John Heilemann: Trump Is Concerned About Donald Trump Jr.

EXCERPT:

HEILEMANN: “Well I don’t know what the consequences are, but I know that it’s an indication that some folks are not just in serious trouble but now recognize they’re in serious trouble. And I think if you ask  question, Joe, you know, last week we watched as Donald Trump went — went further, deeper, into the realm of public obstruction of justice when he started attacking the Mueller probe, started suggesting the attorney general should shut it down. We now have a clear explanation for why that is, which is that the president is looking at the Manafort trial starting to focus on Rick Gates, starting to focus on some of the things that perhaps Michael Cohen has told investigators about this meeting, about what might have led up to it, about who might have known what about it in advance, about what the president’s role might have been, about what Donald Jr.’s role certainly was. We already have e-mail on — an e-mail trail on that. As the president has started to recognize, used all the various metaphors, but the walls closing in, and actual facts coming closer and closer to the surface, and corroborate witnesses are starting to either come forward or appear to be about to come forward, the president is in exact 180 degree opposite to what hits statement in the tweet says. As Mika suggested, just second ago, you know how he’s up and tweeting he’s not concerned about Donald Trump Jr. He’s concerned about Donald Trump Jr.”