Donald Trump Jr faces calls to testify before Senate over Russia meeting
Source: Guardian
Presidents son tweets he is happy to testify provide information on meeting with Russian lawyer who promised damaging information about Hillary Clinton
David Smith in Washington and Jon Swaine in New York
Monday 10 July 2017 15.16 EDT
Donald Trumps son is facing calls to testify before the US Senate about his meeting with a Russian lawyer who promised damaging information about Hillary Clinton during last years presidential election.
Trump Jr attended the meeting allegedly brokered by a British music publicist with Natalia Veselnitskaya, a lawyer who reportedly has ties to the Kremlin. Paul Manafort, who was the Trump campaigns chairman at the time, and Donald Trumps son-in-law Jared Kushner were also present.
The revelation, first reported by the New York Times, was the first public evidence that members of the Trump campaign were willing to accept Russian assistance. A senior Republican on the Senate intelligence committee demanded that Trump Jr appear on Capitol Hill and testify under oath.
Susan Collins of Maine told reporters that our intelligence committee needs to interview him and others who attended the meeting as part of its investigation into Russian interference in the presidential election. Adam Schiff, the top Democrat on the House intelligence committee, has made a similar demand.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jul/10/donald-trump-jr-russia-meeting-clinton-statements
riversedge
(70,182 posts)redwitch
(14,944 posts)Awful people!
Leghorn21
(13,524 posts)I'm keepin the faith in those "incidental intel collection recordings" (whatever they're called!!) I hear about now and then...
Plus flippers, flippin and singin for less prison time, that's a good one, too...
"Oath", not so much
riversedge
(70,182 posts)barbtries
(28,787 posts)if it's expedient he'll lie oath or no oath. the whole family is sociopathic
vkkv
(3,384 posts)Is it ??
marylandblue
(12,344 posts)Gore1FL
(21,126 posts)SHRED
(28,136 posts)...have Mueller get him under oath before a Grand Jury.
patricia92243
(12,595 posts)really happens. All the guys do is preen before the cameras. If it is a private hearing, something might get done.
marylandblue
(12,344 posts)For all we know, he has testified already, and this is just damage control.
BigmanPigman
(51,583 posts)His team knows what they are doing. I doubt Flynn needs to take the 5th too. Everyone knows they lie as easily as breathing. There must have a lot of real evidence needed to nail them all.
bucolic_frolic
(43,123 posts)A chip off the old block, the apple doesn't fall far from the tree, like father like son
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)No doubt in my mind...they COLLUDED with an enemy foreign nation to hack the election system and to harm a fellow American.
LOCK HIM UP. Seriously. That's a crime.
stuffmatters
(2,574 posts)Also wonder if McCain will be rolled in to silence Harris again.