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WASHINGTON, U.S. – Curious about U.S. President Donald Trump’s recent, particularly energized bashing of the special counsel Robert Mueller on social media, reports now claim to have found the President’s motivation.

According to multiple reports, primarily reports in CNN and Washington Post, sources have revealed that the President’s latest social media outburst was motivated by fears for his eldest son, Donald Trump Jr. 

The Washington Post and CNN stated in a report on Saturday that Trump has privately expressed concern about Don Jr.’s possible exposure in Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference and possible collusion in the 2016 U.S. Presidential election. 

Trump’s worries about his son facing possible legal trouble is because his eldest son set up the controversial Trump Tower meeting with a Kremlin-linked attorney in June 2016.

Despite varying claims made about the agenda for the meeting, email proof has emerged that Don Jr. held and attended the meeting in order to obtain damaging information about his father’s rival and then-Democratic Presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton. 

Further, Don Jr. has admitted to this in his testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee, even though he has clarified to investigators that his father knew nothing about the meeting ahead of time.

Don Jr and his attorney have even said that the Russian lawyer did not provide any damaging information on Clinton, and instead they discussed other matters. 

Trump is now said to have told several of his advisers and friends that he’s worried the investigation could destroy the lives of “innocent and decent people,” including his son.  

Last month, a report in CNN stated that the president’s former personal attorney, Michael Cohen, was willing to tell Mueller that Trump did in fact know about the meeting in advance.

Cohen’s statement has raised an even more dangerous prospect that Don Jr. son lied under oath, apart from possible repercussions that the President might himself have to face. 

The report in CNN on Saturday noted that anxiety over the probe possibly ensnaring members of the Trump family — and in particular son-in-law Jared Kushner — has consumed the president “for months.”

It pointed out that those concerns of the President have now shifted to Trump Jr.

The report claims that Trump’s increasing concern is one of the reasons he keeps lashing out at Mueller on Twitter. 

According to the report in The Washington Post on Saturday, Trump is said to have confided his “unease” over his son’s potential exposure to the probe. 

The report said, the president “does not believe his son purposefully broke the law, but is fearful nonetheless that Trump Jr. inadvertently may have wandered into legal ­jeopardy.” 

Responding to Saturday’s multiple reports revealing his alleged concerns, Trump took to Twitter, and argued that the Trump Tower meeting was “totally legal.”

Trump tweeted, “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!”

Last week, Trump renewed his social media attacks on Mueller, including sending out a possibly dangerous tweet on Wednesday, in which he stated that Attorney General Jeff Sessions should stop the Mueller investigation “RIGHT NOW.”

At the time, his rage seemed to have stemmed from the ongoing trial against Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort. 

Enraged over the proceedings, Trump wrote on Twitter, “..This is a terrible situation and Attorney General Jeff Sessions should stop this Rigged Witch Hunt right now, before it continues to stain our country any further. Bob Mueller is totally conflicted, and his 17 Angry Democrats that are doing his dirty work are a disgrace to USA!”

Soon after the President sent out the tweet, Democratic Congressman Adam Schiff, the ranking member of the House intelligence committee, expressed alarm at the president’s order.

Schiff said, “The President of the United States just called on his Attorney General to put an end to an investigation in which the President, his family and campaign may be implicated. This is an attempt to obstruct justice hiding in plain sight. America must never accept it.”
Several others raised the same question against the President’s intention behind the tweet.

However, Trump’s aides tried to downplay the tweet, with White House Press secretary Sarah Sanders denying that the tweet was an order for Sessions to act.

Sanders argued, “It’s not an order, it’s the president’s opinion.”

Meanwhile, Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani said, “I think it’s very well-established the president uses tweets to express his opinion. He very carefully used the word ‘should’.”