Donald Trump Jr. releases emails leading up to meeting with Russian attorney, because apparently there was not yet enough evidence of collusion. Update!

Here's my statement and the full email chain pic.twitter.com/x050r5n5LQ

— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) July 11, 2017

Here is page 4 (which did not post due to space constraints). pic.twitter.com/z1Xi4nr2gq

— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) July 11, 2017

Courtesy of Reuters:

Presidential candidate Donald Trump's eldest son eagerly agreed last year to meet a woman he was told was a Russian government lawyer who might have information incriminating Democratic rival Hillary Clinton as part of Russian government support for his father, according to an email chain released on Tuesday. 

The email chain was between Donald Trump Jr., who posted it on Twitter, and Rob Goldstone, a publicist who helped to arrange the June 9, 2016 meeting with Natalia Veselnitskaya, who says she is a private lawyer and denies having Kremlin ties. 

The disclosures in the email chain could provide ammunition for U.S. investigators probing whether there was collusion between the Kremlin and Trump’s Republican presidential campaign following a U.S. intelligence conclusion that Moscow sought to hurt Clinton and help Trump in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. 

"The Crown prosecutor of Russia ... offered to provide the Trump campaign with some official documents and information that would incriminate Hillary and her dealings with Russia and would be very useful to your father," said the June 3, 2016, email to Trump Jr. from publicist Rob Goldstone. 

"This is obviously very high level and sensitive information but is part of Russia and its government's support for Mr. Trump," according to the email posted by Trump Jr. on Twitter. 

"If it's what you say I love it especially later in the summer," Trump Jr. partly replied in the exchange, which he said represented the entire chain of his emails about the meeting.

On the top subject line of this first email says quite clearly, "Russia-Clinton-private and confidential."

That alone would have given just about anybody with half a brain pause. But not Junior!

"If it's what you say I love it!"

And by the time he got to the part about the "Crown prosecutor of Russia...to provide Trump campaign with information that would incriminate Hillary," followed quickly by, "This is obviously very high level and sensitive information but is part of Russia and its government's support for Mr. Trump -- helped along by Aras and Emin," he should have pushed himself away from the keyboard and called the Trump IT guys to scrub his computer clean of any mention of the emails and have this Goldstone dude removed from his list of addresses.

The fact that he didn't backs up that lawyer's assertion that: 

“It is quite possible that maybe they were longing for such an information. They wanted it so badly that they could only hear the thought that they wanted.”

In other words what are illegal and unethical behaviors if you can possibly get your hands on dirt to use against your enemies?

Okay agreeing to meet with a Russian agent, with the promise of receiving Russian government attained information on your father's political opponent, during a presidential campaign.

Is there any way that this is NOT considered collusion?

Update: Here was a statement released by Donald Trump Jr. after he released these emails:  

To everyone, in order to be totally transparent, I am releasing the entire email chain of my emails with Rob Goldstone about the meeting on June 9, 2016. The first email on June 3, 2016 was from Rob, who was relating a request from Emin, a person I knew from the 2013 Ms. Universe Pageant near Moscow. Emin and his father have a very highly respected company in Moscow. The information they suggested they had about Hillary Clinton I thought was Political Opposition Research. I first wanted to just have a phone call but when that didn't work out, they said the woman would be in New York and asked if I would meet. I decided to take the meeting. The woman, as she has said publicly, was not a government official. And, as we have said, she had no information to provide and wanted to talk about adoption policy and the Magnitsky Act. To put this in context, this occurred before the current Russian fever was in vogue. As Rob Goldstone said just today in the press, the entire meeting was “the most inane nonsense l ever heard. And I was actually agitated by it.”

As crazy as it sounds I really think that Junior thinks this is helping him.

By the way today Sarah Sanders-Huckabee answered questions, off camera of course, and to questions about this meeting and these emails she said they needed to contact Junior's attorney.

I think they might finally have started to realize what a huge deal this is turning out to be.