Sen. Collins: Intel Panel ‘Needs To Interview’ Trump Jr.

UNITED STATES - MARCH 2: Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, talks with reporters in the senate subway after a vote in the senate, March 2, 2017. (Photo By Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call) (CQ Roll Call via AP Images)
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A senior Republican on the Senate Intelligence committee says the panel should interview President Donald Trump’s eldest son about a meeting he and other Trump associates had last year with a Russian lawyer to hear information about former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

Sen. Susan Collins of Maine told reporters on Monday that “our intelligence committee needs to interview him and others who attended the meeting” as part of the panel’s probe into Russian interference in last year’s election and possible collusion between Russian officials and the Trump campaign.

Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner and then-campaign chairman Paul Manafort accompanied Donald Trump Jr. to the Trump Tower meeting with Kremlin-linked lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya.

Donald Trump Jr. said he was told the person he was to meet with might have information that would be “helpful” to the Trump campaign.

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  1. As long as its under oath, though i suspect that Jr’s memory will all of a sudden start to have issues.

  2. Wow, Sen Collins sounds … concerned.

  3. Avatar for krux krux says:

    Well, it looks like Jr.'s dance card is filling up fast.

    Jr.'s memory has proven quite questionable already over the past couple of days.

  4. Yes, she says that a lot, but its still a good thing to have a GOP senator calling for him and the others to talk to the senate about it, rather then them trying to brush it off.

  5. “…as part of the panel’s probe into Russian interference in last year’s election and possible collusion between Russian officials and the Trump campaign.”

    The dunce has now admitted collusion.

    Publicly.

    Repeatedly.

    He’s like a crackhead on a bender with a Twitter account.

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