Exploring Sean Hannity's defense of Donald Trump Jr.: Clinton and Ukraine did it, too

[DonViejo]

By Philip Bump July 11 at 11:08 PM

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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[Chasstev365]

1. Sean, Sean, Sean....

So many of us called what you would try to do when the interview was first announced yesterday afternoon. It was Hillary and the DNC, blah, blah, blah....

You are such a predictable, pathetic loser!

[cilla4progress]

2. So while there may have been

Some loose connection to gathering oppo research with Ukraine, Hillary / DNC never weaponized it, as tRump / Russia did.

[MFM008]

3. And this is the beginning

Of path A laid out by Rachel last night.

[Grammy23]

4. If he is so confident of this, why doesn't he produce the evidence?

Oh, you want me to back up my assertions? says a perplexed Hannity. Don't be silly. It's easier to just toss out that old chestnut. But, but, but...Hillary did it, too. And like gullible sheep, his viewers accept it with no proof. Now that there IS proof that trump's campaign did do it, it will be interesting to see how many of them change their opinion about tRump. I suspect that all it will take is a little encouragement from Hannity that none of it matters since "Hillary did it, too."