The defense of “Clinton did it too!” doesn’t hold water, but how close are the Ukraine/Clinton and Russia/Trump storylines. Better question is do you care because if you hate one you’ll cheerlead the results – PB/TK
Exploring Sean Hannity’s defense of Donald Trump Jr.: Clinton, Ukraine did it, too – By Philip Bump / July 11 2017
Sean Hannity’s defense of Donald Trump Jr. during his Fox News interview on Tuesday evening began with a lengthy and muddled pastiche of ways in which the Democrats – and Hillary Clinton in particular – had behaved just as badly. Or, maybe, worse.
Trump Jr. was there, you’ll recall, to respond to questions about his having accepted a meeting with an individual who explicitly promised negative information about Clinton offered by the Russian government. That Hannity was his first interlocutor on the subject is hardly surprising; the Fox News host has repeatedly demonstrated his willingness to gloss over negative news about the administration. And as the show began, he made that clear.
Hannity revisited one of the points from his introduction later in the show – a point that Trump Jr. himself had made on Twitter on Tuesday morning. What about a Politico report from January, Hannity asked, suggesting that Ukraine was colluding with the Clinton campaign to help her candidacy?
After loosely describing that Politico report, Hannity suggested that the media was ignoring it at their peril.
“I pose this question to everybody in the media that’s forced to tune in tonight,” he asked. “Which is worse?”
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