Trump asked Senate Republicans to end Russia election interference investigation: report

[Arkansas Granny]

President Trump reportedly pressed multiple Senate Republicans to end the Senate Intelligence Committee’s investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election, according to a new report.

Multiple lawmakers and aides told The New York Times that Trump asked several top Republicans, including committee chairman Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.), Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) to end the investigation quickly.

Trump’s requests came over the summer as special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian election interference ramped up.

A White House spokesman told the Times that Trump has “at no point…attempted to apply undue influence on committee members.”
The U.S. intelligence community concluded in a report made public in January that the Kremlin sought to disrupt the 2016 election and sway the race in Trump's favor, prompting a number of investigations by House and Senate committees and special counsel Robert Mueller.

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/362708-trump-asked-senate-republicans-to-end-russia-election-interference

[KPN]

1. So will Burr, McConnell and Blunt lie

to the FBI too?

[The Genealogist]

2. I'd not put it above them

I wouldn't trust my deplorable senator Blunt any further than I could throw him.

[Arkansas Granny]

3. Do you mean Mueller or McConnell?

[KPN]

4. Haha. Early morning here -- still shaking

off the cobwebs. Thanks -- I'll correct it.

[Blue_Tires]

5. Now why would Trump be pressuring Congress and the FBI to end an investigation

into a scandal that "never existed", according to the Intercept and TYT??

[Arkansas Granny]

6. Hmmm. Good question.