Newsweek: Donald Trump Jr. ‘Continues to be in serious trouble ,’ Ex-Watergate Lawyer Says After Updated FEC Complaint

First son Donald Trump Jr. “continues to be in serious trouble” regarding his involvement with Russians leading up to the 2016 presidential election, a former Watergate lawyer said after watchdog groups updated their Federal Election Commission complaint against Trump campaign members Tuesday.

The watchdogs—Campaign Legal Center, Common Cause and Democracy 21—filed a supplement to their July 2017 complaint against President Donald Trump’s presidential campaign committee for soliciting contributions from foreign nationals via opposition research that Russians offered.

In the supplement, the complainants argued that while special counsel Robert Mueller decided not to pursue criminal charges against Trump Jr., his report provided a roadmap for the FEC to assess civil penalties. The watchdogs cited the Mueller report’s account of the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting in which Trump Jr., Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner and Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort met with a Kremlin-linked lawyer who promised dirt on Hillary Clinton.

“The Special Counsel concluded that the promised ‘documents and information that would incriminate Hillary’ constituted a ‘thing of value,’” the supplement states. “And that Trump Jr.—and potentially Manafort and Kushner—solicited such a contribution from a person known to be a foreign national.”

The supplement concludes: “In other words, the Special Counsel concluded that, at a minimum, Trump Jr. violated the ban on soliciting contributions from foreign nationals.”