Donald Trump Jr. said Monday that he is willing to meet with the Senate Intelligence Committee and any other committee to discuss his meeting last year with a Russian lawyer who offered damaging information about Hillary Clinton.
Trump Jr. made his availability known in a tweet while responding to comments from Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, who wants him to meet with the Senate Intelligence Committee.
“Happy to work with the committee to pass on what I know,” Trump Jr. wrote.
Happy to work with the committee to pass on what I know. https://t.co/tL47NOoteM
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) July 10, 2017
The meeting with Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya between Trump Jr., Jared Kushner, and then-Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort took place in June 2016, soon after Trump effectively wrapped up the Republican nomination.
Earlier Monday, Collins told reporters that Trump Jr., and the others who attended the meeting should discuss the contents of the meeting with the committee. “Our intelligence committee needs to interview him and others who attended the meeting,” Collins said.
News of the meeting initially emerged on Saturday, but news that Trump Jr. met with Veselnitskaya, a lawyer with ties to the Kremlin, on the premise that they had damaging info about Clinton was reported Sunday by The New York Times.
