Report: Trump Jr., Kushner, And Manafort Scheduled To Testify Before The Senate Next Week
- 7 years ago
Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner, and Paul Manafort have been scheduled to testify before the Senate next week.
The key attendees of Donald Trump Jr.’s controversial meeting with a Russian lawyer during the campaign are reportedly slated to testify before lawmakers next week.
As a CBS News tweet reported Wednesday, “Jared Kushner to testify before Senate [Intelligence Committee] on July 24; [Paul] Manafort, Trump Jr. to testify before Senate Judiciary [Committee] on July 26.”
The Judiciary Committee’s website shows that President Trump’s son and Manafort, Trump’s former campaign chairman, will be testifying on Panel II that day.
Committee chairman Senator Chuck Grassley reportedly indicated last week that he would be asking Trump Jr. and Manafort to appear on Capitol Hill, saying that the meeting “raised a lot of questions.”
Meanwhile, according to ABC News, the hearing for Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser, will be closed to the public.
An attorney for Kushner told ABC News, “As Mr. Kushner has been saying since March, he has been and is prepared to voluntarily cooperate and provide whatever information he has on the investigations to Congress...He will continue to cooperate and appreciates the opportunity to assist in putting this matter to rest.”
The New York Times, which originally broke the story about the June 2016 meeting, called it “the first public indication that at least some in the [Trump] campaign were willing to accept Russian help.”
It is unknown if the Russian lawyer involved in the controversy, Natalia Veselnitskaya, will also be called to testify before U.S. lawmakers though she has reportedly offered to do so.
The key attendees of Donald Trump Jr.’s controversial meeting with a Russian lawyer during the campaign are reportedly slated to testify before lawmakers next week.
As a CBS News tweet reported Wednesday, “Jared Kushner to testify before Senate [Intelligence Committee] on July 24; [Paul] Manafort, Trump Jr. to testify before Senate Judiciary [Committee] on July 26.”
The Judiciary Committee’s website shows that President Trump’s son and Manafort, Trump’s former campaign chairman, will be testifying on Panel II that day.
Committee chairman Senator Chuck Grassley reportedly indicated last week that he would be asking Trump Jr. and Manafort to appear on Capitol Hill, saying that the meeting “raised a lot of questions.”
Meanwhile, according to ABC News, the hearing for Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser, will be closed to the public.
An attorney for Kushner told ABC News, “As Mr. Kushner has been saying since March, he has been and is prepared to voluntarily cooperate and provide whatever information he has on the investigations to Congress...He will continue to cooperate and appreciates the opportunity to assist in putting this matter to rest.”
The New York Times, which originally broke the story about the June 2016 meeting, called it “the first public indication that at least some in the [Trump] campaign were willing to accept Russian help.”
It is unknown if the Russian lawyer involved in the controversy, Natalia Veselnitskaya, will also be called to testify before U.S. lawmakers though she has reportedly offered to do so.