Only the Good Lord knows what was going through Donald Trump Jr.’s mind when he decided to publish the email chain between himself and lawyer Rob Goldstone on Tuesday, willingly revealing his knowledge of the Russian government’s involvement in a meeting he took last June at the promise of opposition research on Hillary Clinton. That involvement, as anybody who’s read news reports of the meeting likely knows, seems to constitute a violation of federal election statutes that prohibit campaigns from accepting anything of value from foreign nationals.

The emails released by Trump Jr. clearly show he went to the meeting for the express purpose of obtaining information on Clinton that he knew was to be provided as “part of Russia and its government’s support” for his father. In other words, it looks a lot like the president’s son just voluntarily published documents that seem to prove the Trump campaign violated federal law.