Trump Jr., Manafort To Testify Before Senate Panel Next Week

Donald Trump Jr., son of President-elect Donald Trump, walks from the elevator at Trump Tower, Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2016, in New York. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
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President Donald Trump’s eldest son and former campaign chairman are slated to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee next week.

Donald Trump Jr. and Paul Manafort are among the big-ticket names now expected at a July 26 hearing as part of that panel’s probe into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election and the foreign dealings of a number of the President’s associates.

Trump Jr. recently made a raft of headlines for his previously undisclosed participation in a June 2016 Trump Tower meeting that was explicitly billed as a Russian government effort to help his father’s campaign. Manafort, who also attended the meeting, has long been under investigation by authorities for his work on behalf of a pro-Russian Ukrainian political party and his complex web of real estate dealings.

Another individual with ties to the attendees at the Trump Tower meeting is also expected to testify: William Browder, a London-based businessman, has lobbied for sanctions legislation that some of the Russian attendees at the meeting have worked to roll back.

The committee’s ranking Democrat, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), confirmed to CNN on Tuesday that special counsel Robert Mueller had cleared Manafort and Trump Jr. to testify publicly.

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  1. Why Judiciary and not Intelligence?

  2. I wonder how cocky Jr. will act during his testimony.

  3. Avatar for krux krux says:

    Ding. Ding. Ding. We have a winner. Judiciary got Jr first.

    And we get to see two types of liars on full display to compare and contrast styles:

    Manafort with the traditional form of crafty lies

    vs.

    Jr. with the currently popular form of blatant lie with a blank stare.

    Actually we will all get to see if “Jr-lying-under-oath” looks any different than “Jr-lying-in-general”.

  4. I am betting a number of questions go unanswered under the blanket of “kinda sorta Executive Privilege lemme ask the President if it’s okay to talk about it”.

  5. I heard Malcolm Nance say that they could be walking into a perjury trap. If what they say under oath to the committee doesn’t exactly match what they said to Moeller or the FBI they are even more screwed.

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