Notorious liberal magazine Business Insider has a damning op-ed about the Don Jr. story.

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Maybe Natalia Veselnitskaya really did just waste everybody’s time.

But the people telling us that nothing came of the meeting are people who were in the meeting and would have reason to want us to believe that nothing came of the meeting. And they’re also lying liars who have been lying about all sorts of stuff, including, for months, whether there were contacts between the Trump campaign and agents of the Russian government.

Donald Trump Jr.’s story about why he took the meeting makes no sense. Tuesday night on “Hannity,” he repeatedly said he took it as “a courtesy” to “an acquaintance.” Was Trump Jr. routinely pulling Paul Manafort (the campaign chairman at the time) and Jared Kushner (Trump’s son-in-law, whose time is actually valuable) into meetings with unknown people with information of unknown value to provide courtesies to acquaintances? If so, he must have been extremely annoying to work with.