A looming deadline on Trump tapes has lawmakers thinking subpoena
By Karoun Demirjian June 22 at 6:00 AM
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hus far those requests for the tapes are only requests — and the House Intelligence Committee’s request is the only one carrying a hard deadline. On Tuesday, White House spokesman Sean Spicer said that Trump “will make an announcement on this. I expect it this week. And so when he’s ready to make that announcement, we’ll let you know.”
But despite promises to divulge information about the tapes soon, neither the president nor his lawyer has actually addressed the issue with any finality or additional details, leaving lawmakers to contemplate their next possible steps.
The House and Senate Intelligence Committees have been deploying subpoenas at an unusal pace over the last few weeks, with Senate investigators demanding personal documents and business records from former national security adviser Michael Flynn and House investigators demanding documents, testimony and business records from Flynn and Trump lawyer Michael Cohen. Flynn has turned over some paperwork to both committees.
The committees have issued those bipartisan subpoenas as their probes into alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 election heat up, particularly in the realm of investigating potential collusion between the president’s surrogates and Kremlin officials.
Senate Intelligence Committee chairman Richard Burr (R-N.C.) said this week that “where we’ve utilized (a subpoena), it has been very effective.”
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