Republicans On House Intel Are Refusing To Ask Twitter For Private Messages
Daily Beast report reveals that Devin Nunes and other GOP members of House Intelligence Committee are blocking attempts to have Twitter hand over private messages of Trump campaign associates.
The Republican obstruction of the Trump-Russia investigation has reached new lows.
According to a new report by The Daily Beast, Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee are blocking efforts to have Twitter hand over the private messages of Trump campaign officials.
You will remember that it has been reported that both Donald Trump Jr. and Roger Stone engaged in private Twitter messages with WikiLeaks during the campaign.
As the report notes, “It’s the latest sign that the Republicans on the hyper-factionalized committee are willing to focus on anything but potential collusion between Donald Trump and the Kremlin in the 2016 election. Trump’s associates tend to share their boss’ love for Twitter and, like many users of the social network, have been known to use direct messaging for sensitive communications.”
Democrats on the committee have grown frustrated over the willingness of Republicans to trust everything that witnesses tell the committee without verifying that the testimony is truthful.
“Democrats who want to subpoena Twitter for the private messages of Trumpworld figures are operating on the theory that the communications would either reveal substantive discussion of election machinations tied to Russia or vindicate the denials of actual and potential Trump-camp witnesses. But the Republicans have sat on the requests instead of fulfilling them or denying them outright,” The Daily Beast continued.
Read the full Daily Beast report here.
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