Donald Trump Jr. with reporters during the 139th Easter Egg Roll on the South Lawn of the White House on April 17. Getty Images/Win McNamee The New York Post didn't pull any punches in a blistering editorial about Donald Trump Jr. on Tuesday.

"We see one truly solid takeaway from the story of the day: Donald Trump Jr. is an idiot," the Post's editorial board wrote.

The story, of course, was Trump's self-published email chain, detailing how a British publicist arranged a meeting between him and a Russian lawyer in June 2016.

The emails reveal that Trump was explicitly told the attorney was with the Russian government and that she was offering dirt on Hillary Clinton to help Donald Trump's presidential campaign — meaning the younger Trump may have broken the law in going through with the meeting.

"As if the government of former KGB spymaster Vladimir Putin would do anything so clumsy," the Post said.

"Oh, and someone was so careless with the e-mail trail that it all wound up being fed to The New York Times," providing for days of embarrassing headlines, the newspaper wrote.

The fiery take was a departure for the traditionally right-leaning Post, which has emerged as one of the president's most reliable defenders in print media. The right-leaning news-aggregation website Drudge Report linked to the Post's story at the top of its site.

While the Post stopped short of saying the younger Trump broke the law, the publication did accuse the president's son of being "criminally stupid."

Read the editorial here »