Analysis: How Sean Hannity aided the Trump Tower meeting clean-up effort
Donald Trump Jr., left, is interviewed by host Sean Hannity on Fox News Channel in New York on July 11, 2017. By Philip Bump Philip Bump National correspondent focused largely on the numbers behind politics Email Bio Follow April 19 at 4:01 PM It took about a year for Trump Organization attorneys to learn that Donald Trump Jr. had invited a Kremlin-linked attorney into their building for a meeting during the 2016 campaign.
Word of the meeting slowly trickled into Trump world. On June 22, 2017, Hope Hicks, then working as a communications staffer in the White House, and Trump, Kushner and Ivanka Trump attended a meeting in which Kushner tried to raise the issue of the meeting and the incriminating emails that launched it. Trump said he didn’t want to hear about it.
Hannity’s name comes up several times in the Mueller report. At one point, he’s identified as one of several high-profile individuals who shared information on social media that was part of the Russian effort to sow dissension during the election. This mention about Priebus, though, is more telling. “For months, the destroy-Trump media has been floating the conspiracy theories and pushing all kinds of unfounded accusations against President Trump and members of his administration,” Hannity said. “But guess what. It’s actually now boomeranging back. The left — they are the ones guilty of committing the very things that they have been accusing the president and people close to the president of.
Hicks had a suggestion, according to Mueller’s report: She “said she wanted to get in front of the story and have Trump Jr. release the emails as part of an interview with ‘softball questions.’"Trump declined that idea.
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