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Don Trump Jr., with back pats from his dad, ludicrously pretends that a few tweets and a sitdown with Fox News’ Sean Hannity settle the matter of his meeting with a Kremlin-linked Russian lawyer whose offer of dirt on Hillary Clinton he gleefully accepted.

For crying out loud: Their tale, told Tuesday afternoon in the name of “transparency,” contradicted the account given just Sunday night, that the meeting only concerned “adoptions.”

It’s also safe to say that what we know now about the encounter — as revealed in four pages of an email thread prior to the meeting, released by Don Jr. in a panic — amounts to a mere sliver of whatever happened. The emails speak nothing of the meeting’s aftermath, or of other explorations the son may have had with Robert Goldstone or other Kremlin contacts as Russia hacked and WikiLeaks leaked in the ensuing months.

In the softball Hannity interview, Junior said he had barely any further contact with Goldstone post-meeting. Not definitive. Asked if he had met with any other Russian operative, Trump Jr. responded, “Why would I?”

Well, that’s obvious: To quench his expressed thirst for potentially incriminating information, no matter its provenance.

Junior’s pursuit of the proffered Clinton material from a foreign adversary may or may not prove criminal. It is most certainly unethical for anyone on an American presidential campaign.

As this still-blurry scandal has come into focus, individuals close to the President have repeatedly “forgotten” key meetings with Russians, only to have their minds jogged by press reports.

Luckily, since team Trump is finding it so hard to get the hang of this transparency thing, they have the Senate Intelligence Committee and special counsel to assist.