Special Counsel Robert Mueller has asked the White House hold onto all documents that relate to a June 2016 meeting between Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner, Paul Manafort and people tied to Russia, according to a report Friday.
Mueller advised the White House in a Wednesday letter about a forthcoming formal document preservation request. The notice referred to “any subjects discussed in the course of the June 2016 meeting” and also “any decisions made regarding the recent disclosures about the June 2016 meeting,” according to a CNN report on the document.
“As you are aware the Special Counsel’s office is investigating the Russian government’s efforts to interfere in the 2016 presidential election, including any links or coordination between the Russian government and individuals associated with the campaign of Donald Trump. Information concerning the June 2016 meeting between Donald J Trump Jr and Natalia Veselnitskaya is relevant to the investigation,” the letter stated.
Text messages, emails, notes, voicemails, or other communications are all required to be saved under a preservation request.
Trump Jr. set up the meeting with the help of Rob Goldstone. The eldest Trump son released a handful of pages of emails on Twitter last week in an attempt to show transparency, but after it became clear the emails were about to be published. He and the administration were later criticized for not initially sharing that there were eight people at the meeting.
