Donald Trump Jr. is scheduled to meet in private Thursday with the Senate Judiciary Committee for a long-awaited interview to discuss a 2016 meeting he arranged with a Kremlin-linked lawyer who promised damaging information about Hillary Clinton during the height of last year’s presidential campaign, according to Trump Jr.s’ attorney, Politico reports.
Trump Jr. was called to publicly testify before the Senate committee in July, but the president’s oldest son instead offered to conduct both a private interview and hand over documents for committee investigators.
Alan Futerfas, Trump Jr.’s attorney, confirmed in an email to Politico the interview would take place on Thursday.
“We look forward to a professional and productive meeting and appreciate the opportunity to assist the committee,” he wrote.
The Senate panel leaders, Chuck Grassley and Dianne Feinstein had issued a joint statement last week confirming the transcribed interview with Trump Jr. was imminent, though they didn’t mention the date.
“This meeting will be conducted under the same terms as previously announced,” the senators noted.
Trump Jr. is one of the many people in the president’s inner orbit caught up in the legal cross hairs for his role in the 2016 campaign and a broad federal law enforcement probe into potential collusion between Trump’s campaign and Russia.
Legal analysts said in July that Trump Jr. may be in violation of federal criminal statutes prohibiting solicitation or acceptance of anything of value from a foreign national, after disclosing he’d agreed to take a July 2016 meeting with a Russian attorney and lobbyist after being offered dirt on Clinton. The meeting was also attended by then-Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and Trump son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner.
Emails by Trump Jr. show the meeting’s broker, publicist Rob Goldstone, promising the information offer was “part of Russia and it’s government’s support for Mr. Trump.”
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