Trump-Russia dossier owner faces senators, Trump Jr still a no-show

The co-founder of a Washington opposition research firm that produced a dossier of salacious allegations involving President Donald Trump has met for hours with congressional investigators in a closed-door appearance that stretched into the evening, the Guardian reports. Glenn Simpson’s lawyer, Josh Levy, emerged from the day-long private appearance with the Senate judiciary committee and said his client had “told Congress the truth and cleared the record on many matters of interest” Leaders of the judiciary committee said last month that they were trying to get Donald Trump Jr and former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort to make similar appearances. However, no such interviews have taken place. Donald Jr has attracted scrutiny for accepting a June 2016 meeting invitation with Russians at which he expected to receive damaging information about Hillary Clinton. Levy noted that Simpson appeared voluntarily. The sheer length of Simpson’s appearance — far longer, for instance, than Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, spent earlier this summer before Senate and House intelligence committees — reflected the intrigue on Capitol Hill surrounding the dossier and the origins of the document.