2016 ELECTION/DEMS/DONALD JR/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley on Tuesday [5-29-18] pushed back against a Democrat who has accused Donald Trump Jr. of potentially lying in his testimony to the committee, and suggested a different witness may have lied to the panel instead. Grassley, an Iowa Republican, sent a letter to Sen. Chris Coons on Tuesday responding to the Delaware Democrat’s letter last week, which charged that President Donald Trump’s eldest son may have ‘provided false testimony’ to the committee and urged Grassley to bring Trump Jr. back to the committee to testify publicly. Coons suggested Trump lied in his September 2017 testimony when he told the committee that foreigners did not ‘offer or provide assistance’ to the Trump campaign and he did not seek any foreign assistance. He pointed to a recent New York Times report that revealed Trump Jr. met in the months before the 2016 election with George Nader, an emissary for Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, and an Israeli social media specialist offering help to the Trump campaign. But Grassley defended Trump Jr., arguing that Coons was comparing committee testimony to news reports and suggesting that it may not be contradictory anyway…Grassley also raised the prospect that Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson may have lied in his testimony to the committee, comparing Simpson’s statements to Trump Jr.’s and asking Coons what action he wanted to take with regard to Simpson’s testimony.”
-Jeremy Herb and Manu Raju, “Grassley defends Trump Jr. testimony about foreign contacts,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, May 29, 2018 4:49 pm