A former Watergate prosecutor compared Donald Trump Jr.'s original statement on his meeting with a Russian lawyer to a fake sick note at school.

Jill Wine-Banks's comments come after a report that President Trump Donald John TrumpObama calls on Senate not to fill Ginsburg's vacancy until after election Planned Parenthood: 'The fate of our rights' depends on Ginsburg replacement Progressive group to spend M in ad campaign on Supreme Court vacancy MORE dictated the statement from his eldest son about his meeting last year with a Russian lawyer. The statement was ultimately issued to The New York Times by Trump Jr.

During an interview on MSNBC, Wine-Banks said either the president was "acting in totally reckless disregard of the truth or he deliberately lied by knowing the truth."

"Either one is not a good option," she said.

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She went on to say that as a child, her mother would never have written a note to her school saying she was sick if she didn't want to go to school — unless it was true.

"I think this is the same thing," she said.

"The president is writing for his son, making an excuse that isn't true, and if my mother had been his mother, that wouldn't have happened."

The statement the president reportedly dictated emphasized the meeting was "not a campaign issue at the time." Instead, it said the topic had been primarily Russian adoption policy.

The statement came just days before Trump Jr. released a thread of emails detailing his conversations in setting up the meeting with a Russian lawyer whom he was told had compromising information on then-Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton Hillary Diane Rodham ClintonWhat Senate Republicans have said about election-year Supreme Court vacancies Bipartisan praise pours in after Ginsburg's death Trump carries on with rally, unaware of Ginsburg's death MORE.