Donald Trump, Jr. is now deeply embroiled in the Russian Connection thanks to a string of New York Times stories that appear to have him on the ropes. So, "in the interest of transparency" and because he is apparently the GOB Bluth of the Trump clan, Junior posted an email that appears to detail how he agreed to a meeting in June 2016 with a "Russian government lawyer" who claimed she would provide damaging material on Hillary Clinton:

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Here's my statement and the full email chain pic.twitter.com/x050r5n5LQ — Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) July 11, 2017

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Here is page 4 (which did not post due to space constraints). pic.twitter.com/z1Xi4nr2gq — Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) July 11, 2017

Surely Robert Mueller, the Justice Department special counsel examining whether members of the Trump campaign colluded with Russian officials to meddle in the 2016 election to benefit Donald Trump the Elder, appreciates Junior's transparency here. Luckily, his email subject made it very easy to find:

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Subject line of emails Donald Trump Jr. released relating to meeting with Russian lawyer: “Russia - Clinton - private and confidential” pic.twitter.com/sBxWD5RIEk — ABC News (@ABC) July 11, 2017

Meanwhile, the analyses of just how bad this is have started to roll in:

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This is the dumbest and biggest crime in the history of American politics. There's not even a close second. — Jared Yates Sexton (@JYSexton) July 11, 2017

Jack Holmes Politics Editor Jack Holmes is the Politics Editor at Esquire, where he writes daily and edits the Politics Blog with Charles P Pierce.

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