The U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee on Wednesday subpoenaed Donald Trump, Jr. to answer questions about his previous testimony before Senate investigators relating to the Russia investigation, prompting two prominent Alabama Republicans to leap to Trump, Jr.’s defense.
“Enough is enough,” Congressman Bradley Byrne (AL-01) told Yellowhammer News. “Despite spending millions and countless hours on an investigation that found NOTHING, some want to keep this nonsense going. There are real issues in our country and this whole sideshow is a waste of time. Let’s move on!”
Supporters of the president have pointed out that “Don Jr.” was already cleared by FBI special counsel Robert Mueller after an intensive two year investigation, plus prior supplemental Congressional hearings.
Former White House Director of Message Strategy Cliff Sims told Yellowhammer News, “Don testified in front of Senate Intel for nine hours, stayed until they ran out of questions, produced tens of thousands of documents, and was cleared by the Mueller probe.”
“At one point is it enough? No private citizen should have to endure this level of harassment. It’s time to move on,” Sims emphasized.
It’s bad enough that @TheDemocrats won’t give up even after the Mueller flop. Now we’ve got supposed Republicans like @SenatorBurr disgracing themselves, too. @DonaldJTrumpJr was cleared by Mueller. He testified for 20+ hours. Produced 30k+ docs. MOVE ON. https://t.co/wGkWtMNf4P
— Cliff Sims (@Cliff_Sims) May 8, 2019
This is reportedly the first congressional subpoena of one of President Trump’s children.
The oldest of Trump’s children has previously produced nearly 30,000 documents to this committee alone. He has testified two additional times on the same topics before other congressional committees, in addition to his previous testimony in front of the Senate Intelligence Committee. In total, that amounted to more than 22 hours of testimony and over 1,000 pages of transcript.
Sean Ross is a staff writer for Yellowhammer News. You can follow him on Twitter @sean_yhn
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