied with a tweet of his own, noting that experienced campaign veteran Paul Manafort was at the Russian meeting.

The Trump Team's "We're stupid and never ran a campaign before" defense falls apart because campaign vet Paul Manafort was in the meeting.

— Joe Scarborough (@JoeNBC) July 11, 2017

Trump Jr. followed up with a response to The New York Times story:

No inconsistency in statements, meeting ended up being primarily about adoptions. In response to further Q's I simply provided more details. https://t.co/FdT1D4hfhz

— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) July 10, 2017

Happy to work with the committee to pass on what I know. https://t.co/tL47NOoteM

— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) July 10, 2017

Natalia Veselnitskaya, the Russian lawyer who met with Trump Jr., said Tuesday that in that meeting, she did not meet to share information about the Clinton campaign.

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