而且在一小时之内。
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据说是短射。
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以前也有过这个话题的报道。自由的美国太好玩儿了!
(CNN) Speaker Nancy Pelosi recently offered a very blunt assessment of what Democrats need to do in 2020 to ensure a peaceful transition of power in Washington: Win "big."
Recalling her mindset in advance of the 2018 midterms, Pelosi told the New York Times:
"If we win by four seats, by a thousand votes each, he's not going to respect the election. [Trump] would poison the public mind. He would challenge each of the races; he would say you can't seat these people," she added. "We had to win. Imagine if we hadn't won — oh, don't even imagine. So, as we go forward, we have to have the same approach."
That might sound like exaggeration from Pelosi -- an attempt to gin up her base in advance of the 2020 presidential election. It isn't.
Since the moment he won the White House in November 2016, Trump has shown a willingness -- actually more of a proclivity -- to entertain the idea that there is some sort of broad conspiracy aimed at trying to disenfranchise conservative voters.
Less than a month after his 2016 victory, Trump launched this Twitter tirade:
"In addition to winning the Electoral College in a landslide, I won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally It would have been much easier for me to win the so-called popular vote than the Electoral College in that I would only campaign in 3 or 4 states instead of the 15 states that I visited. I would have won even more easily and convincingly (but smaller states are forgotten)!"
Trump didn't then -- and hasn't since -- offered any evidence for that claim. (He lost the popular vote to Hillary Clinton by just under 3 million, the largest popular vote deficit ever for a president who won the Electoral College but lost the popular vote.) He convened a commission to study alleged election fraud -- of which study after study has shown simply doesn't exist in any sort of widespread manner -- but eventually disbanded it.
What Trump hasn't abandoned is his belief that -- some how, some way -- Republicans (and him in particular) aren't getting a fair shake in these elections.
"In many places the same person in California votes many times," Trump said at the official White House event in West Virginia on tax cuts in April 2018. "They always like to say, 'Oh that's a conspiracy theory.' It's not a conspiracy theory. Millions and millions of people and it's very hard because the state guards their records." (He offered no proof to back up this claim.)
Earlier this year, speaking at a fundraiser for the House Republican campaign arm, Trump again raised the specter that his side was being cheated. "We've gotta watch those vote tallies. You know, I keep hearing about the election and the various counting measures that they have." He added that Democrats won all of the close elections in 2018; "There's something going on," he said, telling the assembled lawmakers that they needed to "be a little bit more paranoid than you are, OK?" (He offered no proof to back up this claim.)
The point here is that Trump has a long record of making wholly unsubstantiated claims about election results. And that includes doing so in an election -- 2016 -- in which he won!
It's not much of a stretch then to imagine that Trump, if he does come up short in the 2020 election, wouldn't be willing to simply go quietly into that good night. For Trump, refusing to admit defeat and hand over power voluntarily would be the final sacred cow he could slaughter. He's built a political career on a willingness to break with long-held traditions, the venerated elements of our capital "D" democracy that have long distinguished us from the rest of the world. Trump scoffs at all that sort of stuff, the trappings, he would argue, of an arcane system put in place by elites who can't channel the will of the people like he can.
If you think that's overstating things, it's worth noting that Trump has repeatedly "joked" about changing the Constitution to allow him to serve more than two terms as president.
Last month, in accepting a gift from the Wounded Warrior Project, Trump "joked":
"Well, this is really beautiful. This will find a permanent place, at least for six years, in the Oval Office. Is that OK? I was going to joke, General, and say at least for 10 or 14 years, but we would cause bedlam if I said that, so we'll say six."
In a closed-door speech to Republican donors last year in Florida, Trump said this of Chinese President Xi Jinping: "He's now president for life. President for life. No, he's great. And look, he was able to do that. I think it's great. Maybe we'll have to give that a shot some day."
And then there was this "joke" from Trump in a speech to Members of Congress touting his tax law in 2018:
"We're cutting record numbers of regulations — we've cut more regulations in a year and a quarter than any administration whether it's four years, eight years, or in one case 16 years," Trump said. "Should we go back to 16 years? Should we do that? Congressman can we do that?"
HA HA HA HA...wait a minute.
In fact, Trump appears to already be laying the rational for an election challenge -- or at least the lack of a concession -- if he loses next November.
"Despite the tremendous success that I have had as President, including perhaps the greatest ECONOMY and most successful first two years of any President in history, they have stolen two years of my (our) Presidency (Collusion Delusion) that we will never be able to get back,
he tweeted Sunday night. "The Witch Hunt is over but we will never forget. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!"
Now, close your eyes and imagine this: Trump narrowly loses -- by 20-ish electoral votes -- in 2020. He refuses to concede, insists there has been widespread election fraud and notes that Democrats (and the media) have been trying to steal from him since he was elected in 2016.
Doesn't seem all that outlandish, does it?
(CNN) Speaker Nancy Pelosi recently offered a very blunt assessment of what Democrats need to do in 2020 to ensure a peaceful transition of power in Washington: Win "big."
Recalling her mindset in advance of the 2018 midterms, Pelosi told the New York Times:
"If we win by four seats, by a thousand votes each, he's not going to respect the election. [Trump] would poison the public mind. He would challenge each of the races; he would say you can't seat these people," she added. "We had to win. Imagine if we hadn't won — oh, don't even imagine. So, as we go forward, we have to have the same approach."
That might sound like exaggeration from Pelosi -- an attempt to gin up her base in advance of the 2020 presidential election. It isn't.
Since the moment he won the White House in November 2016, Trump has shown a willingness -- actually more of a proclivity -- to entertain the idea that there is some sort of broad conspiracy aimed at trying to disenfranchise conservative voters.
Less than a month after his 2016 victory, Trump launched this Twitter tirade:
"In addition to winning the Electoral College in a landslide, I won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally It would have been much easier for me to win the so-called popular vote than the Electoral College in that I would only campaign in 3 or 4 states instead of the 15 states that I visited. I would have won even more easily and convincingly (but smaller states are forgotten)!"
Trump didn't then -- and hasn't since -- offered any evidence for that claim. (He lost the popular vote to Hillary Clinton by just under 3 million, the largest popular vote deficit ever for a president who won the Electoral College but lost the popular vote.) He convened a commission to study alleged election fraud -- of which study after study has shown simply doesn't exist in any sort of widespread manner -- but eventually disbanded it.
What Trump hasn't abandoned is his belief that -- some how, some way -- Republicans (and him in particular) aren't getting a fair shake in these elections.
"In many places the same person in California votes many times," Trump said at the official White House event in West Virginia on tax cuts in April 2018. "They always like to say, 'Oh that's a conspiracy theory.' It's not a conspiracy theory. Millions and millions of people and it's very hard because the state guards their records." (He offered no proof to back up this claim.)
Earlier this year, speaking at a fundraiser for the House Republican campaign arm, Trump again raised the specter that his side was being cheated. "We've gotta watch those vote tallies. You know, I keep hearing about the election and the various counting measures that they have." He added that Democrats won all of the close elections in 2018; "There's something going on," he said, telling the assembled lawmakers that they needed to "be a little bit more paranoid than you are, OK?" (He offered no proof to back up this claim.)
The point here is that Trump has a long record of making wholly unsubstantiated claims about election results. And that includes doing so in an election -- 2016 -- in which he won!
It's not much of a stretch then to imagine that Trump, if he does come up short in the 2020 election, wouldn't be willing to simply go quietly into that good night. For Trump, refusing to admit defeat and hand over power voluntarily would be the final sacred cow he could slaughter. He's built a political career on a willingness to break with long-held traditions, the venerated elements of our capital "D" democracy that have long distinguished us from the rest of the world. Trump scoffs at all that sort of stuff, the trappings, he would argue, of an arcane system put in place by elites who can't channel the will of the people like he can.
If you think that's overstating things, it's worth noting that Trump has repeatedly "joked" about changing the Constitution to allow him to serve more than two terms as president.
Last month, in accepting a gift from the Wounded Warrior Project, Trump "joked":
"Well, this is really beautiful. This will find a permanent place, at least for six years, in the Oval Office. Is that OK? I was going to joke, General, and say at least for 10 or 14 years, but we would cause bedlam if I said that, so we'll say six."
In a closed-door speech to Republican donors last year in Florida, Trump said this of Chinese President Xi Jinping: "He's now president for life. President for life. No, he's great. And look, he was able to do that. I think it's great. Maybe we'll have to give that a shot some day."
And then there was this "joke" from Trump in a speech to Members of Congress touting his tax law in 2018:
"We're cutting record numbers of regulations — we've cut more regulations in a year and a quarter than any administration whether it's four years, eight years, or in one case 16 years," Trump said. "Should we go back to 16 years? Should we do that? Congressman can we do that?"
HA HA HA HA...wait a minute.
In fact, Trump appears to already be laying the rational for an election challenge -- or at least the lack of a concession -- if he loses next November.
"Despite the tremendous success that I have had as President, including perhaps the greatest ECONOMY and most successful first two years of any President in history, they have stolen two years of my (our) Presidency (Collusion Delusion) that we will never be able to get back,
he tweeted Sunday night. "The Witch Hunt is over but we will never forget. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!"
Now, close your eyes and imagine this: Trump narrowly loses -- by 20-ish electoral votes -- in 2020. He refuses to concede, insists there has been widespread election fraud and notes that Democrats (and the media) have been trying to steal from him since he was elected in 2016.
Doesn't seem all that outlandish, does it?
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美国370名前法律工作者（共和党和保守党）联合发表声明：如果Trump不是总统，穆勒报告里的行为足以把他送进监狱。。。
看来美国也不是很“民主”，“王子”犯法，也不与庶民同罪。。。
https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...946a1a-7006-11e9-9f06-5fc2ee80027a_story.html
看来美国也不是很“民主”，“王子”犯法，也不与庶民同罪。。。
https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...946a1a-7006-11e9-9f06-5fc2ee80027a_story.html
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明摆着的事儿啊。调查把那么多人送进监狱了。
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Big Loser, or Tax Fraud?
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/05/07/us/politics/donald-trump-taxes.html
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/05/07/us/politics/donald-trump-taxes.html
Senate Intelligence Committee subpoenas Donald Trump Jr.
By Kara Scannell, Jeremy Herb and Manu Raju, CNN
Updated 6:33 PM ET, Wed May 8, 2019
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Source: CNN
Trump Jr. subpoenaed by GOP-controlled Senate committee 01:39
Washington (CNN)The Senate Intelligence Committee has subpoenaed Donald Trump Jr. for him to return and testify again, and the committee is now at a standoff with President Donald Trump's eldest son, according to sources familiar with the matter.
One option Trump Jr. is considering in response to the subpoena is to invoke his Fifth Amendment rights, and another is just to not appear at all, according to one source. The subpoena from the Republican-led Senate Intelligence panel is believed to be the first issued to one of Trump's family members.
Discussions for Trump Jr.'s testimony began several weeks ago before special counsel Robert Mueller's report was released, the sources say. Trump Jr.'s team resisted giving testimony, in part, because the findings of the Mueller report were still not known.
Trump invokes executive privilege over Mueller report
During the negotiations, the idea to use written questions and answers was floated, and at another time it was proposed that Trump Jr. sit for an untranscribed interview, according to one source.
The subpoena for Trump Jr.'s testimony marks an escalation of the Senate Intelligence Committee's probe into Russian election interreference. The panel's investigation, led by GOP Sen. Richard Burr of North Carolina, has been running for more than two years, and the committee has interviewed many of the same witnesses who spoke to Mueller's team. The committee has recently begun re-interviewing witnesses, including Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, who appeared for a second time earlier this year.
A source close to Trump Jr. said in a statement Wednesday that when Trump Jr. testified in 2017, there was an agreement "that he would only have to come in and testify a single time as long as he was willing to stay for as long as they'd like, which Don did."
"Don continues to cooperate by producing documents and is willing to answer written questions, but no lawyer would ever agree to allow their client to participate in what is an obvious PR stunt from a so-called 'Republican' senator too cowardly to stand up to his boss Mark Warner and the rest of the resistance Democrats on the committee," the source said.
Trump Jr.'s position on testifying again hardened after the Mueller report was released, according to one of the sources. The report stated that the special counsel's team explored charging Trump Jr. and other campaign officials with campaign finance violations for the meeting they took with a Russian lawyer offering dirt on Hillary Clinton in 2016 but ultimately declined because they could not place a value on the materials offered and could not establish Trump Jr. knew he might be violating the law. Mueller's team also did not establish that there was a conspiracy between Russians and members of the Trump campaign, which Trump allies have used to embolden their position that the investigation was a "witch hunt."
Axios first reported the subpoena.
There are multiple issues that the Senate panel is likely interested in asking Trump Jr. about, as he's one of the witnesses that the committee's top Democrat, Sen. Mark Warner, has suggested should return to the committee for additional questioning.
Michael Cohen called himself 'a man all alone' ahead of imprisonment, recording shows
Trump Jr. has already testified under oath in 2017 before both the House and Senate intelligence committees and the Senate Judiciary Committee. The Senate Judiciary Committee released the transcript publicly.
Trump Jr. declined to speak voluntarily to Mueller, according to the Mueller report, and the special counsel did not seek to subpoena him.
Trump Jr.'s testimony has been scrutinized for how he described his conversations in the lead-up to the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting, in which he said that he only talked to Kushner and former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort about the meeting where a Russian lawyer was offering dirt on the Hillary Clinton campaign.
"Was there anyone else?" Trump Jr. was asked.
"No, not to my recollection," he responded.
But in the Mueller report, the special counsel wrote that Trump Jr. announced at a morning meeting of top campaign and Trump family members "he had a lead on negative information about the Clinton Foundation" in the days before the Trump Tower meeting. Rick Gates, Manafort's former deputy who was charged and pleaded guilty in the special counsel's investigation, told Mueller's team about the discussion.
The Mueller report: A catalog of 77 Trump team lies and falsehoods
Trump Jr. could also face questions about the Trump Tower Moscow project that Trump's former attorney Michael Cohen worked on in 2015 and 2016. Trump Jr. was the only one of Trump's children who has testified before Congress about the project.
Mueller's report says that Cohen testified he had discussed the project on multiple occasions with Trump Jr.
"Cohen also recalled briefing Donald Trump Jr. in the spring -- a conversation that Cohen said was not 'idle chit chat' because Trump Tower Moscow was potentially a $1 billion deal," the report says.
CNN's Kaitlan Collins contributed to this report.
By Kara Scannell, Jeremy Herb and Manu Raju, CNN
Updated 6:33 PM ET, Wed May 8, 2019
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Source: CNN
Trump Jr. subpoenaed by GOP-controlled Senate committee 01:39
Washington (CNN)The Senate Intelligence Committee has subpoenaed Donald Trump Jr. for him to return and testify again, and the committee is now at a standoff with President Donald Trump's eldest son, according to sources familiar with the matter.
One option Trump Jr. is considering in response to the subpoena is to invoke his Fifth Amendment rights, and another is just to not appear at all, according to one source. The subpoena from the Republican-led Senate Intelligence panel is believed to be the first issued to one of Trump's family members.
Discussions for Trump Jr.'s testimony began several weeks ago before special counsel Robert Mueller's report was released, the sources say. Trump Jr.'s team resisted giving testimony, in part, because the findings of the Mueller report were still not known.
Trump invokes executive privilege over Mueller report
During the negotiations, the idea to use written questions and answers was floated, and at another time it was proposed that Trump Jr. sit for an untranscribed interview, according to one source.
The subpoena for Trump Jr.'s testimony marks an escalation of the Senate Intelligence Committee's probe into Russian election interreference. The panel's investigation, led by GOP Sen. Richard Burr of North Carolina, has been running for more than two years, and the committee has interviewed many of the same witnesses who spoke to Mueller's team. The committee has recently begun re-interviewing witnesses, including Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, who appeared for a second time earlier this year.
A source close to Trump Jr. said in a statement Wednesday that when Trump Jr. testified in 2017, there was an agreement "that he would only have to come in and testify a single time as long as he was willing to stay for as long as they'd like, which Don did."
"Don continues to cooperate by producing documents and is willing to answer written questions, but no lawyer would ever agree to allow their client to participate in what is an obvious PR stunt from a so-called 'Republican' senator too cowardly to stand up to his boss Mark Warner and the rest of the resistance Democrats on the committee," the source said.
Trump Jr.'s position on testifying again hardened after the Mueller report was released, according to one of the sources. The report stated that the special counsel's team explored charging Trump Jr. and other campaign officials with campaign finance violations for the meeting they took with a Russian lawyer offering dirt on Hillary Clinton in 2016 but ultimately declined because they could not place a value on the materials offered and could not establish Trump Jr. knew he might be violating the law. Mueller's team also did not establish that there was a conspiracy between Russians and members of the Trump campaign, which Trump allies have used to embolden their position that the investigation was a "witch hunt."
Axios first reported the subpoena.
There are multiple issues that the Senate panel is likely interested in asking Trump Jr. about, as he's one of the witnesses that the committee's top Democrat, Sen. Mark Warner, has suggested should return to the committee for additional questioning.
Michael Cohen called himself 'a man all alone' ahead of imprisonment, recording shows
Trump Jr. has already testified under oath in 2017 before both the House and Senate intelligence committees and the Senate Judiciary Committee. The Senate Judiciary Committee released the transcript publicly.
Trump Jr. declined to speak voluntarily to Mueller, according to the Mueller report, and the special counsel did not seek to subpoena him.
Trump Jr.'s testimony has been scrutinized for how he described his conversations in the lead-up to the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting, in which he said that he only talked to Kushner and former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort about the meeting where a Russian lawyer was offering dirt on the Hillary Clinton campaign.
"Was there anyone else?" Trump Jr. was asked.
"No, not to my recollection," he responded.
But in the Mueller report, the special counsel wrote that Trump Jr. announced at a morning meeting of top campaign and Trump family members "he had a lead on negative information about the Clinton Foundation" in the days before the Trump Tower meeting. Rick Gates, Manafort's former deputy who was charged and pleaded guilty in the special counsel's investigation, told Mueller's team about the discussion.
The Mueller report: A catalog of 77 Trump team lies and falsehoods
Trump Jr. could also face questions about the Trump Tower Moscow project that Trump's former attorney Michael Cohen worked on in 2015 and 2016. Trump Jr. was the only one of Trump's children who has testified before Congress about the project.
Mueller's report says that Cohen testified he had discussed the project on multiple occasions with Trump Jr.
"Cohen also recalled briefing Donald Trump Jr. in the spring -- a conversation that Cohen said was not 'idle chit chat' because Trump Tower Moscow was potentially a $1 billion deal," the report says.
CNN's Kaitlan Collins contributed to this report.
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Senate Intelligence Committee subpoenas Donald Trump Jr.
By Kara Scannell, Jeremy Herb and Manu Raju, CNN
Updated 6:33 PM ET, Wed May 8, 2019
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Source: CNN
Trump Jr. subpoenaed by GOP-controlled Senate committee 01:39
Washington (CNN)The Senate Intelligence Committee has subpoenaed Donald Trump Jr. for him to return and testify again, and the committee is now at a standoff with President Donald Trump's eldest son, according to sources familiar with the matter.
One option Trump Jr. is considering in response to the subpoena is to invoke his Fifth Amendment rights, and another is just to not appear at all, according to one source. The subpoena from the Republican-led Senate Intelligence panel is believed to be the first issued to one of Trump's family members.
Discussions for Trump Jr.'s testimony began several weeks ago before special counsel Robert Mueller's report was released, the sources say. Trump Jr.'s team resisted giving testimony, in part, because the findings of the Mueller report were still not known.
Trump invokes executive privilege over Mueller report
During the negotiations, the idea to use written questions and answers was floated, and at another time it was proposed that Trump Jr. sit for an untranscribed interview, according to one source.
The subpoena for Trump Jr.'s testimony marks an escalation of the Senate Intelligence Committee's probe into Russian election interreference. The panel's investigation, led by GOP Sen. Richard Burr of North Carolina, has been running for more than two years, and the committee has interviewed many of the same witnesses who spoke to Mueller's team. The committee has recently begun re-interviewing witnesses, including Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, who appeared for a second time earlier this year.
A source close to Trump Jr. said in a statement Wednesday that when Trump Jr. testified in 2017, there was an agreement "that he would only have to come in and testify a single time as long as he was willing to stay for as long as they'd like, which Don did."
"Don continues to cooperate by producing documents and is willing to answer written questions, but no lawyer would ever agree to allow their client to participate in what is an obvious PR stunt from a so-called 'Republican' senator too cowardly to stand up to his boss Mark Warner and the rest of the resistance Democrats on the committee," the source said.
Trump Jr.'s position on testifying again hardened after the Mueller report was released, according to one of the sources. The report stated that the special counsel's team explored charging Trump Jr. and other campaign officials with campaign finance violations for the meeting they took with a Russian lawyer offering dirt on Hillary Clinton in 2016 but ultimately declined because they could not place a value on the materials offered and could not establish Trump Jr. knew he might be violating the law. Mueller's team also did not establish that there was a conspiracy between Russians and members of the Trump campaign, which Trump allies have used to embolden their position that the investigation was a "witch hunt."
Axios first reported the subpoena.
There are multiple issues that the Senate panel is likely interested in asking Trump Jr. about, as he's one of the witnesses that the committee's top Democrat, Sen. Mark Warner, has suggested should return to the committee for additional questioning.
Michael Cohen called himself 'a man all alone' ahead of imprisonment, recording shows
Trump Jr. has already testified under oath in 2017 before both the House and Senate intelligence committees and the Senate Judiciary Committee. The Senate Judiciary Committee released the transcript publicly.
Trump Jr. declined to speak voluntarily to Mueller, according to the Mueller report, and the special counsel did not seek to subpoena him.
Trump Jr.'s testimony has been scrutinized for how he described his conversations in the lead-up to the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting, in which he said that he only talked to Kushner and former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort about the meeting where a Russian lawyer was offering dirt on the Hillary Clinton campaign.
"Was there anyone else?" Trump Jr. was asked.
"No, not to my recollection," he responded.
But in the Mueller report, the special counsel wrote that Trump Jr. announced at a morning meeting of top campaign and Trump family members "he had a lead on negative information about the Clinton Foundation" in the days before the Trump Tower meeting. Rick Gates, Manafort's former deputy who was charged and pleaded guilty in the special counsel's investigation, told Mueller's team about the discussion.
The Mueller report: A catalog of 77 Trump team lies and falsehoods
Trump Jr. could also face questions about the Trump Tower Moscow project that Trump's former attorney Michael Cohen worked on in 2015 and 2016. Trump Jr. was the only one of Trump's children who has testified before Congress about the project.
Mueller's report says that Cohen testified he had discussed the project on multiple occasions with Trump Jr.
"Cohen also recalled briefing Donald Trump Jr. in the spring -- a conversation that Cohen said was not 'idle chit chat' because Trump Tower Moscow was potentially a $1 billion deal," the report says.
CNN's Kaitlan Collins contributed to this report.
Donald Trump Jr. 早就有备无患了。
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特朗普不是说得很明白么。
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Senate Intelligence Committee subpoenas Donald Trump Jr.
By Kara Scannell, Jeremy Herb and Manu Raju, CNN
Updated 6:33 PM ET, Wed May 8, 2019
Now PlayingTrump Jr. subpoenaed...
Source: CNN
Trump Jr. subpoenaed by GOP-controlled Senate committee 01:39
Washington (CNN)The Senate Intelligence Committee has subpoenaed Donald Trump Jr. for him to return and testify again, and the committee is now at a standoff with President Donald Trump's eldest son, according to sources familiar with the matter.
One option Trump Jr. is considering in response to the subpoena is to invoke his Fifth Amendment rights, and another is just to not appear at all, according to one source. The subpoena from the Republican-led Senate Intelligence panel is believed to be the first issued to one of Trump's family members.
Discussions for Trump Jr.'s testimony began several weeks ago before special counsel Robert Mueller's report was released, the sources say. Trump Jr.'s team resisted giving testimony, in part, because the findings of the Mueller report were still not known.
Trump invokes executive privilege over Mueller report
During the negotiations, the idea to use written questions and answers was floated, and at another time it was proposed that Trump Jr. sit for an untranscribed interview, according to one source.
The subpoena for Trump Jr.'s testimony marks an escalation of the Senate Intelligence Committee's probe into Russian election interreference. The panel's investigation, led by GOP Sen. Richard Burr of North Carolina, has been running for more than two years, and the committee has interviewed many of the same witnesses who spoke to Mueller's team. The committee has recently begun re-interviewing witnesses, including Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, who appeared for a second time earlier this year.
A source close to Trump Jr. said in a statement Wednesday that when Trump Jr. testified in 2017, there was an agreement "that he would only have to come in and testify a single time as long as he was willing to stay for as long as they'd like, which Don did."
"Don continues to cooperate by producing documents and is willing to answer written questions, but no lawyer would ever agree to allow their client to participate in what is an obvious PR stunt from a so-called 'Republican' senator too cowardly to stand up to his boss Mark Warner and the rest of the resistance Democrats on the committee," the source said.
Trump Jr.'s position on testifying again hardened after the Mueller report was released, according to one of the sources. The report stated that the special counsel's team explored charging Trump Jr. and other campaign officials with campaign finance violations for the meeting they took with a Russian lawyer offering dirt on Hillary Clinton in 2016 but ultimately declined because they could not place a value on the materials offered and could not establish Trump Jr. knew he might be violating the law. Mueller's team also did not establish that there was a conspiracy between Russians and members of the Trump campaign, which Trump allies have used to embolden their position that the investigation was a "witch hunt."
Axios first reported the subpoena.
There are multiple issues that the Senate panel is likely interested in asking Trump Jr. about, as he's one of the witnesses that the committee's top Democrat, Sen. Mark Warner, has suggested should return to the committee for additional questioning.
Michael Cohen called himself 'a man all alone' ahead of imprisonment, recording shows
Trump Jr. has already testified under oath in 2017 before both the House and Senate intelligence committees and the Senate Judiciary Committee. The Senate Judiciary Committee released the transcript publicly.
Trump Jr. declined to speak voluntarily to Mueller, according to the Mueller report, and the special counsel did not seek to subpoena him.
Trump Jr.'s testimony has been scrutinized for how he described his conversations in the lead-up to the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting, in which he said that he only talked to Kushner and former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort about the meeting where a Russian lawyer was offering dirt on the Hillary Clinton campaign.
"Was there anyone else?" Trump Jr. was asked.
"No, not to my recollection," he responded.
But in the Mueller report, the special counsel wrote that Trump Jr. announced at a morning meeting of top campaign and Trump family members "he had a lead on negative information about the Clinton Foundation" in the days before the Trump Tower meeting. Rick Gates, Manafort's former deputy who was charged and pleaded guilty in the special counsel's investigation, told Mueller's team about the discussion.
The Mueller report: A catalog of 77 Trump team lies and falsehoods
Trump Jr. could also face questions about the Trump Tower Moscow project that Trump's former attorney Michael Cohen worked on in 2015 and 2016. Trump Jr. was the only one of Trump's children who has testified before Congress about the project.
Mueller's report says that Cohen testified he had discussed the project on multiple occasions with Trump Jr.
"Cohen also recalled briefing Donald Trump Jr. in the spring -- a conversation that Cohen said was not 'idle chit chat' because Trump Tower Moscow was potentially a $1 billion deal," the report says.
CNN's Kaitlan Collins contributed to this report.
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