Trump's son gives his father's critics the smoking gun they were looking for

Let there be no doubt: it’s turning into the political equivalent of Defcon 1, the highest level of nuclear alert, for the Trump administration.

There can be no greater irony than that Donald Trump, who thundered about Hillary Clinton’s secret email server during the election campaign, could be undone by an email disseminated by his own son. Donald Trump Junior, who has recently hired a former mob lawyer to represent him, revealed on Twitter (shortly before the New York Times ran a story detailing his efforts to gather dirt on Hillary Clinton) the lengthy email chain between him and the publicist Rob Goldstone. Those epistolary efforts reveal that, despite President Trump’s and his paladin’s repeated denials of contacts with Russia during the campaign, Trump, Jnr. actively solicited them. He was told that the Kremlin wanted to lend a helping hand. A farrago of sordid characters would be involved. His response: “If it’s what you say I love it.”