Trump Jr., Manafort, Trump campaign hand over thousands of documents in Russia probe

Donald Trump Jr., Donald Trump, and Ivanka Trump.
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Earlier this month, the Trump campaign, Donald Trump Jr., and Trump's former campaign manager Paul Manafort gave the Senate Judiciary Committee thousands of pages of documents as part of the panel's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, committee spokesman George Hartmann told Bloomberg on Tuesday.

The committee requested all documents regarding any attempt to gain information on Hillary Clinton from the Russian government, including material having to do with the meeting Trump Jr., Manafort, and President Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner had with a Russian lawyer in June 2016. The Trump associates were told to start handing over the information by Aug. 2, and that's when the Trump campaign sent over 20,000 pages of documents and Manafort handed over 400 pages, including his foreign-advocacy filing.

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Catherine Garcia, The Week US

Catherine Garcia is night editor for TheWeek.com. Her writing and reporting has appeared in Entertainment Weekly and EW.com, The New York Times, The Book of Jezebel, and other publications. A Southern California native, Catherine is a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.