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MSNBC reporting that NYT has just broken that Junior has struck a deal with Senate Intel for "limited" testimony. The newsfeed is reporting this too, but no written story from the Times yet. Will post asap. Developing story.
2-Donald Trump. Jr, has made a deal with Senate Intel for 'limited', private testimony. #TuesdayThoughts
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3-"The compromise was an appearance by Mr. Trump in the middle of June, with questions limited to about a half-dozen topics, with the time no longer than two to four hours, according to a person briefed. Another person, who would not be identified, contested that the scope was of
4-"the topics had been limited.A spokeswoman for Mr. Burr declined to comment.The move by the younger Mr. Trump’s associates was straight out of his father’s playbook — set the terms of the debate at the most extreme end of the discussion by saying he would not appear,
5-"then cut a deal and look gracious. The agreement provides Mr. Burr with an off-ramp from the confrontation. If the younger Mr. Trump had refused to appear, the chairman would have faced a painful choice between initiating contempt of Congress proceedings against the
6-"president’s eldest son and undercutting the independence of his two-year investigation of Russian election interference by letting him defy him." ~NYT
