Republican Reps. Louie Gohmert (Texas) and Dana Rohrabacher (Calif.) took to the House floor on Friday to defend Donald Trump Jr.'s meeting during the presidential election with a Kremlin-connected Russian lawyer who claimed to have compromising information about Hillary Clinton. Rohrabacher argued there's absolutely "nothing wrong" with Trump Jr.'s meeting, claiming that it's "not illegal to receive information from someone." Moreover, Rohrabacher said, like in the case of the leaked Democratic emails, "what's important is only whether the truth was revealed."
Gohmert marveled at Trump Jr.'s "pretty good judgment" in leaving the meeting when he realized it was "worthless" because the lawyer did not have the comprising information she'd claimed to have. "I wish that President Obama, Loretta Lynch, Hillary Clinton had as good of judgment in their meetings," Gohmert said.
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