Donald Trump Jr will testify publicly before Congress on 26 July. Paul Manafort, former chairman for the Trump campaign, will also testify alongside Trump Jr. A spokesman for Manafort told The Guardian:
We just received the letter and we’re reviewing it. We have nothing else to add.
This development comes right after the Russian lawyer, who met Donald Trump Jr after his father won the 2016 US Republican presidential nomination, said she is ready to testify to Congress. She added that this will be done in an attempt to dispel what she called "mass hysteria" about the encounter.
President Donald Trump's eldest son eagerly agreed in 2016 to meet Natalia Veselnitskaya, a woman he was told was a Russian government lawyer who might have damaging information about Democratic White House rival Hillary Clinton, according to emails released by Donald Trump Jr.
Veselnitskaya has previously said she is a private lawyer, that she never obtained damaging information about Clinton, and that she has no ties with the Kremlin. Veselnitskaya said in an interview with Russia's Kremlin-backed RT TV channel released late on Tuesday:
I’m ready to clarify the situation behind this mass hysteria – but only through lawyers or testifying in the Senate.
Russian officials have repeatedly denied US allegations that Moscow interfered in the presidential campaign to help Trump win the White House.
(With inputs from Reuters and The Guardian.)
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