Eli Lake, Columnist

Trump Needs to Come Clean. Democrats Need to Be Careful.

The Donald Jr.-Russia revelations are a tipping point but not treason.

July 12, 2017 at 3:13 PM EDT

Eli Lake is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering national security and foreign policy. He was the senior national security correspondent for the Daily Beast and covered national security and intelligence for the Washington Times, the New York Sun and UPI.

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It's fashionable among President Donald Trump's defenders to dismiss the reports of his eldest son meeting with a Russian lawyer who promised damaging information on Hillary Clinton as yet another "nothing burger."

You've heard the counterpoints. The Democrats are obsessed with the Kremlin. Nothing came of the Russian attempt to dish dirt. Donald Jr. made all his e-mails about it public. And, hey, whatever happened, it's probably not even illegal

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