Russia probe puts Trump Jr. in trouble

The 41-year-old son of U.S. President Donald Trump has been ordered to testify before a Senate Intelligence panel on the Russia probe.Trump jr was subpoena as the White House refused to release material on investigations into the president.
        It was the first known legal summons issued to a member of the president’s family to force testimony in the ongoing investigation. It comes after special counsel Robert Mueller declined to accuse Trump’s 2016 campaign of criminal conspiracy to collude with the Russians. The Russia probe has plunged Washington into turmoil. A day after the top Republican in Congress called the Russia probe “case closed,” Trump’s conflict with his Democratic opponents escalated to new heights as a House panel voted to hold the nation’s Attorney General Bill Barr in contempt for refusing to turn over key documents. Following a day of drama that included Trump asserting executive privilege for the first time in his presidency, the Republican-led Senate Intelligence Committee took the surprise step of issuing a subpoena to Donald Trump Jr to testify as part of its investigation into Russian election interference, US media reported. Trump Jr has testified voluntarily in private once to the committee, and was peppered with questions about a June 9, 2016 meeting at Trump Tower in New York that he and other campaign officials had with a Russian lawyer who had offered them dirt on Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.

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