‘I Can’t Help What Someone Sends Me’: Trump Jr. Tells Hannity He Was Motivated by ‘Underreporting’ of Clinton Scandals

‘Someone Sent Me an Email. I Can’t Help What Someone Sends Me. I Read It, I Responded Accordingly.’

Donald Trump Jr. says he isn’t responsible for the emails he gets and when he received one promising “dirt” on Hillary Clinton he “responded accordingly.” The President’s son has been the subject of increasingly damning reports daily in The New York Times, and earlier Tuesday he posted a four-page email that is the subject of several Times articles. That email offered damaging information on Clinton, information came directly from the Russian government. 

In an interview on Fox News’ “Hannity” that will air Tuesday night, Trump Jr. explains his motivation for pursuing and attending the meeting with a Russian government lawyer was to obtain “opposition research,” but also because he believed there were underreported scandals surrounding his father’s Democratic opponent.

“I had been reading about scandals that people were probably underreporting for a long time so maybe it was something that had to do with one of those things,” Trump Jr. told Hannity, according to Fox News. “I didn’t know if there was any credibility, I didn’t know if there was anything behind it, I can’t vouch for the information,” the President’s eldest son said.

“Someone sent me an email. I can’t help what someone sends me. I read it, I responded accordingly.”

“For me this was opposition research,” Trump Jr. added. “They had something, you know, maybe concrete evidence to all the stories I’d been hearing about … so I think I wanted to hear it out. But really it went nowhere and it was apparent that wasn’t what the meeting was about.”

Trump Jr. Also tells “Hannity” that he “probably would have done things a little differently” in retrospect. The Fox News report does not elaborate on what exactly he would have done differently, but campaign veterans and election law experts agree calling the FBI rather than attending the meeting would have been the appropriate course of action.

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After the taping, Sean Hannity went on Fox News and suggested the revelation that the president’s son may have engaged in collusion or or worse was not a big deal. “I ran out of question,” Hannity says.

One question Hannity reportedly does not ask Trump Jr.: Why did he change his story so many times?

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