Having a reputation as a colossal moron helped Donald Trump Jr. escape being charged by Robert Mueller, despite his starring role in the infamous Trump Tower meeting—a rendezvous he helped arrange after being promised dirt on Hillary Clinton, hypothetically tantalizing information he loved the idea of deploying “especially later in the summer” of 2016. Yet it appears his excitement over avoiding prosecution by the special counsel—“TOLD YA!!!” he tweeted after the report was released—may have been slightly premature.

NBC News reports that the Republican-controlled Senate Intelligence Committee has subpoenaed Don Jr. to answer questions about supposedly having limited information about the plan to build a Trump Tower in Moscow while his father was running for president. While both he and his sister claim to have barely known anything about the effort—in September 2017, Don Jr. told the Senate Judiciary Committee he was only “peripherally aware” of the project, and this past January told Laura Ingraham, “The reality is this wasn’t a deal”—others say that’s not the case. Trump’s former fixer Michael Cohen, for example, told a House committee in February that he met with the president’s namesake and Ivanka Trump “approximately 10” times to brief them about the Trump Tower plan. Before Cohen and Trump’s relationship hit the skids, Cohen falsely told Congress that the project had been scrapped in January 2016 when, in reality, it was pursued all the way through June 2016. Vladimir Putin, of Russian “sweeping and systematic” election-interference fame, was reportedly set to receive a $50 million penthouse in the tower, in an effort to get in good with the oligarch crowd. According to Mueller’s report, the president authorized the “highly lucrative” project, and remained interested in it until it was dropped.

Before the news of the congressional subpoena—the first known to be issued to any member of Trump’s immediate family—broke on Wednesday, Don Jr. tweeted, “Democrats are not interested in the truth, they just want to keep the Hoax going forever. The games need to stop.” He also called Representative Jerry Nadler a “hack” for protesting an effort to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt. Hopefully he plans to live-tweet his chat with the Senate!

The Trump Organization did not respond to the Hive’s request for comment.

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