--- title: Donald Trump Jr., Paul Manafort to Testify Before Senate description: Donald Trump Jr. and his father's campaign manager Paul Manafort will testify next week in front of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary canonical: https://time.com/4865687/donald-trump-jr-paul-manafort-senate-judiciary-russia/ author: Aric Jenkins article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-07-19T22:32:59.000Z article:modified_time: 2023-12-13T05:38:04.000Z article:section: Politics og:title: Donald Trump Jr. and Paul Manafort to Testify Before Senate og:description: Will they accept the invitations? og:url: https://time.com/4865687/donald-trump-jr-paul-manafort-senate-judiciary-russia/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5eca12ca6f53e450/6988d5508fd2ee3168357ef4/trump-jr-elevator.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3016 og:image:height: 1697 og:image:alt: Political And Business Visitors At Trump Tower During President-Elect's Transition To The White House og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Donald Trump Jr. and Paul Manafort to Testify Before Senate twitter:description: Will they accept the invitations? twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5eca12ca6f53e450/6988d5508fd2ee3168357ef4/trump-jr-elevator.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Donald Trump Jr. and Paul Manafort Will Testify Before the Senate Judiciary Committee > Sponsored content. 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Justin Lane—Pool via Bloomberg/Getty Images by [Aric Jenkins](https://time.com/author/aric-jenkins/) ## Aric Jenkins Updated: Dec 13, 2023 5:38 AM UTCPublished: Jul 19, 2017 10:32 PM UTC Donald Trump Jr. and his father’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort will testify next week in front of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary regarding [Russia’s alleged influence on the 2016 presidential election](http://time.com/4826603/russia-fake-news-us-election-meddling/), the committee [announced Wednesday.](https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/meetings/oversight-of-the-foreign-agents-registration-act-and-attempts-to-influence-us-elections-lessons-learned-from-current-and-prior-administrations) The hearing, originally set for July 19, has been rescheduled to July 26 after [Trump Jr.’s admission](http://time.com/4855690/donald-trump-jr-emails-russian-lawyer/) that he, Manafort and President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner took a meeting with a Russian lawyer last June in hopes of gaining damaging information about Hillary Clinton ahead of the election. Should Trump Jr. and Manafort accept the calls and attend the testimony, they will almost certainly be asked by the panel about their involvement with the meeting, which is the [most significant evidence to date](http://time.com/4858423/donald-trump-donald-jr-russia-meeting-interview/) that the Trump campaign welcomed help from the Russian government to win the U.S. election. Trump Jr. and Manafort have confirmed they have received the invitations, [according to ABC](https://twitter.com/JTSantucci/status/887798149850562560), and are currently reviewing them. Neither have accepted them at this time of writing. Kushner, meanwhile, has agreed to appear before the Senate Intelligence Committee in a closer-door session on July 24, his attorney Abbe Lowell told TIME in a statement. “As Mr. Kushner has been saying since March, he has been and is prepared to voluntarily cooperate and provide whatever information he has on the investigations to Congress,” Lowell said. “Working with and being responsive to the schedules of the committees, we have arranged Mr. Kushner’s interview with the Senate for July 24\. He will continue to cooperate and appreciates the opportunity to assist in putting this matter to rest.” _With reporting by Alana Abramson._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4865687/donald-trump-jr-paul-manafort-senate-judiciary-russia/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4865687/donald-trump-jr-paul-manafort-senate-judiciary-russia/"},"headline":"Donald Trump Jr. and Paul Manafort Will Testify Before the Senate Judiciary Committee","datePublished":"2017-07-19T22:32:59.000Z","dateModified":"2023-12-13T05:38:04.000Z","description":"They will almost certainly be asked about their meeting with a Russian lawyer last June","url":"https://time.com/4865687/donald-trump-jr-paul-manafort-senate-judiciary-russia/","keywords":["White House","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5eca12ca6f53e450/6988d5508fd2ee3168357ef4/trump-jr-elevator.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Aric Jenkins","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/aric-jenkins/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5eca12ca6f53e450/6988d5508fd2ee3168357ef4/trump-jr-elevator.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Political And Business Visitors At Trump Tower During President-Elect's Transition To The White House","caption":"Political And Business Visitors At Trump Tower During President-Elect's Transition To The White House","creditText":"Justin Lane—Pool via Bloomberg/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/white-house/","name":"White House"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4865687/donald-trump-jr-paul-manafort-senate-judiciary-russia/","name":"Donald Trump Jr. and Paul Manafort Will Testify Before the Senate Judiciary Committee"}}]}] ```