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Fri Jul 31, 2020, 02:27 PM Jul 2020

Dems Subpoena Pompeo In Probe Of Senate GOP Biden-Ukraine Disinfo Campaign

Source: Talking Points Memo

House Foreign Affairs Committee chairman Rep. Eliot Engel (D-NY) issued a subpoena to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Friday, demanding reams of documents that the State Department has already provided to Senate Republicans who are seeking damaging information about Vice President Joe Biden.

Sens. Ron Johnson (R-WI) and Chuck Grassley (R-IA) have been probing long-discredited allegations that Biden abused his position to help his son avoid a Ukrainian investigation.

In so doing, the State Department under Pompeo has replied promptly to the Senate GOPers requests for documents and information.

Engel, in the subpoena, is demanding copies of the documents that Pompeo provided to the Senate, as well as “internal State Department correspondence about responding to Congress.”

Read more: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/dems-subpoena-pompeo-in-probe-of-senate-gop-biden-ukraine-disinfo-campaign

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