It sounds to me like this, AND the carter page meetings, AND another one Michael Caputo mentioned (and probably more) WERE ALL ATTEMPTS TO SET UP THE TRUMP TEAM!
And they all failed.
Yep. At first I wondered why his son would be so dumb, and then I realized that it is a big nothing, but it’s the best nothing they have. i.e. if it wasn’t this, it would be something else.
Which leaves a reasonable person to say, “Is that all you got?”