Trump’s son, Manafort seek private meeting
WASHINGTON — Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and the president’s son, Donald Trump Jr., have agreed to turn over documents to and testify behind closed doors before the Senate Judiciary Committee as part of its ongoing probe into alleged Russian interference in the 2016 election.
Committee Chairman Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, and ranking Democrat Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., still expect Manafort and Trump Jr. to speak to the committee publicly. But because both are cooperating, the panel leaders said in a statement that they would not issue subpoenas requiring their presence at a Wednesday hearing.
“Both Donald Trump, Jr. and Paul Manafort, through their attorneys, have agreed to negotiate and provide the committee with documents and be interviewed by committee members and staff prior to a public hearing,” they said in a statement.
The date for the closeddoor meeting has not yet been decided.
Documents sought
In letters to Trump Jr. and Manafort this week, the committee leaders asked them to furnish all documents related to a June 2016 meeting both participated in with a Kremlin-connected Russian lawyer who once represented Russian intelligence unit in a court dispute, as well as any commnications or records of attempts to obtain information from Russians about Hillary Clinton or the 2016 presidential campaign. Those documents are due to the committee by Aug. 2.
Financial updates
Also Friday, Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser, filed an amended financial disclosure that reflected his family’s sprawling real estate holdings — and the approval of the federal Office of Government Ethics.
At the same time, Ivanka Trump, the president’s daughter and Kushner’s wife, submitted her own financial disclosure form to OGE, according to copies of the documents obtained by Bloomberg News from a White House official. The agency hasn’t yet approved the document.
On her form, Ivanka Trump disclosed a business trust worth more than $50 million with underlying assets that include her trademarks and her jewelry and fashion lines. She also disclosed 10 assets underlying a real estate company, including interests in future hotels and golf courses in New York and a licensing deal for a hotel in India. She valued those assets between $5 million and $25 million. She also disclosed income of $529,590 from the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C.
Kushner’s 89-page disclosure reveals dozens of multimillion-dollar assets — reported in ranges of value. The form doesn’t begin to capture the full value of the Kushner family holdings, which are tied to $5.2 billion of assets and $2.9 billion of debt, according to data firm Real Capital Analytics.