Don trump, Jr -vapid, amoral, clueless

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A well written, thoughtful piece, accurately sad analysis of Trump vapidness, amoral, privileged cluelessness....



The Simple Son

Why Don Jr. thinks he did nothing wrong.

by William Saletan


In his June 2016 email exchange about getting Russian dirt on Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump Jr. comes across as an unscrupulous fool.* He compounded that impression by shifting his explanations for the email exchange and what it led to: a secret meeting between Trump Jr., Paul Manafort, Jared Kushner, and an emissary from the Russian government. On Tuesday night, Trump Jr. went on Fox News to show the world what’s really in his head and heart. The answer is: nothing.

What stood out most in the interview was the moral emptiness of the president’s son. He told his interviewer, Sean Hannity, that his decision to arrange the 2016 meeting with Natalia Veselnitskaya, a lawyer with deep ties to the Russian regime, was a no-brainer because it might have yielded useful material against Clinton. “That’s what we do in business,” said Trump Jr. “If there’s information out there, you want it. And then you [decide] what you do with it.” Running for president, in the Trump family’s view, was like running a company: You do what serves your advantage.

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