Courtesy of the AP:Susan Collins on Don Jr.: "Our intelligence committee needs to interview him and others who attended the meeting." https://t.co/kecgMISPmO http://pic.twitter.com/QZH1zSmutw— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) July 10, 2017
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.
Junior says bring it on:
Oh yes, this is a GREAT idea!Happy to work with the committee to pass on what I know. https://t.co/tL47NOoteM— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) July 10, 2017
Literally every time this smarmy POS opens his mouth he makes things even worse.
Must be a family trait.
I'm not so sure that Junior is as cavalier about all of this as he would like us to believe. Especially since he lawyered up almost immediately.
Just to help things along MSNBC has put together an updated timeline:
- June 7: The 2016 primary season essentially concludes, with both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton as the presumptive party nominees
- June 9: Donald Trump Jr. — along with Jared Kushner and former campaign chair Paul Manafort — meets with Kremlin-connected lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya.
- June 9: Trump tweets about Clinton’s missing 33,000 emails
- July 18: Washington Post reports, on the first day of the GOP convention, that the Trump campaign changed the Republican platform to ensure that it didn’t call for giving weapons to Ukraine to fight Russian and rebel forces
- July 21: GOP convention concludes with Trump giving his speech accepting the Republican nomination
- July 22: WikiLeaks releases stolen emails from the Democratic National Committee
- July 25: Democratic convention begins
- July 27: In final news conference of his 2016 campaign, Trump asks Russia: “If you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing”
- August 4: Obama CIA Director John Brennan confronts his Russian counterpart about Russia’s interference. “[I] told him if you go down this road, it's going to have serious consequences, not only for the bilateral relationship, but for our ability to work with Russia on any issue, because it is an assault on our democracy,” Brennan said on “Meet the Press” yesterday.
- October 4: WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange says his organization will publish emails related to the 2016 campaign
- October 7: Department of Homeland Security and the Director of National Intelligence release a statement directly saying that Russia is interfering in the 2016 election
- October 7: WikiLeaks begins releasing Clinton Campaign Chair John Podesta’s emails
- October 31: “This WikiLeaks is like a treasure trove,” Trump says on the campaign trail
- November 4: “Boy, I love reading those WikiLeaks,” Trump says from Ohio.
Why do I get the feeling that Trump Jr. is about to add even more pieces to the puzzle?
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