Senate panel to release interviews with Trump Jr., others involved in meeting with Russian lawyer

[DonViejo]

Source: The Washington Post

By Karoun Demirjian January 25 at 11:17 AM

The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee plans to release transcripts of its interviews with President Trump’s son, Donald Trump Jr., and others who participated in a June 2016 meeting in Trump Tower with a Russian lawyer promising damaging information about Hillary Clinton.

Sen. Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa) said Thursday that the committee would start releasing “all witness interviews that we have done related to that meeting” right away and “get them out to the public for everyone to see,” as the panel’s interviews with “witnesses surrounding the Trump Tower meeting are complete.” Ranking member Dianne Feinstein (Calif.) said Thursday she was “delighted” by Grassley’s intentions, and “very grateful for your decision to proceed.”

The committee spoke with Trump Jr. in September, and in the last several months has also interviewed other participants in the Trump Tower meeting, including music promoter Rob Goldstone, Russian-American lobbyist Rinat Akhmetshin, U.S.-based Russian real estate company employee Ike Kaveladze, and Anatoli Samochornov, the translator for Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya, who answered the committee’s questions in writing.

The panel never spoke with President Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner, or with his former campaign manager Paul Manafort, both of whom also attended the Trump Tower meeting.

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[turbinetree]

1. Hey Grassley, was this asshole under oath? Nope, Nada, it was behind closed doors, it was a gab fest

So the fucking transcript really don't mean shit.

You can cherry pick whatever you want out of the "transcript" and just hand it out, just like old Nunes is trying to do. To make it look like the people that are trying to protect the country are making stuff up, you know the intelligence arm of the government, is being attacked by your fucking "Republican" party, the Russians, bots and trolls, trumptv, and other right wing outlets, because your "guy" and his lackeys, all of them, even in Congress are full of shit and just as corrupt...................

Whats really galling is the intimidation factor, that your president and your party (not my president or my party.......... ) are trying to accomplish with help from your party of deceit, against the FBI......................really, fuck you.........

The public see's how much your trying to undermine the special prosecutor and along with your fucking party basically trying to do the same thing, by handing out the paperwork, of shit, because it wasn't under oath.

I want this fucker and everyone else involved in this act of treason, conspiracy, to be brought out into the open and have a public hearing where he has, and everyone else has to raise (his or her) and their traitorous right hand and swear to tell the truth ........................

So, in essence jerk, try that for starters.................because after all your leader, the sexual predator keeps digging his own hole every day when he says that he will swear under oath to speak with the special prosecutor, now in two to three weeks (I can't wait)----------------I don't see that happening.

I see the 5th Amendment being invoked, and then he and your party of enablers are really fucked..............

[BigmanPigman]

2. If he doesn't release all of them maybe Feinstein will.