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Hey, remember all the way back to 2017, when we thought, "Gee, isn't it kind of weird that on the topic of all things Russia, every Trump campaign associate has lied 100% of the time? Well, that's also what the bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee thought.
Anyway, I'm sure Barr has put this on his to-do list and will get around to it eventually.
Senate committee made criminal referral of Trump Jr., Bannon, Kushner, two others to federal prosecutors
Anyway, I'm sure Barr has put this on his to-do list and will get around to it eventually.
WASHINGTON — The Republican and Democratic leaders of the Senate Intelligence Committee made criminal referrals of Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner, Steve Bannon, Erik Prince and Sam Clovis to federal prosecutors in 2019, passing along their suspicions that the men may have misled the committee during their testimony, an official familiar with the matter told NBC News.
The official confirmed reports in the Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post, which reported on the matter last week. A criminal referral to the Justice Department means Congress believes a matter warrants investigation for potential violation of the law.
The committee detailed its concerns in a letter to the U.S. attorney's office in Washington, D.C., in June 2019, the official said.
The Post reported that the letter was divided into two sections. One named those suspected of making false statements, The Post said: Bannon; Clovis, a co-chair of the Trump campaign in 2016; and Prince, a private security contractor.
A second section raised concerns about the testimony of other witnesses, including Trump Jr. and Kushner, whose statements were contradicted by Trump campaign aide Richard Gates, although it did not pointedly make a false-statements allegation, The Post reported.
Senate committee made criminal referral of Trump Jr., Bannon, Kushner, two others to federal prosecutors