Kimmel knocks Trump’s ‘incrimi-tweet’

Jimmy Kimmel mocked President Trump for his tweet about a meeting Donald Trump Jr. took with a Russian lawyer offering dirt on Hillary Clinton, saying the president has done “a good job of convicting himself publicly.”

Kimmel said late Monday that the president’s tweet about the Trump Tower meeting could “potentially land his son in prison,” noting it contradicted past statements made by the president and his son, who has said that the 2016 meeting was about Russian adoptions.

“It’s nice that even on vacation the president finds time to incrimi-tweet his son — his ‘wonderful son,’ I should say,” the late-night host joked.

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Kimmel also hit Trump over his tweets and public statements about special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe, saying that “not since Robert Durst and ‘The Jinx’ has a defendant done such a good job of convicting himself publicly.”

“But Donald Trump does what the syphilis tells him to do, he doesn’t listen to anybody,” he continued.

“I like to imagine his lawyers’ faces when they see a tweet like this. I bet they carry pillows to scream into,” Kimmel added.

Trump on Sunday pushed back against reports that he was concerned about Trump Jr.’s legal fate over the meeting with Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya, and confirmed that it was held to seek damaging information on Hillary Clinton.

Fake News reporting, a complete fabrication, that I am concerned about the meeting my wonderful son, Donald, had in Trump Tower. This was a meeting to get information on an opponent, totally legal and done all the time in politics – and it went nowhere. I did not know about it!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 5, 2018