Trump Jnr to testify in public on Russians

Washington

– Donald Trump Jnr will testify publicly before a congressional committee probing Russia’s meddling in the 2016 presidential campaign and possible collusion by his father’s campaign, a Democratic senator said on Sunday.

“Well, it will be this fall. I know that for sure,” Senator Dianne Feinstein, the ranking Democrat on the Senate judiciary committee, said in an interview with CNN.

It would be the first public tes- timony on the Russia affair by a member of President Donald Trump’s inner circle, and by no less a figure than his eldest son, the co-director of the family business. “Don Jnr” already has testified behind closed doors, answering questions by Senate judiciary committee investigators for five hours on September 7.

Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law, also testified behind closed doors in July.

But the lawmakers want the Trump insiders to publicly explain their contacts with Russians before and after the election. All have denied collusion.

In Trump’s son’s case, investigators are interested in a particular meeting he had in June 2016 at Trump Tower with a Russian lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya.

She had had been presented to Donald Jnr as a Russian government lawyer who could provide compromising information about Hillary Clinton. –