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Ad Age “Media Guy” columnist Simon Dumenco’s media roundup for the morning of Tuesday, July 11:

So let’s review what’s been happening between The New York Times and Donald Trump Jr.: On Saturday, the Times published a story saying that Trump Jr. and top Trump campaign aides met with a Kremlin-connected lawyer at Trump Tower in June. Trump Jr. said yeah, that meeting happened, but so what, we talked about a Russian adoption program. Then on Sunday the Times ran a story saying that Trump Jr. was promised dirt about Hillary Clinton at that meeting. So then Trump Jr. said, well, yeah, duh, I wanted to hear anti-Hillary stuff, but the information offered was useless, but I didn’t really know who I was meeting with, and we still mostly just talked about an adoption program.

And then on Monday night — well, see No. 1, below. [UPDATE: See the addition at the end of this post.] Anyway, see a pattern here? It’s tempting to conclude that the Times is holding back what it knows about Trump Jr. and releasing it piecemeal in the hopes that Trump Jr. will lie and/or obfuscate, and then force him to backtrack as it releases more information. The Times, it seems, keeps setting traps for Trump Jr., and he keeps falling for them. Is it a cat-and-mouse game if the mouse keeps on climbing into the cat’s mouth?

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