Does anyone really believe

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5. I think it's possible

He may well have known only vaguely that Junior and Kushner and Manafort were having all kinds of meetings, but Trump is not a detail-oriented person on most things, and besides, he had a full time job running around the country campaigning for president. Certainly, after nothing would have come from the meeting (presuming that's true) it would have never come up again.

All three of the Trump family members involved would not be in a position to know that there was a potential breaking of the law, and their legal advisers, especially Manafort, dropped the ball on this. Yes, it means that Trump picks lousy people, but he's already had to admit that with Flynn, and his supporters don't hold it against him.

Donald Trump is not a very secretive person, I think we've all had enough evidence of that. His son, however, probably has learned to be one, given all of the denials and obfuscations, and that may well have extended to not telling his father about potential dirt on Hillary. They're very dysfunctional people, trying to masquerade as a competent, solid family to do business with.