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Aug 15, 2020, 6 tweets

A bit of the lede from the LA Times pc today @ the GOP run Senate Intel Committee's bi-partisan letter to DOJ asking them to further investigate Bannon, Jr, Kushner, Prince, Hicks & Manafort for lying to Congress:
#LockThemAllUp
latimes.com/politics/story…

2-"The Senate Intelligence Committee has sent a bipartisan letter to the Justice Department asking federal prosecutors to investigate Stephen K. Bannon, a former Trump confidante, for potentially lying to lawmakers during its investigation of Russian interference in the

3-"2016 presidential election. The letter, a copy of which was reviewed by The Times, was signed by the panel’s then-chairman, Republican Sen. Richard M. Burr, and its ranking Democrat, Sen. Mark Warner.

4-"It also raised concerns about testimony provided by family members and confidants of President Trump that appeared to contradict information provided by a former deputy campaign chairman to Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller III.

5-"Those it identified as providing such conflicting testimony were the president’s son Donald Trump Jr., his son-in-law Jared Kushner, former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and former White House Communications Director Hope Hicks. …

6-"It is not clear what action the Justice Department has taken on the referral. Kerri Kupec, a Justice Department spokeswoman, declined to comment.” ~LA Times

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