Junior's New Excuse

While Trump Jr. was questioned by Senate staff Thursday, some Democratic Senators reportedly popped in and out of the session to listen to the President’s eldest son. One of them, Connecticut Sen. Richard Blumenthal, later said that Trump Jr.’s answers were lacking.

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In the closed-door meeting, Trump Jr. offered a new line of reasoning to explain his eagerness to accept the meeting, which was pitched to him as an opportunity to obtain dirt of Hillary Clinton. He wasn’t looking for politically damaging information, he told investigators, but learning everything he could in order to assess Clinton’s “fitness” for office.

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“To the extent they had information concerning the fitness, character or qualifications of a presidential candidate, I believed that I should at least hear them out,” Trump Jr. said in the statement.

  NY Magazine

How does he explain his email then? You know the one: "If it’s what you say I love it - especially later in the summer."

Also, plead ignorance - it's totally believable.

“I had never worked on a campaign before and it was an exhausting, all-encompassing, life-changing experience,” he said. “Every single day I fielded dozens, if not hundreds, of emails and phone calls.”

I know I come from a long line of supermen, but, really, there's a limit.

How many of those "dozens, if not hundreds" of emails and calls did he eagerly create a meeting for?

 ...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.