The Daily 202: Trump dysfunction follows family from the campaign to the White House
By James Hohmann July 12 at 7:23 AM
THE BIG IDEA: The Trumps are congenitally unable to take personal responsibility.
“In retrospect, I probably would have done things a little differently,” Donald Trump Jr. told Sean Hannity on Fox News last night.
But don’t mistake that for a mea culpa. Because it wasn’t. The president’s namesake dismissed his sitdown last summer with someone he believed to be an agent of the Russian government as “a nothing.”
“Someone sent me an email,” the First Son said. “I can't help what someone sends me. I read it. I responded accordingly. And if there was something interesting there, I think that's pretty common. … I wouldn’t have even remembered it until you started scouring through this stuff. It was literally just a wasted 20 minutes, which was a shame.”
Trump Jr. posted on Twitter earlier in the day what he claimed was the entirety of the exchange in which he agreed to take a meeting with a “Russian government attorney” who could provide damaging information about Hillary Clinton as part of “Russia and its government’s support” for his dad’s presidential campaign.
“The email exchange showed clearly that Trump Jr. understood he was taking the meeting as a way of channeling information directly from the government of a nation hostile to the United States to his father’s campaign,” Rosalind S. Helderman and John Wagner note. “It is the most concrete public evidence to date suggesting that top Trump campaign aides were eager for Russia’s assistance in the campaign. [Music publicist Rob] Goldstone offered to send the information directly to Trump, who had then largely sealed the Republican nomination for president, but said that because the information was ‘ultra sensitive’ he wanted to contact Trump Jr. first instead.”
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President Obama's official photographer, who has been trolling Trump on Instagram, posted this:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BWak4oqlqCl/
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Instagram post by Pete Souza • Jul 11, 2017 at 5:49pm UTC
Remember this scandal from 2014? Just to get all the information out now: this was my fault and I'm the only one to blame. If I hadn't posted this photograph, no one would have ever known he reached over the sneeze guard at Chipotle.
