“In retrospect, I probably would have done things a little differently,” he said at one point.

Returning to that comment later in the interview, Hannity remarked that the admission was “maybe not so Trumpian.”

Hannity opened the show by ripping the media for what he characterized as deeply biased coverage of President Trump and Russia. He slammed the media repeatedly in his questions to Trump Jr.

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But Trump Jr. could not match Hannity's anti-media intensity. After the first commercial break, Hannity played a montage of recent criticism directed at Trump Jr. on other networks.

“What's your reaction to that?” Hannity asked.

“Listen, I think politics is a dirty game,” Trump Jr. replied. “We’ve seen the sides they take. We’ve seen the commentary they’ve had on my father. Uh, you know, I think it’s a little bit ridiculous and overplayed, and I think people are getting that. I think the media has really done themselves a disservice by picking sides so flagrantly. They’ve really driven people to actually have to think about it because — it’s just a tough game.”

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This is a man who literally wears the “fake news” pejorative on his chest, yet the most fiery denunciation he could conjure on Tuesday was “a little bit ridiculous and overplayed.”

Hannity tried again later to set up Trump Jr. for a tirade against alleged media malfeasance, but Trump Jr. just didn’t have it in him.

“I’d love to rant and rave about it but, candidly, right now, with everything that’s going on, I think people see it,” he said. “I, I, — they’re, you know, starting to get it.”