Donald Trump Jr. and former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort will testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee on July 26, Reuters is reporting.
Jared Kushner, senior advisor to President Donald Trump, will also testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee in a closed session on July 24.
Trump Jr. has been criticized for taking a meeting with a Russian lawyer, with the promise of receiving damaging information on Hillary Clinton.
On June 9, 2016, a meeting was held in Trump Tower in New York City between three senior members of the presidential campaign of Donald Trump – Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner, and Paul Manafort – and at least five other people, including Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya. The meeting was arranged by publicist Rob Goldstone on behalf of Emin Agalarov; The Trumps knew both Goldstone and the Agalarovs from the Miss Universe 2013 pageant in Moscow.
The meeting was disclosed to U.S. government officials when Jared Kushner filed a revised version of his security clearance form. Unlike Kushner, Trump Jr. and Manafort were not required to disclose foreign contacts because as they did not subsequently serve in the Trump administration they did not require security clearance.
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