Democrats long suspected that Trump Jr. and then-candidate Trump communicated about the Trump tower meeting. New phone records indicate that this though was patently false.
Donald Trump Jr. took the opportunity to call out media darling Adam Schiff as another Russian collusion narrative turns to dust.
According to Fox News:
Donald Trump Jr. late Thursday laid into House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., after reports appeared to vindicate the younger Trump of Democratic suspicions that he made phone calls to President Trump around the time of the Trump Tower meeting with Russians in June 2016.
Senate investigators obtained phone records which appeared to show that Trump Jr. had actually spoken to two longtime Trump family friends – Brian France, the chief executive of Nascar, and the investor Howard Lorber, the New York Times reported, citing two people briefed on the matter.
Has anyone heard from Adam Schiff?
I imagine he’s busy leaking other confidential info from the House Intelligence Committee to change the subject?!? #FullOfSchiff https://t.co/7CC6k0CjlJ
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) February 1, 2019
“Has anyone heard from Adam Schiff?” Trump Jr. tweeted. “I imagine he’s busy leaking other confidential info from the House Intelligence Committee to change the subject?!?”
Democrats have long suspected the calls were between Trump Jr. and his then-candidate father regarding a meeting with Russians offering dirt on Hillary Clinton during the 2016 campaign.
President Trump also used the opportunity to call out the Dems as the new information emerged.