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Donald Trump Jr meets with US senators for fresh grilling
WASHINGTON, June 12, 2019 (BSS/AFP) – Donald Trump Jr returned to Congress
Wednesday to face questions likely to focus on his contacts with Russians, as
the president’s eldest son insisted he has “nothing to correct” from his 2017
testimony.
The 41-year-old will testify behind closed door for up to four hours before
members of the Senate Intelligence Committee as part of the Republican-led
panel’s two-year investigation of Russia’s interference in the 2016 US
presidential election.
Trump Jr, who helms the Trump Organization collection of businesses that
was run for decades by his real estate billionaire father, faced a barrage of
questions as he strode into the hearing room, including whether he was going
to alter his testimony from two years ago.
“No,” he said quickly, before adding: “Nothing to correct.”
Trump Jr will undoubtedly face scrutiny for his role in arranging a Trump
Tower meeting in June 2016 that included a Russian lawyer offering dirt on
Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.
“If it’s what you say I love it,” Trump Jr had written in response to a
2016 email offering the information in a meeting, according to a transcript
released last year by the Senate Judiciary Committee, which was conducting a
parallel investigation.
Some Democrats suspect he may have lied about what he and his father knew
about the now-infamous meeting, as well as other connections between the
Trump campaign and Russia.
Trump Jr had also appeared before the Senate Intelligence Committee, and
that panel’s Republican chairman, Senator Richard Burr, faced criticism from
within his party for calling Trump Jr to appear a second time, due to
apparent discrepancies between his original 2017 testimony and that of other
witnesses.
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