Journalist: I Worked On This Story For A Year And Trump Jr. Just Tweeted It Out!

Donald Trump Jr. talks to reporters while campaigning for his father, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, at the Tilt'n Diner Sunday, Feb. 7, 2016, in Tilton, N.H. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
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An independent journalist, who said he spent a year chasing the story about Donald Trump Jr. meeting with a Kremlin-linked lawyer to get information that would help his father’s campaign, launched a tweet-storm after Trump Jr. released the email chain that lead up to the Russia meeting.

Jared Yates Sexton, who has been published in the New York Times, Politico and The New Republic, called the story the “dumbest and biggest crime in the history of American politics” and said Trump Jr. “just released the smoking gun.”

He lamented the fact that he had spent a full year chasing the story and the President’s son “just hit tweet.”

Trump Jr.’s tweets came moments before the New York Times published a piece outlining the contents of the emails, which confirm that the President’s son took the meeting in order to get information about Hillary Clinton’s dealings with Russia that would help his father’s campaign.

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