Politico is reporting that while trying to catch a flight at DCA on Friday, the president’s son shared a gate with a figure he probably didn’t want to run into: Robert Mueller, the special counsel for the Russia investigation.



Spotted: Robert Mueller and Donald Trump Jr. both waiting for their flights this morning at the 35X gate at DCA. And yes, there is a photo. https://t.co/gKUSO7QhOU pic.twitter.com/tvcoyLMnDW — POLITICO (@politico) July 27, 2018

The proximity between the two men is likely to be pure coincidence. Still, it comes at an awkward time, with news last night that the president’s former lawyer Michael Cohen claims that Donald Trump Jr. told his father about a planned meeting in 2016 with Russian officials promising opposition research on Hillary Clinton. Trump Jr. surely thinks about Mueller a great deal these days, and this was reminder that the special counsel isn’t easy to escape.