I have no intention of reading Junior's full testimony from May of last year, but if I'm not mistaken, he had already confessed that his original statement about the meeting with Veselnitskaya, et al., that his father instructed him to give, was a lie. If so, and he told something more truthful to Congress, that would not count against Trump Sr as suborning perjury. Lying to newspapers is not illegal. Lying to Congress is. There may have been other instances, however, because it's a pretty sure bet that he never did anything without his father telling him to do it.
November, 2018
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.Rep. Jackie Speier (D-Calif.), a member of the House Intelligence Committee, told CNN Friday she believes Donald Trump Jr. lied to the committee on at least two occasions, which would constitute a felony.
“I don’t really want to go into it at this point, but I think there’s at least two occasions where he lied to the committee,” she said when asked what the lies were regarding.
“In part, it is somewhat related to documents that we never were able to subpoena because the Republicans were really the puppets of the president in terms of trying to protect him and not being the independent investigative authority that we should have been looking at the issue,” Speier added.
Trump could face up to five years in prison if he lied in his testimony to the committee.
The Hill
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