Trump Sunday Tweets: Defends Son, Watches Golf, Attacks Clinton And Approval Ratings

The president took to Twitter Sunday to defend his son against the recent controversy over his meeting with a Russian lawyer seeking dirt on the Hillary Clinton campaign, to attack Clinton and to attack a Washington Post-ABC News approval poll. President Donald Trump tweeted from his private course, the Trump National Golf Club, where he has been watching the 2017 U.S. Women’s Open golf tournament since returning from France on Friday.

“HillaryClinton can illegally get the questions to the Debate & delete 33,000 emails but my son Don is being scorned by the Fake News Media?” Trump tweeted Sunday morning.

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Trump is referring to emails that were deleted from Clinton’s private servers when she served as secretary of state. Clinton also received an early look at a question from a primary debate with her Democratic opponent Sen. Bernie Sanders. The debate question information surfaced after a series of Democratic emails were hacked and released on WikiLeaks. U.S. intelligence agencies have said that Russia was responsible for the hack which targeted the Democratic National Committee and its staffers.

Trump’s son, Donald Trump Jr., is currently embroiled in a scandal for accepting a meeting with a Russian lawyer under the pretense that the lawyer could provide detrimental information about the Clinton campaign as part of a concerted Russian government effort to help his father. The meeting took place in June 2016 during the presidential campaign, and Trump Jr. released the emails that set up the meeting this week, prompted by the reporting of the New York Times.

Trump also attacked the media, Sunday morning, a familiar refrain for the president.

“With all of its phony unnamed sources & highly slanted & even fraudulent reporting, #Fake News is DISTORTING DEMOCRACY in our country!” said Trump.

Reporting from the New York Times and elsewhere caused Trump Jr. to amend his statement about the meeting several times and caused him to release the emails. Trump thanked former campaign adviser, Michael Caputo in a tweet as well.

“Thank you to former campaign adviser Michael Caputo for saying so powerfully that there was no Russian collusion in our winning campaign.” tweeted the president.

Caputo appeared before the House Intelligence Committee on Friday to testify about connections between the Trump campaign. Caputo told reporters that in the closed-door session he testified that there were no connections between the campaign and Russia. The House committee is one of several bodies investigating the Trump campaign and possible connections to Russia.

In his final Sunday morning tweet, Trump went after a Washington Post - ABC News poll. The poll indicates that Trump’s approval rating is down to 36 percent overall, his disapproval rating is at 58 percent with 48 percent of those “disapprove strongly.” His approval rating amongst Republicans is high, coming in at 82 percent.

“The ABC/Washington Post Poll, even though almost 40% is not bad at this time, was just about the most inaccurate poll around election time!” tweeted Trump.

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Trump also had several tweets over the weekend about the golf tournament and his supporters there in Bedminster, New Jersey.

“Thank you to all of the supporters, who far out-numbered the protesters, yesterday at the Women's U.S. Open. Very cool!” tweeted the president.