Mediagazer: How Circa, Hannity, and other right-leaning media pushed claim that Donald Trump Jr.'s Russia meeting was a “setup”, after Trump's lawyers proposed the idea (Media Matters for America)

1:30 AM ET, August 2, 2017

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