“Priebus recalled learning about the June 9 meeting from Fox News host Sean Hannity in late June 2017,” the Mueller report states.
Fox News host Sean Hannity, a close friend of President Donald Trump, knew about and told the White House’s then-chief of staff about the infamous 2016 Trump Tower meeting before it was reported in the media, special counsel Robert Mueller’s redacted report reveals.
Hannity is mentioned in a section of the report, released Thursday, on Trump’s efforts to prevent the disclosure of emails on the June 9,2016 meeting with Trump campaign members. Those at the meeting included Trump’s son Donald Trump Jr., son-in-law Jared Kushner and Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort as well as a Russian lawyer who promised dirt on Hillary Clinton.
The Trump campaign had received a request from the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on documents including a “list and a description of all meetings” involving any individual affiliated with the Trump campaign, Russian government or Russian business interests from June 16,2015, to January 20,2017, the report states.
Trump Organization attorneys found out about the Trump Tower meeting “no later than the first week of June 2017, when they began interviewing the meeting participants,” the report states.
