Twitter is abuzz following Donald Trump Jr's publication of emails showing how he agreed to meet a Kremlin-linked lawyer to discuss compromising information on Hillary Clinton, apparently offered as part of the Russian government's "support" for his father.
The emails, released on Trump Jr's Twitter shortly before they were published by the New York Times, also implicate the President's then-campaign manager Paul Manafort and his son-in-law, senior White House adviser Jared Kushner, both of whom attended the meeting with lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya
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