Sunday morning, Donald Trump responded to reports that he was concerned his son was a target of the Mueller investigation into Russian interference with our election by… tweeting out that his son lied to Congress and tried to conspire with Russians to gather dirt on Hillary Clinton.

It’s a bold move! It’s not every day that you see a father implicate his child in a conspiracy to defraud the American election system to deflect from reports that he defrauded the American election system. It’s like shooting the hostage, only if the hostage was your kid and he hadn’t been taken captive yet.

I was on AM Joy with Joy Reid on Sunday to talk about it. Well, my disembodied voice was on. I was physically in my sleep clothes threatening to murder my dog with my eyes if she barked while I called into the show.

Like I said on the show, we’re very close to the “You’re goddamn right I ordered the Code Red” phases of these proceedings.

Elie Mystal is the Executive Editor of Above the Law and the Legal Editor for More Perfect. He can be reached @ElieNYC on Twitter, or at elie@abovethelaw.com. He will resist.