Apop star, a music publicist, and the President’s son walk into a bar. The punchline is the ironic fact that the son’s emails might be the thing that sends this house of cards tumbling down.The recent revelations about Donald Trump Jr.’s June 2016 email correspondence with British publicist Rob Goldstone suggest that he entertained an offer of Russian government help in order to aid his father in getting elected. This news has changed practically every hour since it broke a few days ago. From swearing that no meetings “were set up” with the Russians to emails that show Trump Jr. professing his love for potentially damaging information about Hillary Clinton, the current information has left us with more questions than answers.What we know for sure is this: the meeting set up as a result of the emails places an important puzzle piece in the timeline of the Trump-Russia scandal — and it wasn’t Jr.’s first time at this rodeo.
