2. President Trump denounced reports about his son’s meeting with a Russian lawyer as part of “the greatest witch hunt in political history.” He fired off posts on Twitter insisting that Donald Trump Jr. was “innocent” and suggested that he may have been “the victim.”

We collected the best partisan writing on the whole affair, and our reporter discussed unearthing the emails on our podcast “The Daily.” Above, the media setup outside the White House.

Mr. Trump heads to France tonight, where the newly elected president, Emmanuel Macron, invited him to celebrate Bastille Day. “The whiz kid of French politics has a seemingly limitless confidence in his capacity for seduction,” our correspondent writes.