Manafort also attended the meeting with Veselnitskaya and Trump Jr. and Paul Manafort if they refuse to testify before the committee voluntarily at its upcoming Wednesday hearing on the Trump Tower meeting, CNN reports. Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) has threatened to subpoena Donald Trump, Jr. Though Veselnitskaya has denied ever acting as an agent of the Russian government, Reuters reports that she represented the Russian FSB spy agency in a property dispute from 2005 through 2013. and figures linked to the Kremlin, including the Russian attorney Natalia Veselnitskaya.
The president has expressed frustration over the fact that the Mueller probe may delve deeply into Trump and his associates’ financial dealings.Īdditionally, Mueller has asked White House staff to preserve all documents related to the June 2016 meeting between Donald Trump, Jr. Trump has reportedly asked his advisers about his ability to pardon members of his administration, his family, and even himself, though two sources said these discussions are purely theoretical. The New York Times describes how Trump’s lawyers and aides have been combing through the backgrounds of Mueller’s team in the hopes of getting them-or even Mueller himself-recused from the investigation. Members of President Donald Trump’s legal team are exploring ways to undermine special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia in the 2016 election, The Washington Post reports this morning.
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