Trump Jr., Manafort and Kouchner will testify in Congress

Jared Kushner.
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The eldest son of US President Donald Trump, the former head of his campaign headquarters, Paul Manafort, as well as senior adviser to the White House and President’s son-in-law Jared Kushner on July 24 and 26 will testify in the Senate about a meeting with Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya in the summer of 2016.

This is stated in the message press servicess Committee on the judiciary.

The hearings will be held in two different Senate committees. The Committee on Judiciary will hear Donald Trump Jr. and Manafort 26 July, the hearing will be open.

July 24 Senate Intelligence Committee will hear Kushner’s testimony in closed hearings, reports The Washington Post.

The request of the Committee on Judicial Affairs to hear Trump Jr. and Manafort in a public meeting was approved by Special Prosecutor Robert Muller, who is investigating Russia's interference in the US presidential election in 2016.

Kouchner's lawyer, Abbe Lowell, said that his client had voluntarily agreed to speak on an intelligence committee and was ready to cooperate with the investigation.

Recall 9 July it became known that in the summer of 2016, the son and son of Donald Trump, as well as the then head of his campaign headquarters met with a Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya.

According to Trump Jr., the meeting was organized by his friends; the lawyer initially promised to provide compromising on Clintonbut focused the conversation on Magnitsky’s list and the adoption program of Russian children by Americans.

Later it became known that the meeting was organized by music publisher Rob Goldstone at the request of Russian singer Emin Agalarov.

July 11 Donald Trump Jr made public the correspondence concerning this meeting. From the published correspondence it follows that Rob Goldstone told Trump Jr. about the presence of compromising documents about the connection of Hillary Clinton with Russia, and the meeting with Veselnitskaya concerned these particular data.

Veselnitskaya claims no one passed on Clinton to her., and they considered the topic of the meeting to be Magnitsky’s list and the adoption program for Russian children in the United States.

Later it turned out that one of the participants in the meeting was also a 52-year-old businessman, a native of Russia, and now an American citizen Irakli Kaveladze.

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