You don't have to believe him, just prove him to be lying in this instance instead of flinging more mud at the wall hoping something sticks.
Putin has a 90%+ approval rating in Russia, do you have any idea how many
millions of fridges have his picture on them? I'm a huge fan of Margot Robbie's body and have her pics all over my faproom wall, can I now claim to be
connected to her?
I know the picture of putin does not prove anything, it was more of an observation.
The fact that he only released this now and demonstrates clear motive to obtain information from the Russian government is clear.
Unless something is unearthed somewhere the only proof sits with Manafort, Kushner, Trump Jr and this lawyer. All of whom have every motivation in the world to make sure that evidence never ever surfaces.
So really maybe nothing can be proven, but the very act that there is undeniable intent to meet with an agent of a foreign government does begin to raise very pertinent questions.
Especially since this same government's name has come up time and time again, leading to the dismissal of various people close to the Trump campaign and leadership.
Strange how now pro-Trump supporter is willing to address or explain how absolutely convinient this all is. How the whole Trump campaign vehemently denied any meeting what so ever, then shifting the goal post slightly, until the game was up and the lie was fully exposed.
So now the convinient position is well you can't prove that Trump Jr is lying about the meeting being a fruitless exercise, so obviously its all false and there is nothing wrong here. That like looking for a hitman, knowing its hitman, knowing that you want him to kill Bob, but when the police arrive, using the defense well yeah no he didnt kill anyone so meh.
A glaring irony is for a campaign that was run as ultra patriotic to be so willing to garner assistance from a foreign government is laughable.
So yes let us naively belive there is nothing more to this.