Nothing in Trump Jr.’s background prepares him to tell the truth or even to recognize truth as a value. There is no reason to think that Trump Jr. was ever trained or taught to think or act morally or ethically. The Trump presidency is an extension of the Trump campaign; the Trump campaign was (and is) an extension of the Trump family business; and Donald Trump Sr. is a career criminal who has folded his criminal enterprise into the presidency. Whatever culpability Trump Jr. has for engaging with the Russians, it is surely less than Manafort’s, who as campaign chair should have recognized that the proposed meeting was inappropriate, vetoed it, and referred the matter to the FBI; and less than Kushner’s, who subsequently perjured himself by failing to disclose the meeting in his application for security clearance. Of course, “Il pesce puzza dalla testa.”