Trump Jr. to Hannity: 'I Can't Help What Someone Sends Me' Over Email

Update: Donald Trump Jr.’s interview with Sean Hannity aired while the mainstream media watched with notepads ready, or so Hannity supposed.

Trump Jr.’s defended himself by arguing the campaign was “going a million miles an hour” and he simply wanted to hear what Natalia Veselnitskaya — the lawyer who was allegedly going to supply him with information on Hillary Clinton.

“Maybe this is something. I should hear them out, Trump Jr. told Hannity. “This was again just basic information that was going to be possibly there. I wanted to hear them out and play it out.”

Of the meeting, Trump Jr. said that Veselnitskaya had no information on Clinton and the conversation apparently centered around the Magnitsky Act; he also said he took the meeting as a “courtesy to [his] acquaintance” Rob Goldstone, the publicist who arranged it.

“I think what happened [is] he sort of goosed up,” Trump told Hannity. “He built up, there was some puffery to the email, perhaps to get the meeting, to make it happen. In the end, there was probably some bait-and-switch about what it was really supposed to be about.”

Jared Kushner and Paul Manafort, who were also present at the meeting, left after a few minutes according to Trump Jr.

In reference to whether he thought he did anything wrong, Trump Jr. said “he didn’t think [his] sirens went up” because the meeting took place before the campaign’s alleged collusion with Russia was even a story.

The last segment of the show centered around how “the mainstream media” handled Trump Jr.’s meeting. His response was surprisingly astute, albeit probably not self-aware: “I think politics is a dirty game.”

Though he continued to by claiming that “the media has really done themselves a disservice by picking sides so flagrantly, they’ve really driven people to actually have to think about it.”